The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Popularity4.5/5
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Philip Ridley
Cast
Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser
The story
Eight-year-old Seth Dove lives in an isolated Idaho prairie community in the 1950s. The film opens with Seth and his friends, Eben and Kim, playing with a frog Seth has found in the fields. The boys inflate the frog by inserting a reed up its anus and leave it by the side of the road.
Genres
Horror, coming-of-age film, drama film, film noir, horror film, vampire film
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