The Reflecting Skin
Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally.
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A haunting, ambiguous meditation on childhood trauma and the corruption of innocence set against a bleak 1950s rural landscape where supernatural dread masks deeper horrors.
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
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