I love this movie so much

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I tried this movie because I saw IMDb list one this day giving this movie a number 1 Foreigner horror movie. The idea of a kid having to fight alone against a vampire is not really original but in a rural setting of United States can end up being interesting. And it was the number 1 movie, again, even outpacing the Spanish The Orphanage (which I totally consider excellent). OK, I should have read the summary better because I didn't know how much wrong I was. This movie is very idiotic, from a logical standpoint. There's way too many important points thrown in the story that leads to absolutely anywhere, and I can't stop thinking "where this is going?". Let me spoil you the fun: the movie is a story of a bunch of pedophiles, running in a black car, kidnapping and killing kids in a remote rural neighborhood. The main character is a 8 years old boy that end up believing that her neighbor is a vampire. He is taunted by the pedophiles, he witness his friend being taken by the gang, but he continues convict that her neighbor, an around thirties lonesome lady, is culprit for all the dead bodies. I know that some people that likes the movie will say that the story is a creative analogy to a little boy imagination in a story of sexual abuse to kids, but the problem is that the main character is too smart to be so blind. The way that the scenes depict the characters forces to not understand why the boy is so attached to his imagination. I can understand that the grown ups doesn't help either, being 1 lunatic worse than the other. On the good side, the movie has a photography very morbid for an always sunny environment which made recall the photography from Texas Chainsaw Massacre (specially for the palette of colors chosen). The score is also strange, because is full of violins and cello, that brings a drama vibe to the scenes that I found it doesn't fit to a thriller story, but it has some poetry on it. Anyway, I really don't understand how people can like a movie that is so non-sensical like this. It begins without any sense and it finish worse. Go figure..

What unadulterated, self-indulgent crap! The acting was simply awful! :( Boy, I wish I could get those precious hours back! I guess the one consolation is that I watched it on Encore Avenue and didn't waste any money renting it.I would like to leave the review at that, but I must write at least ten lines, so here goes.It is a good thing for Viggo Mortensen that he has done some fantastic work since then, or he might have gone the way of Philip Michael Thomas.I generally don't watch movies that show fewer than three stars in the description on my digital guide; this one had no stars, but I simply thought that an oversight. Next time, I'll know what an absence af stars means.

"The Reflecting Skin" is among the most beautiful and elegiac movies I have ever seen.It's dark and depressing film which takes place during 50's.Philip Ridley's full-length debut features many memorable moments for example frog exploding in a torrent of blood and guts,a couple of chirping ladies walking close to Seth and carrying a dead seagull,a gruesome suicide that ended with a burning gas station and the discovery of the mummified baby in the barn.The water plays the major theme in "The Reflecting Skin".The film is extremely poetic with its bleak subject matter of loneliness and mourn.The cinematography of Dick Pope is breathtaking with some moody shots of the fields,rolling hills and big skies.Dreamy and strangely hypnotic "The Reflecting Skin" is an unforgettable trip into sadness and melancholy.9 out of 10.

The Reflecting Skin appears to be a film that is dividing opinions among all those who have seen it. I did really want to like it; but unfortunately the fact is that the film just isn't nearly as good as it could have been, and the result is a stylish mess with a handful of good ideas. The main problem with the film from my point of view is the fact that there's no actual story to it; there's some flow to the plot, but it doesn't seem to have any meaning, which means that the film ends up with only the imagery to lend it any substance; and this isn't enough to keep the film interesting. The film takes place in the middle of a desert sometime during the 1950's. The main character is Seth Dove; a young kid that gets his kicks by exploding frogs and vandalising people's homes. His family harbours some dark secrets, which come to the fore when a neighbourhood kid is killed. Meanwhile, his father's stories of vampires have lead the kid to believe that a woman that lives nearby may be one of the undead.The film is often labelled as a part of the horror genre; but aside from some vague notions of vampirism, the film really isn't horror. I suppose it would be best described as fantasy. The main problem with the film is undoubtedly the poor script, which features terrible dialogue and doesn't properly address many issues; for example, the kid coming to believe that his neighbour is a vampire emerges after a thirty second dialogue between father and son about a vampire book! The film is not helped by the lead character; Seth Dove is not easy to like at all - his actions and mannerisms made me hate the kid. The acting is not particularly good either; lead actor Jeremy Cooper unsurprisingly had only a couple of film credits after this one, while Viggo Mortensen appears before he would go on to mature into a good performer. I do have to admit that the film is not a complete dead-loss; in terms of substance it is, but at least the style of the film is good; director Phillip Radley makes good use of the locations and there are also a handful of good ideas blended into the film. Overall, however, I can't recommend this film.