Review of The Reflecting Skin (1990) by Greg P — 29 Jan 2010

I felt everything this movie was supposed to make me feel, down to falling to my knees and screaming at the sky!

Vampire stories and mysterious neighbors and wheat fields and beeping amish women walking by.....the smell of gasoline! it's in everything!

I saw this movie on someone's garage screen, lounging on folding chairs and tripping acid......this is the best David Lynch movie he never made!

Seth and his buddies roam around the wheat fields, where the same people literaly buzz by every day and where there's nothing for adolescents boys to amuse themselves with other than blowing air up bullfrogs' asses and shooting them with a slingshot, dousing creepy neighbor ladies with frog guts!

......or trashing their houses........

Prolly 'cuz Seth's homelife is a bit awry, with his mother abusing his father pretty regularly, his older brother off to war, and the town sheriff snooping around....daddy's past activities warrant'em to keepin' a close eye on!

Seth's family owns the local filling station and to pass the time in between beatings, father likes to read vampire pulp novels and stare out and watch the tumbleweeds n stuff.......meanwhile, there's a car full of greasers in leather pulling in and about, lookin' like they was up to somthin'.......

Seth doesn't mind that his buddies are disappearing one by one and are found dead in numerous places, his brother has returned from the war and starts hookin' up with the vampire lady next door........the same woman he and his friends have been torturing.

When his brother begins to look more sickly than when he arrived, Seth is convinced the lady next door is a vampire and is sucking the life out of him.........

........like she did to the dead angel baby corpse he found in the sticks and has hidden in a box under his bed!

I loved this movie! it's so haunting, you thank the stars you weren't born in a place like that. by the last frame of the movie, I totally understood that kid.....and I was EXTREMELY satisfied with that ending, 'cuz I wanted to scream throughout the second half of the movie! WAY UP!