The Reflecting Skin

The Reflecting Skin

★ 6.7IMDb Score
Released:1990-08-28
Duration:95 min
Director:Philip Ridley
Actors:Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser
Production:BBC Film, Fugitive Features, British Screen Productions, National Film Trustee Company, Zenith Entertainment, Award Films International

Overview:

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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