2016 · horror · thriller
The Neon Demon
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn1h 58m2016
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Our read: The Neon Demon (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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How The Neon Demon feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want hypnotic LA fashion horror about beauty as something genuinely predatory.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if graphic body horror, necrophilia vibes, or Refn coolness leaves you cold.
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