What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl’s mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town’s teenage girls—gathering in force until it can no longer be contained. Unfolding in a hallucinatory haze of lushly surreal images, Knives and Skin is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age noir that haunts like a half-remembered dream.
While noir and neon aren’t traditionally my thing, charm might push this into the green for me. Knives and Skins is coated with the visual style of films like Nina Forever and #Horror, filled with a dry, Lynchian mystery.
Knives and Skin will be available in limited theaters and on VOD December 6th, 2019.
