Schrei in der Stille

This is conceivably one of the most disturbing films I've seen. It's characters are painfully fragile, and the tone is menacingly dark and corrupted. Still, albeit as depressing as The Tin Drum, this is an excellent film.

The ambiguity defines this webb of many subplots. A splendid cinematography and fall of a boy, step by step from childhood. Difficult to define it, it is more than a horror and maybe a dark trip across near realities comfortable to ignore. Important - the gorgeous cinematography and the inspired performances.

Ok that anyone thought this was funny must mean that they are two years old or that they are mentally slow and cant think. There is alot of people on here who post reviews who cant think. It must be some new disease you get by watching eddie murphy movies like haunted Mansion. This film is beautifully shot and captures the isolation and pain of growing up when you are stuck in the middle of a family crisis. The film is easy to follow and makes perfect sense throughout. There is never anything that is hard to understand or relate to if you have even half a brain. The metaphors with the vampires are very easy to understand. I would say its even something a 12 year old would understand although this film is not for kids. I wont list any details cuz i dont want to spoil it for you but if you enjoy dark films with something more to say that life sucks then this film will touch you and leave you breathless i think. Its one of my favorites and i hope you give it a try. You wont be disappointed.

Really beautiful cinematography here, with the gorgeous billowing waves of amber wheat under azure skies that go on forever. The pacing is slow and the story is ambiguous, but I liked the themes of how the world is perceived as a child, and the inevitable time when the illusions of childhood are set aside. Who are the monsters in life, it seems to ask, the vampires of our horror stories, or people who abuse the powerless and wage war, despite this beautiful world all around them? It's ambitious and artistic, but the myriad subplots in its story didn't quite keep up for me.

The Reflecting Skin is a bizarre and equally disturbing movie-experience combining beautiful cinematography with a really weird and screwed-up story that's viewed from an abused child's peculiar slant on things.

Though not meant for all tastes, The Reflecting Skin is one of those films that's just too odd to be outrightly dismissed.

If you enjoy films that are offbeat, surreal and nightmarish in nature, then here's one whose story and imagery creates a very dark and haunting atmosphere set against the dazzling brightness of rural Idaho in the 1950s.

The innocence of a 9 year-old boy named Seth is stripped away as he closely observes the strange and macabre characters that are around him.

Life for this troubled, young boy living on the outskirts of a small, isolated farm-town is magnified beyond reality into a weird, quasi-fantasy that directly challenges the viewer's idealized notions about the naivety of childhood and the rationality of a child's thinking.

A lot of people will find at this film's conclusion that just too many questions were deliberately left unanswered. This is sure to leave many viewers (as it did with myself) both annoyed and dissatisfied.

But, yet, even though there were a number of places where The Reflecting Skin literally fell flat on its face out of sheer absurdity, the unique strangeness if its overall story is still well-worth a view.