We wouldn’t get Miramax to make this movie. We did it for like a million bucks in the very, very indie way.” ‘Mysterious Skin’Tartan Releasing/courtesy Everett Collection A huge hurdle for ...

Mysterious Skin is a film that will leave viewers in a state of disgust and ... tell if you’re incredibly disgusted or incredibly interested and you will just be still — still to the raw story telling ...

opening narration, Mysterious Skin Over the last decade ... both stories has a cumulative power, it's still Neil's harrowing journey that brings the movie home for me. And credit for that belongs ...

(For some reason, the plummiest lines are given to the ... friend.) Still, for its occasional ponderousness, there is a terrible, terrifying honesty at the core of "Mysterious Skin" that will ...

“Mysterious Skin” concludes on the bittersweet and wordless reunion ... The contrast suggests several ideas that the film wants to impart by way of its conclusion; perhaps the conclusion is regression ...

The consequences posited vary from film to film. Mysterious Skin's approach to abuse and its consequences ... of individuals in the situations they faced as children, and are still facing as adults.

"We're not in Kansas anymore," Neil's friend warns when he arrives in New York, and the off-kilter Wizard of Oz reference suggests that Mysterious Skin is intended to be viewed as a contemporary ...