Knives and Skin
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Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Kate Arrington
- Tim Hopper
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Marika Engelhardt
- James Vincent Meredith
- Marilyn Dodds Frank
- Audrey Francis
- Ty Olwin
- Robert T. Cunningham
- Claire VanDerLinden
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- Dec 4, 2019
Kind of like David Lynch’s High School Musical but nowhere near as much fun as that sounds.
Brian TallericoOct 30, 201967 So consistently off-its-rocker that the weirdness finds a harmony with the mundane, even deadpan trauma at its center. Very fun and strange.
SilentDawnSep 25, 2019Think Nic Refn's THE ICE STORM and you're getting close.
matt lynch - Aug 23, 2019
FrightFest 2019. Wants to be a feminist version of Twin Peaks but fails. If I hear one more male mansplain how this is the most feminist film they’ve ever seen, I’m going to suffocate them in my vagina.
Zoë RoseApr 28, 2020Looks nice and has some good things to say but I just couldn’t jive with this—For second rate great value Twin Peaks meets Rivers Edge fix ill just stick with Riverdale lol. Sorry.
Ian WestDec 17, 2019Visuals ✅ Story 🤔 Direction 💤 Acting 👎 Dialogue 🗑 Care Factor 🤷♂️
MJsays - Dec 31, 2019
The problem isn't just that this is copying the narrative and stylistic rhythms of Twin Peaks at a molecular level, huffing and puffing to effortfully do what comes to David Lynch as natural as breathing. The problem is that this is a Twin Peaks copy made by people whose…
Tim BraytonAug 23, 2019There’s a film that every so often hits you extremely hard, gives you a ton of goosebumps and makes you feel utterly wonderful as the filmmaker has connected with you in the way hundreds of films before have not. The joys of a five star movie, often rare but so very…
coles84Oct 19, 2019Remember Twin Peaks? Remember Twin Peaks season two? Remember when Mark Snow and David Lynch walked off the show for the middle ten episodes and the writers were all like "hey, what is the central quality of a David Lynch TV show?" and the other writers were like "oh it's…
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Metacritic
Dec 27, 2019
It’s entirely too scattered, sacrificing coherence, loaded down with characters who are more clutter than carriers of plot and substance.
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
Dec 5, 2019
This movie rocks.
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
Dec 5, 2019
It is manifestly unfair to compare the work of a near-universally admired auteur to an odd, ambitious independent film, but Knives and Skin owes so much to David Lynch, particularly “Twin Peaks,” that it feels wrong to pretend it exists in a vacuum.
Ben Kenigsberg
The New York Times
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is Knives and Skin (2019)?
The movie is 1hr 51min long.
What's Knives and Skin (2019) about?
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.
Who's the cast of Knives and Skin (2019)?
- Kate Arrington as Renee Darlington
- Tim Hopper as Dan Kitzmiller
- Tony Fitzpatrick as Principal Markum
- Marika Engelhardt as Lisa Harper
- James Vincent Meredith as Doug Darlington
- Marilyn Dodds Frank as Gramma Miriam Kitzmiller
- Audrey Francis as Lynn Kitzmiller
- Ty Olwin as Andy Kitzmiller
- Robert T. Cunningham as Jesse Darlington
- Claire VanDerLinden as Mousy Freshman
Who's the director behind Knives and Skin (2019)?
Jennifer Reeder directed Knives and Skin (2019).
Who produced Knives and Skin (2019)?
Brian Hieggelke and Jan Hieggelke produced Knives and Skin (2019).
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