Knives and Skin Review
A missing young lady shakes up a community in Jennifer Reeder's Tribeca-bound blend of Lynchian spine chiller and secondary school melodic. The vanishing of a young student sends psycho-sexual stun waves through a sluggish Illinois town in author chief Jennifer Reeder's Knives and Skin, a pleasingly unique transitioning spine chiller saturated with grotesque funniness and eccentric women's activist disposition. David Lynch's Twin Peaks is the most evident touchstone for this activity in Midwestern gothic surrealism, nearby realizing gestures to secondary school works of art like Heathers and Carrie and even vintage John Hughes motion pictures. The marvelous state of mind and curve utilization of awfulness tropes likewise review Richard Kelly's irregular religion great Donnie Darko, however Reeder's second element has its very own lot rich, abnormal, unique flavor as well.