The Reflecting Skin

The Reflecting Skin

Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally.

1990•1h 35m•6.7/10

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Ratings

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6.7/10(217)

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

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Production

BBC Film, Fugitive Features, British Screen Productions, National Film Trustee Company, Zenith Entertainment, Award Films International

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen

Cameron Dove

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Dolphin Blue

Jeremy Cooper

Jeremy Cooper

Seth Dove

Sheila Moore

Sheila Moore

Ruth Dove

Duncan Fraser

Duncan Fraser

Luke Dove

David Longworth

David Longworth

Joshua

Robert Koons

Robert Koons

Sheriff Ticker

David Bloom

David Bloom

Deputy

Evan Hall

Kim

Codie Lucas Wilbee

Codie Lucas Wilbee

Eben

Sherry Bie

Cassie

Jason Wolfe

Cadillac Driver

Dean Hass

Passenger

Guy Buller

Guy Buller

Passenger

Jason Brownlow

Passenger

Jeff Walker

Adam Blue

Joyce Robbins

Joyce Robbins

Twin

Jacqueline Robbins

Jacqueline Robbins

Twin

Debi Greenawdt

First Woman

Sandra Redmond

Second Woman

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