In this, his second feature film, writer-director Philip Ridley revisits much of the same territory as his debut, the mesmerizing cult film, THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990), but to lesser effect. A similar message is watered down by weaker imagery and simpler execution that seem to indicate a
filmmaker afraid to give his vision full rein.
When he finds an unconscious young man in the woods, delivery man Jude (Loren Dean) takes him to a secluded house where Callie (Ashley Judd) agrees to care for him. His name, taken from the Bible, is Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser), and he is the only survivor of a fundamentalist sect that was
massacred by villagers. Callie invites Da...
Released:
1996
Rated:
R
Length:
101 mins