The Neon Demon (2016)
director: | Nicolas Winding Refn |
release-year: | 2016 |
genres: | horror, sexploitation |
countries: | USA |
languages: | English |
In this "psychological horror" film, Coraline's younger sister stares 5 degrees off from the camera lens and blinks in slow-motion for about 2 hours.
![Blink twice if you need help writing a story. Blink twice if you need help writing a story.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/c2045b852a0129a700.webp)
The psychological horror is, I suppose, the ever-growing fear that the film might end before it develops a plot.
![They can't notice the missing plot if we stay perfectly still. They can't notice the missing plot if we stay perfectly still.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/c020071665bfdc9700.webp)
Spoiler alert: this is exactly what happens.
![This film is about… staring into the camera. This film is about… staring into the camera.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/c88f566d8314d9e000.webp)
I have no explanation for a 2-hour long film of people standing mostly motionless and doing absolutely nothing. All of it takes place under fancy colored set lighting, though. It's like a cinematographer's demo reel, but pitched as a horror film.
![If you blow all of your budget on set lighting, you won't be able to afford a script writer. If you blow all of your budget on set lighting, you won't be able to afford a script writer.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/6a8231d0e04234ac00.webp)
The girl from Donnie Darko tries her darndest to pull it back together and act out a scene with a plot every now and then, but she never succeeds in getting the other characters to play along.
![Donnie's girlfriend looks for the plot. Donnie's girlfriend looks for the plot.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/78d84f71b3a77e2900.webp)
I don't know, maybe it was a metaphor or something.
![A metaphor for wasting 2 hours. A metaphor for wasting 2 hours.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/a97b666c520e11fa00.webp)