The Neon Demon Review

Review of The Neon Demon (2016) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

this does was what I was expecting out of THE SUBSTANCE but as an experiment it doesn't really hold water as something so on the nose. it reads as a half-winking SUSPIRIA curtain pull, and I guess only Refn could make something so aesthetically perpendicular but it's practically designed to not feel right in a structural sense. this did make me think about Jean Rollin, though he would never include 60 scenes of people telling our main character "you are so beautiful and so perfect, do you realize how you are so beautiful and so perfect?"

Keanu fucking killed it here though. dream sequence made my jaw drop.