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Directed by: Gregg Araki
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Neil), Brady Corbet (Brian), Chase Ellison (young Neil), George Webster (young Brian), Elisabeth Shue (Neil’s mother), Bill Sage (Coach), Chris Mulkey (Brian’s father), Lisa Long (Brian’s mother), Michelle Trachtenberg (Wendy), Jeff Licon (Eric)
Country: United States
Language: English (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:45:04
Genres: Rape-Sexual-Violence against Men, Gay, Old-Young, Sci-Fi, Teensploitation
Plot – Spoilers:
Mysterious Skin follows the experiences of two boys Neil and Brian one summer as 8 year-olds and then picks up when they’re fifteen. That one summer shapes their worldview and future experiences. There is some alien abduction and scifi along the way that seems ridiculous and jarring, but if you stick with it, it all pulls together in the end.
Mysterious Skin is a harsh reminder of the effects of child abuse and a pivotal movie in the genre.
This movie sucks compared to the rest of the favorites list. I mean, there is no way in Hell that this movie is better than One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Requeim for a Dream They’re not even in the same realm! Must be a lot of sexually dysfunctional shitbags and pimply-faced incels with Daddy rape fantasies frequenting the site…
I can´t explain how heartbreaking this movie is, I loved it and yet I wouldn´t watch it ever again
Bedroom’s this way. Do it. Again. Strip. Open wide and suck it slut. What’re you waiting for slut? Suck it. You like that don’t you slut? Take it deep. Moan for me. Slut knows what’s coming next. I’m gonna give the slut just what he’s begging for. You’re getting fucked slut whether you like it or not. Slut. Slut. Slut. Slut. Slut. Slut. Slut. God you love it. Take that cock all the way up there. Take it slut. Yeah. Yeah. Are you ready? Here it comes. Are you ready? You ready? Ready?
the best movie ive watched in so long. its so absolutely fucking gut wrenching. i relate so heavily to brian that it actually hurts. i love this. this is so beautiful. the act of bawling your eyes out so someone you know understands is so healing, i wish i could feel that right now. i love this. 10/10 would not recommend
yo my name is also andre but I DO NOT agree with the other andre’s comment below like bro wtf 😭😭
damn, this was rough guys
the 3 fucks below me need to hang. love this movie despite my never being able to get through some scenes all the way. post-bathroom scene when neil wakes up on the concrete and calls out for his mom is usually my breaking point. shit is so fucking raw. whole movie resonates with my own experiences. any hand that touches a child should be blended and forced to heal wrong
my favorite film to jerk off to
What a disappointment, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was not 15 at date of recording
I always feel mysterious when I get into a little boy’s skin
one of the best movies to cover this topic, its dark but not unnecessarily crazy dark to the point its ridiculous like requeim for a dream, where everything is fucked and theres no light or message at the end. it really digs into how sexual abuse can affect people and shape their adult life in a way ive never seen other films do it is painful to see as someone who went through abuse but powerful in a way. still ive seen the bathroom scene once im not watching that shit again this time. the only other movie ive seen have scenes of abuse that brutal was once were warriors. but it still feels like a necessary brutality that u have to see once to really understand how bad it is. it is brutal because abuse is brutal . too many movies and shows just wont go there, the rape victim kicks the guy 435366x their size away and lives happily ever after. it doesnt happen like that, victims arent perfect.
Im too stunned to speak. So good but so sad and also terrifying movie. Chanced my view of the world AGAIN.
finished the movie and lowkey wanting to hang myself
So many people in this movie are so beautiful.
Really hard to watch this movie ngl
I watched this movie so many times sometimes I jerk off to this movie because it reminds me of when my dad used to rape me and I know thats fucked up but its my reality
I cannot get myself to finish this movie
I cried the entire movie, this all reminds me of my childhood i relate way too much omfg
i cried 10 times vro
Makes me want to tick a few names off the sexual predator lists. Sickening to know I gotta walk amongst niggas like that coach
Masterpiece
es una pelicula fuerte
Este es el tipo de películas que tienes que ver al menos una vez en tu vida pero no la verías dos veces.
R.I.P. Michelle Trachtenberg. She had undergone a liver transplant. It didn’t work out.
11th of October 1985 to 27th of February 2025.
a.k.a. 3rd Cock From The Son.
Joseph Gordon Levitt at his orgasmic best.
watching it for the second time is even more fucking painful
love watching these type of movies while depressed
Great movie!
(THE FOLLOWING COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS)
I love how the director depicted both Neil and Brian as two completely different personas, one being tough and getting into this as a way to make regular money (but knowing deep down that he will never find the love of his coach, no other customer made him feel that special like he did) and the other getting so emotionally traumatized by this that he suppressed his memory of that night to make himself really believe that some aliens/UFO reached out on him. Two opposite but yet similar methods to deal with this fucked up experience, pedophilia. This, Lolita (1997) and Mandragora (1997, it’s also uploaded in this site) are my 3 favourite movies about that subject. The ending was so beautifully allegorical, the two boys (who by that time they were adults but they never really “grow up” because the painful memories of that traumatic experience will always keep them on remembering what they been through) giving mutual courage and compassion one to the other while the carollers (who were all innocent boys just like they used to be before coach fuck their lives) were singing the “silent night”. Beautiful movie! 10/10
bro I watched this a week ago by myself on 24 hours of no sleep at 3 am and it fucked me up so much. Tomorrow I’m reading the book! I’m not the type for films to stay in my head for long but this keeps popping in my head
i love this movie
Incredibly cathartic to see so many people here, who have experienced the same trauma, relating to this movie. It was a really hard watch; I already started sobbing only a few minutes in and I had to keep taking breaks. But it makes me feel so seen to have not only related to the characters in the movie, but to see all of you people here too, sharing your feelings, living, and finding comfort.
I’ve never seen a film really talk about the fucked up feeling of thinking that you loved the person that abused you even though it’s such a common feeling.
Spoiler warning, but it honestly made me really glad to see the movie end the way it did. A lot of movies that deal with sexual abuse tend to end with the characters dying or something (not dogging on those movies, they have their place too). But it was really really nice and refreshing to see a story that showed a lot of that pain in realistic ways, but also allowed the characters to feel comforted and hopeful despite the pain never really “being over”.
If you’re like me and you searched up this movie in a low moment of despair, please keep living. You’re so strong for getting this far. I’m really glad to have found this movie when I needed it.
Fuck me up the ass with your hot teenage cock
This is so fucked up yet so beautiful at the same time… guess that’s the way of this life. I’ve been struggling with the idea of a God who is supposedly loving, letting bullshit like this to happen to his creations. My heart goes out to anyone who can relate to the dark parts ( the majority) of this movie. I want to fly away too.
monsters are real and they look like us
relatable movie
I felt so shit when Brian knows the truth. I lost track of my lifeline, my traumas are hidden and on top of me all the time, drugs are the only relief, see you all in the other side
esta pelicula me dejo el corazon roto y un vacio que no puedo explicar. nunca voy a superar esto, peliculaza y una gran representacion del abuso infantil
nunca voy a poder recuperarme de esta película
an absolutely fascinating movie with a very emotional ending. It really shows how differently people can evolve and remember the many faces of sexual abuse.
monthly rewatch for when i’m depressed
i could write a novel on this movie. how sexual abuse is so prevelant in gay culture, the stigma of sex work and the dangers of it, the aids epidemic and its survivors. this movie will forever remain my favorite, its the reality of gay men during this time in the sex industry aswell as a extremely accurate telling of how people cope with abuse. mysterious skin is a gorgeous movie. do not recomend 10/10
made me feel emotional from beginning to end and i dont even know why even though nothing major happened.. until then i understood.. this movie made me cry just because of how traumatic this is. my favorite emotional movie now ❤️
beautiful, impactful and incredibly fucked up. i thought neil was a complete sociopath but the ending scene was a very much needed moment of reflection and character development, he is just as broken as brian except it manifested in a different way.
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Joseph gordon was hot 👉👈
i cant ever watch this ever again 10/10
I was waiting for the aliens.
i always come back to this one when im wasted for some reason
Gay. Imagine thinking this is the right place.
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