Director Jennifer Reeder (Signature Move, Crystal Lake) has delivered a queer and feminist psychological thriller with Knives and Skin that investigates the aftermath of a teen girl's disappearance on the residents of a small Illinois town.
When Carolyn (Raven Whitley) goes missing following a fight with her boyfriend, her mother, friends, and various townspeople unravel in various ways.
The film's synopsis is as follows:
What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl's mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls--gathering in force until it can no longer be contained. Unfolding in a hallucinatory haze of lushly surreal images, Knives and Skin is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age noir that haunts like a half-remembered dream.
In the exclusive clip below Laurel (Kayla Carter) and Colleen (Emma Ladji) begin to act on their attraction to one another in a scene that fades from a conversation between the young women about a "story problem" that turns into a trippy melding of their faces to a cover of Modern English's "I Melt with You."
Knives and Skin is in theaters and available on VOD and Digital HD on December 6.
