When an aspiring model moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. A visceral and supremely visual horror film from Nicolas Winding Refn, The Neon Demon bears many of its director’s trademarks: a scintillating score, a surplus of neon, a wilful pushing of boundaries, and actors playing very much against type. Not for the faint of heart, this is singular filmmaking for sure.
The Neon Demon contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
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