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60 of 134 · most liked firstTwo more photos I found of Michelle back in the day. (L) With Shawn Ashmore, and (B) Brady, Jeff, Gregg, and Joe... at the Toronto Film Festival, just before the showing of Mysterious Skin there. September 2004.
unlabelledView post →Home sick from school yesterday, my (almost) 14yo asked if she could watch MYSTERIOUS SKIN. I said "yes," because how in the world is she even aware of this incredible film. When my wife came home from work, she rewarded my decision by describing the premise in the bluntest terms possible.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday (12/17) to queer provocateur filmmaker Gregg Araki. His Teen Apocalypse Trilogy defined a generation, but Mysterious Skin is his masterpiece. Totally F***ed Up boxd.it/7IAIwT The Doom Generation boxd.it/7JrGvF Nowhere boxd.it/7KGP5Z #filmsky 📽🎞🎥🎬 Criterion Collection 1233
unlabelledView post →So much is left up to imagination, CG, in special effects, and camera angles anyway, that it’s usually not very scary or dangerous. I remember hearing that the kids in Mysterious Skin were treated like they were making a completely different movie. No interaction with the abusive character’s actor.
unlabelledView post →The movie posters found in Pyeonghwa's apartment, office, and gym (updated): 1. Kids Return 2. Die Bad 3. Fallen Angels 4. Mysterious Skin 5. Raging Bull 6. Trainspotting 7. La Haine 8. Shame 9. City of the Rising Sun 10. Punch Drunk Love #masterpeace #주의평화
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin at the Roxy Cinema with this Q&A. Sunday, January 12th, and then Tuesday, January 14th! Sorry that I'm chubbier and grayer now than in this pic. www.roxycinemanewyork.com/events/qa-wi...
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004). Director: Gregg Araki. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet. I enjoy Araki as a provocateur & love his stuff, but (for me) he's only made one genuine masterpiece. Rewatching that one. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin, directed by Gregg Araki, is a deeply emotional and unsettling film that explores the lives of two boys forever changed by a mysterious event in their childhood. Adapted from Scott Heim’s novel... Full article: franksfilmreview.com/2026/04/07/m...
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin (2004), Gregg Araki A movie I watched way too young before crawling back to it years later after my own assault. A nauseating bullet that everyone should swallow at least once. Monumentally important that it was made by such an openly proud celebrator of gay sex and love.
unlabelledView post →The coach's house from the film version of Mysterious Skin (as it exists today)
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin (2004) A brutal, bizarre, unforgettable film about sexual abuse and alien abduction. Trauma has been trivialized and turned into a cliche in recent movies and tv shows, but this tale of trauma has lost none of its potency. Written and directed by Gregg Araki - BOTD in 1959
unlabelledView post →[sobbing uncontrollably even though I knew the ending was coming this time] Mysterious Skin Is a Christmas Movie
unlabelledView post →6. 6/6 - Mysterious Skin Man why did I think this was a good idea? I haven’t watched this movie since I was like 20. This has to be one of most gut wrenching fucked up life changing movies you could ever see. 10/10.
unlabelledView post →Another #LetterboxdFriday report - it's moved a bit but mainly because I forgot to post last week. LOL 1. Ladies in Lavender 2. Mysterious Skin 3. Another Country 4. Torch Song Trilogy #Letterboxd #Movies #Films #LastFourWatched
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin (2004) Dir. Gregg Araki #filmsky #movies #movie #cinema #film #films
unlabelledView post →In Canada we've got mochi donuts and a community supported local movie theater *glances at website* Oh snap and they're showing Mysterious Skin tonight
unlabelledView post →Writer/director Brady Corbet has started Awards Season collecting prizes for THE BRUTALIST. As actor, worked w/some greats: Hardwicke: Thirteen Araki: Mysterious Skin Haneke: Funny Games Von Trier: Melancholia Ostlund: Force Majeure Assayas: Clouds of Sils Maria That's how you do it! #filmsky 📽🎥🎬
unlabelledView post →15 movies to get to know me Mysterious Skin (my fav movie) Welcome to the Dollhouse Perfect Blue Martyrs (2008) Heathers Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) House of 1000 Corpses IT (2017) Plague Dogs Brokeback Mountain Little Shop of Horrors Blink Twice Get Out I Saw the TV Glow The Substance
unlabelledView post →Watching a movie, Mysterious Skin, in a VC with oomfs while playing Uma Musume and this is a strange juxtaposition of emotions... In one tab a tale of horrific sexual abuse of young boys, hauntingly told, and in the other King Halo is trying to jump for bread to win the fan fest, ojou-sama laughing
unlabelledView post →Author Scott Heim at Mysterious Skin 4K restoration screening at Coolidge Corner 8/25/26 coolidge.org/films/myster...
unlabelledView post →Keep honking I am listening to Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd’s music from the film MYSTERIOUS SKIN
unlabelledView post →By is/is not I mean there’s sections early on that honestly reminded me a lot of Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin so I was pleasantly surprised when the film is directly named & identified as something one of the subjects relates to— it’s a film that takes its subjects into a larger conversation
unlabelledView post →Filmmaker Gregg Araki meeting fans after last night’s sold out #BleakWeek screening of MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004) at the Egyptian 🖤 He came prepared with pins for his upcoming film, I WANT YOUR SEX 🩷🩵 Stay tuned for the full event recap.
unlabelledView post →Before I forget, my #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday 1. Madonna: Truth or Dare 2. Turtle Hill, Brooklyn 3. Ladies in Lavender 4. Mysterious Skin #Letterboxd #Movies #Films
unlabelledView post →caught Mysterious Skin in theaters tonight. then had a breakdown the moment the movie ended.
unlabelledView post →Filmmaker Gregg Araki at the Egyptian on Thursday for our sold out ‘Bleak Week’ screening of MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004) 🖤 The new 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive & UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Sundance Institute looked incredible on the big screen.
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin #fanart ~ (10/2023) another artwork done to celebrate my fav #queerfilms ... it feels strange to call this a fav since it is SO intense and disturbing, but it is honestly a stunning piece of cinema that has stuck with me ever since i saw it tbh #mysteriousskin #queerart #filmart #art
unlabelledView post →My favorite film performances from the 2000s. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Neil McCormick, "Mysterious Skin" (directed by Gregg Araki). #movies #films #mysteriousskin #josephgordonlevitt #greggaraki
unlabelledView post →June Movie Challenge Day 4 A film with a sex-worker in it Mysterious Skin a 2004 Thriller/Drama #MovieChallenge #MovieSky #Movies 🎬🎟
unlabelledView post →I’ve revisited MYSTERIOUS SKIN on three different podcasts now (@hkhspod.bsky.social and @horrorqueers.bsky.social) and the discussion is always rich and complex. A nearly perfect film, folks
unlabelledView post →Michelle Trachtenberg didn’t just star in my favourite show of all time. She also did her very best work in Mysterious Skin, a film that changed my life and changed how I looked at cinema growing up. I’m so shocked and devastated. Fuck this year already
unlabelledView post →Today being the birthday of @scottheim.bsky.social, it's a fitting day to watch one of my favorite Gregg Araki movies, Mysterious Skin, based on Heim's powerful novel.
unlabelledView post →Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin, directed by Gregg Araki, is a deeply emotional and unsettling film that explores the lives of two boys forever changed by a mysterious event in their childhood. Adapted from Scott Heim’s novel... Full article: franksfilmreview.com/2026/04/07/m...
unlabelledView post →Is Mysterious Skin Gregg Araki’s best film? Possibly. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #filmsky
unlabelledView post →The Doom Generation is still on my mind. I actually loved it. It recently got a Criterion edition. This film made me realise I need to watch all Gregg Araki's work. Mysterious Skin is everything.
unlabelledView post →Sleepaway Camp Scary Movie Mysterious Skin Perfect Blue The Warriors Heathers
unlabelledView post →Was time to rewatch Mysterious Skin. A film based on one of my fav books by @scottheim.bsky.social That Araki, a filmmaker I so admired, helmed this work that meant the world to me always felt like a sort of kismet. Still raw, visceral and powerful to this day. #ArakiSky #greggaraki #filmsky
unlabelledView post →A fantastic lineup for August! I'm excited about the Araki screenings: Mysterious Skin in 4K and his debut, Three Bewildered People in the Night. @seattlecritics.bsky.social will also be presenting the second film in our SFCS at 10 series: First Cow on Aug 20 with a video message from John Magaro.
unlabelledView post →MORE EXCITING GREGG ARAKI NEWS -- in a new @variety.com interview with the director on the upcoming re-release of MYSTERIOUS SKIN (here variety.com/2026/film/ne...) it's mentioned that that movie's soundtrack is getting a vinyl releaser!!!!!!! AHHH!!!! @4ad.com
unlabelledView post →its difficult to hype up Mysterious Skin to someone who’s about to watch it without spoiling the entire film, other than saying its very good and very sad
unlabelledView post →MYSTERIOUS SKIN is probably one of the most painfully intense film watching experiences I've ever endured. I try to watch it every few of years, but it leaves me utterly destroyed every time, it's almost unbearable. It is one of the best films of the last 30 years. lwlies.com/articles/the...
unlabelledView post →gregg araki’s most logged movie on letterboxd (MYSTERIOUS SKIN) has been logged twice as much as oliver stone’s most logged movie (NATURAL BORN KILLERS)
unlabelledView post →ICYMI, I wrote about I Want Your Sex, which plays @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center by way of @grandillusioncinema.org for one night only Aug 11. From Aug 28-30, @nwfilmforum.bsky.social will be screening Araki's debut, Three Bewildered People in the Night, and the new 4K of Mysterious Skin. 💄👽📽️
unlabelledView post →Despite the name "bleak week," this looks incredible! HARAKIRI DANCER IN THE DARK SEVEN THE TURIN HORSE WALL-E 🚨THE MIST (Black & White Version)🚨 THE FACE OF ANOTHER COME AND SEE TROUBLE EVERY DAY MYSTERIOUS SKIN June 17-23 at Nashville's @belcourttheatre.bsky.social Stock up on your Lexapro!
unlabelledView post →For tonight's Midnight Movie Madness, I'm going back into the world of Gregg Araki. I feel like I don't know enough about his work or his filmmaking despite watching three of his films (SMILEY FACE, MYSTERIOUS SKIN and WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD). I present to you NOWHERE by Gregg Araki.
unlabelledView post →The fucking audacity of Levitt to be a sellout to Heritage despite fucking being in Mysterious Skin and not realizing the point of the film as one of the lead roles They paid you REAL good to try to destroy Section 230 for those 🐊 fucking tears Nurse Lovejoy
unlabelledView post →I rewatched Mysterious Skin for the first time in nearly 2 decades and I’d forgotten how absolutely brutal that movie was.
unlabelledView post →day eight and nine, i missed a day so i'm combining two into one post. Phantom Of The Paradise is required viewing if you're a fan of horror musicals like Rocky Horror. Possum is a horror movie so sad it rivals Fire Walk With Me and like Mysterious Skin is a solid month ruiner.
unlabelledView post →Rearranged my Letterboxd top four for the first time in a long time. Plus aesthetic'd my whole favorites list (I've only seen Mysterious Skin just now I might be being hasty, but jesus that movie) boxd.it/vSejE
unlabelledView post →Not an original observation, I know, but… I keep thinking about one of the most common skeptic refutations of alien abduction narratives, of the common read they’re transparent narrativized spins on sexual trauma; something the film Mysterious Skin had made explicit.
unlabelledView post →It’s a Friday morning in Japan, so here’s my LastFourWatched for LetterboxdFriday. A good film week! 📽️ Mysterious Skin - 5 stars (OMG) The Little Hours - 4 stars (hilarious) Driller Killer - 4 stars Mermaid Legend - 4 stars
unlabelledView post →MYSTERIOUS SKIN premiered at the Venice Film Festival on this day in 2004. Directed by Gregg Araki and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet.
unlabelledView post →Okay so it's now too late to either vote in the Massachusetts state primary or see "Mysterious Skin" at the Revue. But. "Open Doom Crescendo" is still an incredible movie.
unlabelledView post →Was gonna go to the bar after watching Gregg Araki Mysterious Skin with post-film Q&A w/ Scott Heim, but instead I went home and took a Tylenol.
unlabelledView post →Basically the complete opposite of that spiritually Mormon sex purge movie. Like a lot of Araki movies, a lot of fun (Mysterious Skin being the obvious exception). I kinda miss the goofiness of his older dialogue but he still has his eye on the ball.
unlabelledView post →Yeah, it's seriously pissing me off that a combination of scheduling and budget constraints means I've had to pass on both Greg Araki films playing the NZ International Film Festival at the moment - I WANT YOUR SEX and a restoration of MYSTERIOUS SKIN (which is a fantastic movie, but neglected).
unlabelledView post →6/7 - Fire Island I needed a pallet cleanser after Mysterious Skin lmao. This is my second watch it’s such a cute movie idc. I feel like I’m microdosing cringe but it is never overbearing. Funny and cute. Idk. Also, did they remove Cibo Matto from the bedroom scene? I swear I couldn’t hear it.
unlabelledView post →what's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 1970s: Alien 1980s: The Shining 1990s: The Talented Mr. Ripley 2000s: Mysterious Skin 2010s: Hereditary 2020s: Sinners
unlabelledView post →Bleak Week will include the director's (read: superior) cut of MIDSOMMAR and a remastered version of Gregg Araki's best movie MYSTERIOUS SKIN. Hell yeah.
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★★ review of Mysterious Skin #filmsky
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