Marika Engelhardt

Dario Argento’s expressionism meets Twin Peaks’ small-town vibes in this impressive, refreshingly weird drama from American writer-director Jennifer Reeder. An offbeat teenage horror imbued with magical realism and steeped in macabre humor, Knives and Skin is a bold and proudly feminist mystery.

A poor construction worker makes a deal with a dying tycoon to inherit billions, only to discover that the man's terrifying sins have also cursed him.