Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marking the 20th anniversary of Mysterious Skin‘s theatrical release, writer and director Gregg Araki is revisiting one of his ...

The 21st century has seen any number of films about the stories people tell themselves in order to rationalize and reconfigure their trauma, but none have been more raw or powerfully true to life than ...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains major plot spoilers for Mysterious Skin. Scott Heim’s 1995 novel Mysterious Skin, which was later adapted into a film by Gregg Araki, tells the story of two Kansas ...

“Mysterious Skin” had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival this summer, followed by its North American debut in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

Gregg Araki of 'Mysterious Skin' attends the HP Portrait Studio at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in 2004. J. Vespa/WireImage One of Hollywood’s most provocative young voices of the ’80s ...

Michael (“The Hours”) Cunningham has insisted Scott Heim, the author of “Mysterious Skin,” “is a serious writer who’s unafraid to swim in the darkest waters.” Put director Gregg Araki into a pair of ...

“Mysterious Skin” concludes on the bittersweet and wordless reunion of Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “(500) Days Of Summer”) and Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet, “Funny Games”), accompanied by ...

In her column “As Ribka Likes It,” Ribka Desta ’27 introduces her favorite pieces of media and justifies how and why they have taken up her time and invaded her mind. Scott Heim ended his debut novel ...

Independent filmmaker Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation) takes his first stab at adaptation (2004) with this screen version of Scott Heim’s 1995 novel, and the result is flawed but frequently haunting.