The Neon Demon is as fantastic as its predecessor Only God Forgives. On the surface, it telegraphs itself as a story of how the big city corrupts. Sixteen-year-old would-be model Jesse (Elle Fanning) ...
The fashion modeling industry is ground zero for horror in Broad Green Pictures and director Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon starring Elle Fanning and Jena Malone. The horror/thriller is gearing ...
“I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. But I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty.” When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a ...
“The Neon Demon” (Broad Green DVD, $26.99; Blu-ray, $34.99; also available on VOD) One of 2016’s most divisive films, Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon” is partly a slow-burning psychological ...
Amazon Studio’s The Neon Demon, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is a sumptuous horror-thriller set in the highly competitive and often vicious world of fashion modeling, where the term “eat their ...
Set in the cutthroat world of high fashion, The Neon Demon follows an innocent small-town runaway named Jesse (Elle Fanning) through the seedy City of Angels as she rises to short-lived fame. The sexy ...
make the film worth easily worth a look. As a purely visual experience, Refn delivers (I felt the same way about Refn's ). Thematically it feels as superficial as some of its deliberately skin-deep ...