FilmRPsychological Body Horror Splatter & Gore

The Neon Demon2016

Name: The Neon Demon
Genre: Psychological, Body Horror, Splatter & Gore, Gothic
Released: 2016-06-08
Rating: 6

“Beauty is vicious.”

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.1Rotten Tomatoes 59%Metacritic 51TMDB 6.5

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Year

2016

Runtime

118 min

Box Office

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$3,400,000

Domestic

$1,333,124

🏆 18 wins & 39 nominations total

The premise

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

Horror Vault's take

A wide-eyed teenager arrives in Los Angeles chasing a modelling career, only to find the fashion world is stalked by something far more dangerous than rejection. Director Nicolas Winding Refn wraps the industry's cult of beauty in neon-drenched surrealism, transforming runway envy into something genuinely predatory. What begins as a portrait of innocence swallowed by ambition spirals into dark, visceral territory where obsession has no polite limits.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Necrophilia, Cannibalism, Sexual Content, Predatory And Manipulative Behaviour Toward A Minor, Disturbing Imagery