Could somebody recommend a film in the same spirit as Reflecting Skin?

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Try ' The Other. ' Novel by Tom Tryon. Very similar in pace, visuals. Has a set of identical 12-yr-olds and there is a twist. You will enjoy it.

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Although it's not out until later this year, I recommend Terry Gilliam's Tideland. They sound spookily similar!! They're both set out in middle-America, the main character is a kid with an overactive imagination, and they have a strange neighbour. And they're both set in America, but both shot in Canada. Coincidence??

Thank you all, for your recommendations!

It is interesting to see what films people come to think of when using the Reflecting Skin as a starting point. What most films (but I have not heard of all your recommendations, so I might be wrong) in common is the focus on disturbance, people in desperate situations. But this is something that can take many shapes:
The Innocents
The Pledge
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Butcher Boy

(I saw Clark's Bully yesterday, a film that mercilessly captures how people cannot BEAR what they have done ALONE, they have to share their stories and guilt)

Ramification, you give a beautiful description of films that I look for, films that portray "something evil that found it's way inside a serene picture", as you put it.


Again: Thanks a lot!!!

Here's one I thought was in exactly the same spirit---or treaded the same spookily disturbing ground as THE REFLECTING SKIN---a very dark 1989 comedy-drama called PARENTS---with an emphasis on the "dark" part by writer/director Bob Balaban (who played in that weird 1980 Ken Russell flick,ALTERED STATES). I'm actually surprised no one's mentioned PARENTS,considering it's also about a young boy who has some truly,dark disturbing nightmares for his age that seem to center around his parents,who are portrayed as the ideal 1950's married couple (the time period which it's set in) and how he gradually uncovered an extremely frightening secret about said parents. Worth retning out---I saw it years ago when it came out---it only played in a handful of theatres with very little promotion,none near me----and was chilled to the bone by it. It stars Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt as the seemingly normal parents.

Saw THE REFLECTING SKIN on VHS some years back--I have to say it did leave a "WTF was that?" kind of impression on me,even though it's one of my least favorite films---to me it was way too dark and mean-spirited for its own good,plus it had no soul--you never really felt anything for the characters. I've always though Viggo M. was hot,ever since I saw him in G.I. JANE with Demi Moore,and it is kind of surprising that this flick hasn't been rushed out on DVD just to capitalize on his presence here,since he does have a substantial part in it. It's one-messed-up movie,though. Check out PARENTS--don't know if it's on DVD,either.