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The Neon Demon

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Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

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. From TMDB

139 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works

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The Neon Demon is a 2016 horror thriller film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman and Jena Malone.

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  • Gingerzilla @gingerzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    You ever watch a movie called The Neon Demon, it is by that Nicholas Winding-Refn guy Kojima has in his games. Anyway, I watched it in cinema with other humans and it has lesbian necrophilla in it along with mutilation, cannibalism, vomitted up eyeballs. I watch it in a cineworld, a chain cinema.

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  • 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2025

    What’s your favorite Nicolas Winding Refn film? Mine: The Neon Demon (2016) #filmsky

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  • Mike Gild @mikegild.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    Do y’all like art? This is a sketch I did a while ago based on a quote from the Neon Demon. It’s a fun movie if you haven’t seen it

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  • 🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Yall lied to me. I fucking loved this movie! 😂 HIM (2025) is a maximalist, in your face horror flick that hammers home a very simple premise: The NFL is hell and the cult around it is toxic. Reminds me of two other flicks I loved: The Neon Demon and The Lords of Salem. A truly underrated gem. 👍

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  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.comBluesky · Sep 16, 2023

    New from me at Arrow; I look at the intersection of horror + fashion, with shout-outs to Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Irvin Kershner's The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) + Peter Strickland's In Fabric (2018) www.arrowfilms.com/blog/feature...

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    #NowWatching THE NEON DEMON (2016). Director: Nicolas Winding Refn. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks. Refn's gorgeously shot takedown of modeling industry has style, to be sure. But substance? More questionable. #filmsky 📽

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  • Tenebrad @bradislove.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Now watching The Neon Demon (2016). I've never seen any Nicolas Winding Refn movies before and I'm not sure what to expect, but I'm a huge sucker for colored lighting so this might be my sort of thing #Filmsky 📽️

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  • David Mack @davidmack.proBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    Jamie Clayton (famous for, among other work, the Netflix series Sense8 but was in feature film THE NEON DEMON).

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  • Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2025

    recent LA trip convinced me that a movie theater should schedule a double header of NIGHTCRAWLER and THE NEON DEMON and they should invite me to talk about them 😇

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  • Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    97. The Neon Demon (dir. Refn, 2016). Does this movie have a tight script? No. Is it mostly vibes? Yes. But even vibes can strike a chord. There's something about its depiction of unflinching brutality in the world of fashion & glamour, a creeping dehumanization I found compelling in execution.

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    I'm on record saying nice things about ONLY GOD FORGIVES and THE NEON DEMON, but the new Nic Refn movie completely lost me. (Keith seemed to like the pickle ball movie okay, though.) thereveal.film/in-review-th...

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  • H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    My hill-to-die-on unpopular movie opinion is that THE NEON DEMON is late-90s-Lynch-level good.

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    Tonight's film The Neon Demon (2016)

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  • Jesse Russell @cometstarmoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    It was a busy week for films. In addition to these four I started the week with Pillion and Queer. Mortal Kombat II Masters of the Universe The Neon Demon Fear X #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky

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  • Matt Orion @orionmatt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    8) THE NEON DEMON (2016) I’ve never seen a film from this director, but we’re in a Fanning renaissance lately so why not #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days 🎥

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  • Tenebrad @bradislove.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    The Neon Demon was definitely my sort of thing. The underlying concept of this movie is surprisingly simplistic which would probably be more of a shortcoming if it didn't kill the presentation so hard #Filmsky

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  • Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" for me would be excluding Jurassic Park, the Neon Demon, and Adolescence of Utena)

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  • Frankee White @daydreamcomix.comBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? THE NEON DEMON (2016) BLISS (2020) We’re gonna go with a “the price of creating art/fame” theme for this one.

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  • Elizabeth's Tailor @crispinglover.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    The Neon Demon, 2016 Nicolas Winding Refn "A diamond in a sea of glass". #filmsky #moviesky #filmart

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  • Drew @moviesteels.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 12, 2025

    I love The Neon Demon and did some research into the heavy symbolism in this film. My ★★★★★ review of The Neon Demon on Letterboxd boxd.it/aHDhSp

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  • de’on @justkeepskeeting.proBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    DAY 10 - a film you like with a colour in the title #30DayFilmChallenge i’m going to cheat and go with The Neon Demon(2016) even though neon isn’t a color

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  • DeathVaughn Slaylor @daddydisco.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    • The Neon Demon (my taste epitomized) • American Psycho (a film in which my appreciation has evolved over time) • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (legacy pick) • The Prestige (it’s perfect, idk)

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  • Brie @brielikethechhes.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    October 27th Thirty-one horror films in 31 days The Neon Demon Free on Tubi Not a great film but an eye fuck and the ham fisted symbolism is funny Liking the film but not for the reasons the director wanted B tier for the 21st Century youtu.be/cipOTUO0CmU?...

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  • Jo is Afraid @bywayofjosiah.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    Nicolas Winding Refn: (1) DRIVE: damn near perfection. (2) THE NEON DEMON: will go to war about this movie being good. (3) ONLY GOD FORGIVES: makes me feel like shit, but it’s beautiful. (4) VALHALLA RISING: IDGAF about Vikings.

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  • Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    Jena Malone - 📽️ The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) Admittedly, I always love Malone. But a Refn film where she gets to play in turn warm, sinister, surreal, and conceited really pitches to her strengths. She makes the truly impossible, twisted morgue scene work as well as anyone could.

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  • MizfitMathew @mizfitmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Works done, time for a horror movie! Tonights randomly selected horror movie from my list of unwatched movies is... The Neon Demon, 2016

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  • 🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    Now rewatching The Neon Demon (2016)! 📽️

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  • Mister Orange @misterorange21.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (139/365) #NowShowing THE NEON DEMON (2016) This one, I’ve wanted to watch for a long time, I just never seem to find my way around to it. Now, it’s another perfect excuse to get Weird & Wasted! Cheers, my dudes! 🥃🧡🤘 #FilmSky

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  • vampire girlfriend 💀🎃 @mourningdoves.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    tonight's movie was Him idk how good this movie is but i liked it. reminded me kind of the Neon Demon and has a great soundtrack

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  • Frankee White @daydreamcomix.comBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    REMINDER: The Neon Demon is a very good movie that everyone should watch.

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  • Terrance @stickysweett.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    The Neon Demon was a wild movie. 💄

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  • William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2023

    To me, Nicolas Winding Refn's defining film is THE NEON DEMON, a film that only achieves depth by literally consuming itself in the pursuit of superficiality.

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  • Pleasers & Punishers Podcast @pleaserspunishers.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Slather yourself in gold and give in to your ego for our exploration of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2016 LA horror film, The Neon Demon. Be hypnotized by Elle Fanning's eyes and Jena Malone's everything as we talk the ethics of the modeling world. Spotify tinyurl.com/bdwr2nd6 Apple tinyurl.com/2s4yrvjh

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  • Cait Kennedy @caitdoescontent.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2025

    Red on Film. Visions of lust, rage, and horror. 🔺 THE NEON DEMON 🔺 SWALLOW 🔺 AMERICAN BEAUTY 🔺 THE GREEN KNIGHT #cinematography #filmsky

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  • GirlsAndMolly @girlsandmolly.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    The Neon Demon is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. One of my favorite films so majestic in the way it's filmed. #filmsky #neonfilms #a24 #films

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  • Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2024

    It's Nicholas Winding Refn season at my house and tonight we're doing The Neon Demon (2016) - the last film they actually allowed him to make!

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  • sgibson5150 @[email protected]Lemmy · May 2, 2024

    I came here to say *Cannibal Holocaust*. That movie fucking traumatized me. Some honorable mentions: *Under the Skin* 2013 *The Witch* 2015 *The Neon Demon* 2016

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  • Specter Cinema Club @spectercinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    With NWR’s new giallo film getting a premiere date, #ThrowbackThursday to our redux episode on THE NEON DEMON ft. some classic @daddydisco.bsky.social & @garrettmcdowell.bsky.social bickering over a divisive film. Our specialty! #HorrorSky 🍎: apple.co/3zZo9i4 🟢: spoti.fi/3Edxwx0

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  • Novem @novem704.comBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Very cool 😯 I'm a big fan of Nicolas Winding Refn 😎 Drive is my favourite Refn film and my favourite Gosling film as well. I also really like The Neon Demon and Too Old To Die Young. This track goes really well with the stunning cinematography of Drive. Synthwave is so cool

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  • Virida Apple 🍏 | Hiatus @virida.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    That is, next to the Neon Demon, the worst film I’ve ever seen. So bad that Disney decided to not take lawsuit because they didn’t want to acknowledge that it exists.

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  • Rock Capuano @rockcapuano.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    Read the script for THE NEON DEMON (2016) and as a horror geek let me just say… Script >>>> Film Wasn't expecting it to have a bit more gore and even supernatural elements within its pages than the film does within its frames. And the final scene is the image of pure insanity.

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  • Nick Rankovic @kibernick.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    My comfort horror movie is “The Neon Demon” by Nicolas Winding Refn. It looks gorgeous, the soundtrack is throbbing and watching Mean-Girls-but-make-it-occult leaves me hypnotised.

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  • Jer Performing Twitch.tv/HeadlessBloodIdol 10-10-26 6:30 PM PDT @whydoisay.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2024

    The 10 films I've seen most in my life The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) Enter the Dragon (1973) Blade Runner (1982) Macross: DYRL? (1984) The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Batman (1989) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) The Neon Demon (2016) The Endless (2017) Assassination Nation (2018)

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  • 🪻Floral Neon 𓍢ִ໋ 🦋‧🌙˚✮ @floralneon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    I'm very into visual arts (and art in general actually) but not really into people, if that makes sense. Like I loved the way "The Neon Demon" looked, but it's more about that one film than being a fan of anyone. At least in the sense of how it informs my own art, I've got fav artists of course.

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  • a Mae of blood @eversonpoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2026

    23. The Neon Demon - the audio/visual aspects of this movie are so good that it's really a shame the characters are essentially non-existent cyphers for people another one we covered on @pleaserspunishers.bsky.social

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  • Gingerzilla @gingerzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    I replied to Destin about it but there is something about the fact that Death Stranding 2, a game with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ellie Fanning in it released this year and both of them worked on The Neon Demon together, a film that has necrophillia in it. It could be argued that a film with such...

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  • Dante Macabre @dtneal.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    I will always love THE NEON DEMON (2016). I don’t care if it was underappreciated. It is the most beautifully lit horror movie ever.

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  • Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    Anyways like I said last year when I saw it the good version of this movie is The Neon Demon but Nicolas Winding Refn is an ass soooo no one talks about it.

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  • Aarpee @aarpees.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    Watched #TheSubstance finally. It reminded me of at least half a dozen noted films: Sunset Boulevard, The Network, The Shining, The Neon Demon, a few Cronenberg body horror films and the director's own Reality+. Saying this as a complement because I liked the film. #FilmSky

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  • Pendulum Pivots @pendulumpivots.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    10 horror films to get to know me 🦇 The Thing Hereditary The Fly Scream Annihilation The Neon Demon The Blob (88) Nope Nightmare on elm Street 2 Godzilla I know I got better picks but if I can't remember film as well at the moment then I won't cheat

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  • Will Mavity (mavericksmovies) @mavericksmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    Cinematographer Natasha Braier (Honey Boy, The Neon Demon) is shooting "I Love Boosters," the new film from Boots Riley ("Sorry to Bother You") starring Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore and Naomi Ackie.

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  • David Markiwsky @davidmarkiwsky.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    Apparently it's the weekend for weird horror movies, because I watched "The Substance" on Friday and "The Neon Demon" today. I have no idea how to describe either of these movies. The only other movie that left me this speechless was "Possession". Just no words.

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  • DeathVaughn Slaylor @daddydisco.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    If there’s one thing you should know about me, I’m a slut for THE NEON DEMON. I’m at least in the Top 5 biggest fans of this movie club. I’ll fight you. Or kiss you. Or eat you. #FilmSky #HorrorSky

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  • Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2024

    The Neon Demon (2016) Refn is a style over substance guy for me, but here style is substance. The best Argento film he never got round to making(?)

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  • Thiago @thiago-blue.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2024

    Finally watched The Neon Demon! #filmsky #movies boxd.it/7wWzz1

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  • Kieran.boo! @kieran.blueBluesky · Oct 5, 2024

    Spooktober Movie No. 16 🎃📽️: The Neon Demon I still keep thinking it's Margot Robbie in the poster. Watched it on release but it's been so long that all I remembered was that I was disappointed by it compared to Nicolas Winding Refn's previous flicks. I don't know why I liked it so much more now?

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    Idea for a little themed film festival: THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER DELICATESSEN RAVENOUS THE NEON DEMON

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  • The Sociologist's Dojo @thesociologists.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Seated for "Her Private Hell" new film by Nicolas Winding Refn of "Drive" and "The Neon Demon" fame. Me thinks this will be closer to the latter than the former.

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  • Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Movie pitch: The Substance meets The Neon Demon, but about professional cheerleading.

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  • 💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    Ooh! Here are my ten horror movies I LOVE that I feel are under appreciated. -The Neon Demon -Hellraiser 2 -Lyle (2014) -The Eyes of My Mother -This House Has People in It -Suspiria (2018) -The Devil’s Doorway -The Bay -Night Gallery (1969 pilot film) -Spencer (it’s horror, fight me)

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