The beauty and beauty-obsessed in Los Angeles construct Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest film, THE NEON DEMON.

Q&A with director Nicolas Winding Refn following the 9:30pm screening on Friday, June 24.

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. “One morning I woke and realized I was both surrounded and dominated by women. Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty. After making DRIVE and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of THE NEON DEMON.” Nicolas Winding Refn, November 2014