The Reflecting Skin and The Passion of Darkly Noon form The American Dreams, two cult classics written and directed by Philip Ridley.

Ridley's debut feature The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. Set in the Idaho farmlands of the 1950s, the film follows eight-year-old Seth through a mythical summer where reality is heightened to the level of a hallucinogenic, quasi-fantasy.

"A frighteningly assured directorial debut ... the film is a haunting, visionary tour de force. This tale of a child's blinkered view of adult dreads has an eerie, haunted radiance and hypnotic tug that may not come close to being rivaled."-Cinefantastique

The Passion of Darkly Noon is a modern fable; echoing the surrealist style of Ridley's dazzling and innovative debut film. A young man roaming the American countryside, the victim of a savage attack on his religious cult, is rescued by Callie, for whom he develops a dangerous obsession...

"Provocative, shocking and disturbing, a true original ... a masterpiece."-What's On