Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
by Jaime Davis
The Fixer at Moviejawn

Originally published on Cinepunx 

I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a scene in Nicolas Winding Refn’s visually arresting, plot-devoid The Neon Demon where Jena Malone, lying naked in the dark in the midst of a full moon, births an unseemly amount of blood right out her vagina. And she almost seems to be…enjoying it. The friends who I saw this with dubbed it her ‘moon period’ or ‘moon time’ – I can’t remember which. Cool beans, Refn. Have you ever actually like, had a period? I can tell you with absolute certainty that it’s never that gratifying, nor nearly that effusive. Don’t know about you, but hemorrhaging buckets of blood naked in the moonlight is never on my fun times to-do list.