Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin is a 2004 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Gregg Araki, adapted from Scott Heim's 1995 novel of the same name. The film is Araki's eighth, premiering at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in 2004, although it was not more widely distributed until 2005.

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.