The Reflecting Skin (1990)
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. farm, fire, radiation, vampire, widow, surreal, cult, surrealism, murder, cancer, rural area, gasoline, killer, molestation, nuclear, midwest, ex soldier, graveyard, slingshot, 1950s