{"id":358413,"date":"2026-02-27T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/358413\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:18:09","slug":"lock-eyes-with-must-see-sapphic-demon-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/358413\/","title":{"rendered":"Lock Eyes with Must-See Sapphic Demon Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first trailer for \u201cThe Serpent\u2019s Skin,\u201d<\/a> debuting exclusively on IndieWire, doesn\u2019t so much introduce Alice Maio Mackay\u2019s next feature as it lets the witchy saga lock eyes with you. Daring you to look away from an aughts-coded dreamscape coupling desire and dread as inseparable forces, the promo comes ahead of the sultry monster movie\u2019s theatrical rollout from Dark Star Pictures. The trailer finally lends visuals to a promising queer film<\/a> that\u2019s been building buzz on the festival circuit since last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Championed by IndieWire since it played at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, \u201cThe Serpent\u2019s Skin\u201d confirms Maio Mackay has entered a darker, moodier phase of her already prolific career. Co-written with longtime collaborator Benjamin Pahl Robinson, the young Australian\u2019s sixth movie follows Anna (Alexandra McVicker), a trans girl who flees a hostile hometown only to discover a city crawling with new ghosts.<\/p>\n

\"SUN<\/a> \"'Scream<\/a> <\/p>\n

Enter Gen (Avalon Fast), the magnetic woman Anna feels she\u2019s been seeing in her dreams. Their connection is immediate, supernatural, and deeply erotic. But when the pair\u2019s powers accidentally transform Anna\u2019s former fling Danny (Jordan Dulieu) into something horrific, the trio is forced to reckon with the destruction intimacy can summon.<\/p>\n

The trailer leans hard into Maio Mackay\u2019s love of \u201890s cult television. She cited the gothic melodrama of \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d and the romantic mysticism of \u201cCharmed\u201d in an interview with IndieWire last year, further describing a creative evolution that\u2019s pushing her aesthetic into more tactile, sensual territory in her most recent films. Read Demons Hate Her! 21-Year-Old Alice Maio Mackay Just Made Six Feature Films in Four Years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by Vera Drew and executive produced by Louise Weard, the movie balances low-budget ingenuity with adolescent clarity, letting romance pulse like a kind of fantastic panic. McVicker and Fast have a charged, gravitational chemistry that grounds Maio Mackay for a love story that\u2019s bruisingly human.<\/p>\n

From Dark Star Pictures, \u201cThe Serpent\u2019s Skin\u201d opens in New York on March 27 and in Los Angeles on April 3 \u2014\u00a0with more dates to be announced. Watch the trailer below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for \u201cThe Serpent\u2019s Skin,\u201d debuting exclusively on IndieWire, doesn\u2019t so much introduce Alice Maio Mackay\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,597,19,17,327,1983],"class_list":{"0":"post-358413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-trailers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116140435363186597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}