Movies like The Neon Demon

“The Neon Demon (2016) is a 2010s psychological-horror that stages beauty as existential currency. It frames an aspiring model's commodified youth against a predatory network and encodes that conflict through high-contrast chiaroscuro, neon-saturated mise-en-scène, and practical lighting to render glamour as structural threat. The film argues with clinical force that aesthetic desire operates as corrosive social logic, making its cultural case through sustained lighting-grammar and disciplined frame composition.”