More Than Just a Restoration, ‘Mysterious Skin’ Gets a Full-Blown Rejuvenation, Which Allowed Gregg Araki to Perfect the Queer Classic

It’s been 21 years since Gregg Araki debuted his masterpiece, “Mysterious Skin.” That’s older than the apocalypse-defying adolescent characters in nearly every one of his movies — and ample time for Araki to level up as an artist, to the point that diving back into the project using a post-production tool called DaVinci Resolve allowed Araki to fix the little things that had bothered him about the film over the years.

Watch the exclusive trailer for the ‘Mysterious Skin’ restoration.

“I’m just a better filmmaker than I was in 2003,” Araki told me over coffee in Toluca Lake, six days after unveiling his night-and-day 4K restoration at

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