‘Skincare’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Goes For The Kill In This Twisted Face-Off Thriller
deadline.comElizabeth Banks takes charge and delivers in Skincare, a Hollywood-set psychological thriller that its feature debuting director, Austin Peters likes to label a “sunshine noir”.
Certainly it has elements of the classic darkly lit black and white film noirs set in L.A. in the 40’s, but this one takes place directly in the bright sunlit corners of Southern California where facialists are definitely a thing.
It is a fictional story, very loosely inspired apparently by a real case involving aesthetician Dawn DaLuise who was accused of putting out a hit on a rival facialist in 2014 and did wind up doing some prison time before being acquitted.
There is no mention of her or that, but apparently screenwriters Deering Regan & Sam Freilich, and Peters were “inspired” enough to use it as a tipping point.
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