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The Aesthete is a psychedelic horror film with a sting in its tail. Horror elements aside, it deals with themes of dangerous art, drug use, manipulation, the nature of loneliness and alienation as experienced by the outsider, the things we will believe when truly desperate...and the possibility, perhaps, of transcendence.
Director
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.