Films and TV shows that feel like Mascara by Deftones
A smeared, beautiful, aching darkness where desire and numbness blur together in a narcotic, nocturnal haze.
- Mulholland Drive (2001): A dreamy, sinister Los Angeles of desire and identity dissolving into haze.
- Drive (2011): Neon night-city moodiness with sudden violence and quiet longing.
- The Neon Demon (2016): Seductive, glossy beauty curdling into dread, makeup and all.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Insomniac, drifting intimacy in a hazy nocturnal city.
- Twin Peaks (1990): Dreamlike, erotic menace beneath a beautiful surface.
- Euphoria (2019): Glitter, numbness and heavy emotion in stylised late-night excess.
- Only God Forgives (2013): Slow, saturated, hypnotic darkness with heavy sensual undertow.
- The Crow (1994): Gothic, rain-soaked heartache soundtracked by the era's heavy alt-rock.