Night Light Showing at Cinema Salem: "Perfect Blue"

What makes a film “cult?” Is it a lost masterpiece? A “so bad it’s good” camp treasure? Or, like the haunted VHS tape in THE RING, is it a dark, dark door that should have never been opened? Every Friday night, Cinema Salem brings you entries from the cult canon and new nuggets of negative energy, ready to be unearthed. While Salem sleeps, Cinema Salem keeps the light burning.

In his first feature, anime grandmaster Satoshi Kon brings trademark psychological layers to a portrait of Mima, a pop idol whose transition into a legitimate acting career angers her fans. As Mima’s friends start turning up dead, she suspects her squeaky-clean mirror image is the one killing them. With Kon’s coldly precise animation tracing the lines of the 90s thriller genre, PERFECT BLUE is an early exploration of fan toxicity in the internet age.