Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.

He is best known for his roles in Mysterious Skin and Tooth Fairy.

But figuring it out is not really what draws you through "Mysterious Skin."

"Mysterious Skin" seems less concerned with sexual deviance than with the imposition of sexual stereotypes on children.

In the 2004 film Mysterious Skin in the scene on Christmas eve.

Araki wanted to make a comic film after shooting the more serious and darker Mysterious Skin.

The idea of childhood abuse is used more intelligently in "Mysterious Skin."

"Mysterious Skin" is the work of a onetime bad boy who has grown up without losing his ardent sympathy for the wildness of youth.

"Untitled 3" is also used at the end credits of the indie drama movie, Mysterious Skin.

"Mysterious Skin," for its part, is one of several films here dealing, in one way or another, with the abuse and mistreatment of children.