
“I was able to take the 2025 version of me as a filmmaker and apply it to this 20-year-old movie,” Araki concludes. “There are things about Mysterious Skin that have always bugged me: I’ve never been happy with some of the VFX and some of the lighting. With this technology, you can relight things; everything is at your fingertips. I understand the purist argument, and there is nothing significantly different about the movie. I challenge a Mysterious Skin fan to watch the movie and tell me exactly all the things changed. It’s very subtle, but when you see it, it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, that is fucking better.’ That’s my take as a director.”
(Source: article, via Filmmaker Magazine)