Director: Austin Peters
Skincare turns a Los Angeles facialist's big career leap into a slow-burn nightmare, tracking how professional ambition curdles into paranoia once someone starts working to unravel everything she has built.
What is Skincare about?
Hope Goldman has spent years tending to the faces of the famous, and now she's ready to put her name on her own retail skincare line. Just as the launch gains momentum, small acts of sabotage start chipping away at her reputation and her nerves. Convinced a rival or a scorned associate is behind it, Hope pushes deeper into Hollywood's back channels, chasing leads that blur the line between protecting her business and losing her grip on reality.
Cast & crew
Elizabeth Banks anchors the film as Hope, balancing composure with mounting dread as the walls close in. Lewis Pullman and Luis Gerardo Méndez play figures who complicate her search for the culprit, while Nathan Fillion and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez round out a cast that keeps shifting where the audience's suspicion should land. Director Austin Peters keeps the tone brittle and observational.
Context & significance
Set against the polished surfaces of the beauty industry, Skincare uses its Italy-United States co-production roots to give the story a glossy, image-obsessed texture that suits its satire of appearances versus reality. Released in 2024, the film sits inside a wave of thrillers that treat personal branding and social image as sources of genuine danger, pairing dark comedy with escalating suspicion in a way that keeps its 94-minute runtime tense throughout.
Where & how to watch
Skincare streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow every twist of Hope's unraveling without missing a beat. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself remains open to read for anyone browsing the catalog.