The spooky movie about an extraterrestrial preying on men on the streets of Scotland turns the idea of the sex symbol inside out.
Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin.
StudioCanal
Under The Skin is cryptic, haunting, and erotic in a way that's more likely to make you curl up in a protective ball than turn you on. And if you haven't yet seen the Scarlett Johansson sex alien opus, it's now out on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital rental sites. The film, from music-video-director-turned-filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, is one of the year's best and strangest, an often wordless and chillingly remote look at the world from the point of view of a predatory extraterrestrial driving around Scotland as she tries to seduce men in order to use them for their parts.
Johansson's fabulously creepy as the nameless invader. She's flirty and warm as she speaks to potential victims from her van, many of them just passers-by unaware that they were being taped by hidden cameras. Suddenly, she turns away and her face just empties of all signs of humanity. She's built to entice, but there's something monstrously Other underneath the surface. It's an unforgettable subversion of the screen sex symbol, and it's the most ambitious role Johansson's ever stepped into, one that offers a reversal on the sultry types she usually plays.
In the movie's signature early sequence, she first takes someone to her rundown house that's entirely dark inside — but her victims follow her in anyway.
A24
The space is empty, a dreamlike inky black — there's only the prey...
A24
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