Under the Skin

3.89
    Under the Skin
    2014

    Synopsis

    A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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    Cast

    • Scarlett JohanssonThe Female
    • Jeremy McWilliamsThe Bad Man
    • Lynsey Taylor MackayThe Dead Woman
    • Dougie McConnellPick-Up Man
    • Kevin McAlindenFirst Victim
    • D. MeadeLeering Man
    • Andrew GormanSecond Victim
    • Joe SzulaMan at Club
    • Kryštof HádekThe Swimmer
    • Roy ArmstrongFather at Beach

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Guardian

      Under the Skin is perhaps best viewed as an icy parable of love, sex and loneliness.
    • 100

      The Telegraph

      Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear and seduction become one and the same.
    • 100

      Time Out London

      It’s an intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime: it combines sci-fi ideas, gloriously unusual special effects and a sharp atmosphere of horror.
    • 100

      Total Film

      You may not be sure what you've seen, but you've sure seen something. With neither a petticoat nor a wideboy in sight, this is one of the most original and exciting British movies in some time.
    • 83

      Film.com

      Under the Skin is a deliberately oblique piece of work that prizes rhythms and textures above hows and whys.
    • 83

      The Playlist

      Johannson turns out to be perfectly cast, being able to shift from blank alien mode to kittenish seduction without ever letting you see the switch being turned on or off.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      A totally wacky head-trip with midnight movie sensibilities and a daring avant garde spirit, Glazer's movie is ultimately too aimlessly weird to make its trippy narrative fully satisfying, but owes much to Johansson's intense commitment to a strangely erotic and unnerving performance unlike anything she has done before.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      More pictorially arresting than intellectually coherent.

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