Under the Skin

2013 Directed by Jonathan Glazer

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

Scarlett Johansson Kryštof Hádek Paul Brannigan Michael Moreland Scott Dymond Jeremy McWilliams Lynsey Taylor Mackay Dougie McConnell Kevin McAlinden D. Meade Andrew Gorman Joe Szula Roy Armstrong Alison Chand Ben Mills Oscar Mills Lee Fanning Marius Bincu Stephen Horn May Mewes Gerry Goodfellow Dave Acton Jessica Mance Antonia Campbell-Hughes Adam Pearson

Alternative Titles

皮下之慌, 언더 더 스킨, Bajo la piel, Pod skóra, Pobud v moey Shkure, Pod kožou, Під шкірою

drama science fiction thriller

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Review by James Haves 38

What.
What?
I don't get it.
So?
I don't get it.
At least give it a rating.
But I don't get it.
Was it good?
Yes.
Would you recommend it?
I don't know.
How does that work?
I don't know.
What?
What?
Just give it 2 1/2 or something.
I can't.
Why?
Because it's good.
Then what's the issue?
I don't know.
For fuck's sake.
I don't understand it. It confused me.
Just your plebian mind.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
You know this whole review is entirely self-indulgent, right?
Yep.
So why are we doing it?
Only thing we could think of.
Oh yeah.
Also we're attention whores who like likes.
That's true.
Want pizza?
Sure.
Review by Adam Cook 80

Fuck knows.
Review by Adam Cook 92

It is rare for me to finish a film and be unable to form any real opinion on it. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, loosely based on Michel Faber’s novel of the same name, is a film that deliberately defies easy understanding. It is a befuddling, enigmatic and contradictory work that demands total engagement from its audience as it avoids all the trappings of a conventional movie. Yet after I left the theatre, both impressed and disappointed, I have been unable to shake the film from my thoughts.
It is a film of surprising contrasts - it is simultaneously mesmerising yet tedious, surreal yet mundane, erotic yet sterile. It is this internal conflict that makes the film so difficult to…
Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 29

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I love it when a straightforward story gets a unique treatment. Glazer's film is deliberately alienating, visually and aurally arresting and singularly engaging. I say the latter with no small amount of reserve as it asks a lot of its audience making it difficult to click with. But click with it I did.
Glazer opens with the birth of Johansson's character. In a beautiful visual sequence, we hear her find her voice followed by a rather disconcerting scene in which she clothes herself. Disconcerting because of the compete lack of empathy for the dead girl she is plucking her new wardrobe from. Against a sterile white background we see her clinically do what needs to be done. She gives the…
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★½ 7

Never in a million years did I think a movie that would make me contemplate my existence would also have Darude - Sandstorm in it.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 5

(aka The Woman Who Fell to Earth aka Post Tenebras Fucks): absolutely epic. the rare film that feels genuinely new, even while borrowing liberally from its influences. among other things, one of the cinema's most deeply empathetic portraits of loneliness.

Recent reviews

Review by Cadinho93 ★★★★★

Incredibly misunderstood and underrated movie. After I watched this for the first time, I had to take a few hours to gather my thoughts before attempting this. It's not often when a movie leaves me feeling this conflicted. Scarlett Johansson did an incredible job with this role. Some might say it wasn't very challenging because she spent a lot of time as an "expressionless" character. However, I disagree. She was "vacant", but not expressionless and the way in which she brought the character to life piece by piece as she became more and more human really blew me away. The acting felt natural.
Review by TiVo ★★★★

I was looking forward to watch this, because it was and is recommended a lot.
Now I have seen it, it is really tough to rate it. On a normal, narrative level, it is quite inaccessible or rather unusual. On a metaphorical, artistical level, it offers a lot, but it definitely takes time to think about it.
I dont think I got (all of) it and it was no easy watch, nevertheless I am impressed by the directing and cinematography as well as the amazing score.
So... 4/5
Review by Max Gustafson ★★★★★

haha i’m in danger.
Review by bakerwright ★★★★

Yeah the movie is weird but seriously the biggest mystery is how Scottish people speak the same language as me yet I didn't understand a word any of them said.
Review by SquareGo ★★★½

The weirdest thing I’ve ever seen...seriously wtf just happened...
Review by Larry Gorman ★★

When the synopsis kinda ruins the experience...... If this were a mystery box film, I might have had a positive reaction to this.
Review by Faris Maqsood ★★★

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Review by foopyHD ★★

The soundtrack to this movie is incredible
Review by Derek ★★★★½

A film about the human condition viewed from the perspective of an outsider/alien. Shockingly empathetic and tragic. An underrated, mesmerizing moviee yo