Under The Skin
In a form of dramatic and powerful scenes about a story stemming from pure science fiction based on Michael Faber's novel. In that story, Michael tells of a strange woman who went to the highlands of Scotland. On the tops of the mountains of Scotland, this girl tries to use her beauty and attractiveness to capture people and turn them into food for her army under strange circumstances and exciting events for her and her army.
10 March 1982, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1982, Northern Ireland, UK
22 November 1984, New York City, New York, USA
October 05, 2016
Though Johansson barely speaks, she conveys her alien character's unfamiliarity with her body and her surroundings, as well as her growing awareness of what it means to be human, in every look and subtle motion.July 14, 2016
Repetitive but creepy sci-fi horror flick likely to get under your skin.June 18, 2016
An exploration and subversion of the unstated theme of 'Species' and its ilk: the fear of female sexuality, and the fantasy scenarios that are all tied up in those fears.March 10, 2017
Glazer judges the men who die as he leers at Johansson in the exact same manner. Then there's a fire, and you wonder why you bothered.May 09, 2014
All this is initially fascinating, and then progressively less so.May 23, 2017
Under the Skin is a movie that truly defies articulation. It's visceral; not violent or exploitative, but challenging and exotic.May 08, 2014
Most of Under the Skin operates on an almost subconscious level. The truth is out there in Glazer's screenplay, which he co-wrote with Walter Campbell, but it's intuitive rather than didactic.January 05, 2015
Glacial in pace, skeletal in plot, and generally nasty, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin is a repetitive nightmare of drear and dread punctuated by moments of queasy-making horror.February 27, 2017
I just hated, hated, hated every mind-numbingly pretentious minute of it.January 05, 2015
It's admirable that Johansson should be so willing to go off the Hollywood grid, but the truth is, "Under the Skin" would have been a lot better if it wasn't so excruciatingly arty.April 19, 2014
One of the most polarizing movies in recent years.January 05, 2015
Minds will be blown to the four winds. And - fair warning - a percentage of American ticket buyers may find themselves exasperated and/or exiting early.