UNDER THE SKIN

A mysterious and voluptuous woman of unknown origin combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.

Jonathan Glazer warps Michel Faber’s source novel into a genre-bending, nightmarish film whose dystopian centre is an unsettling yet beautiful inky void. By subverting her sultry star persona, Scarlett Johansson and her alien gaze trigger male fear and question the very definition of being human.