The movie deals with an alien (ScarJo) who seduces men and lures them to her home in Scotland. Here she strips while walking, having them do same where they slowing disappear into the floor. Later we see what happens to them. Their organs are sucked out of their skin leaving only their still living skin.
As the movie (slowly) progresses ScarJo (none of the characters have names) begins to act more and more human.
The movie is very arty and there are some very obvious nods to 2001: A Space Oddeysey. Of course, there is another movie people have been comparing it too; Lifeforce. Like Lifeforce this movie features an alien woman walking around, mostly nude, and killing men. Though the aliens of Lifeforce are mostly vampires (based on Colin Wilson's "The Space Vampires") this alien, as far as I can tell is something different.
There are some genuinely scary moments but not as many as I thought there should be.
2016 Movie tally
Watched: 17
New: 12
I was not impressed with Under the Skin, there are a (very few) interesting and creepy scenes. The story is is based on sounds more interesting (though way too longs) and how it was filmed is pretty fascination, but it just was not that interesting or coherent of a movie.
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