Under the Skin (2013) on Netflix
A woman drives a van around Scotland and draws solitary men into a house, where they follow her into a void. She is not human.
- Netflix2.6/5
- IMDb6.3/10173,452 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes84%
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Plot summary
In Glasgow, a motorcyclist collects an inert young woman he finds at the roadside and puts her in a van. A naked woman puts on her clothes. At a shopping center she buys clothes and make-up, then drives the van between towns, choosing single men who have few friends. In a dilapidated house, she leads one man into a void as he undresses, and liquid swallows him. At a beach, she tries to pick up a swimmer.
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Cast
- Dougie McConnellas Pick-Up Man
- Kevin McAlindenas First Victim
- D. Meadeas Leering Man
- Andrew Gormanas Second Victim
- Joe Szulaas Man at Club
- Roy Armstrongas Father at Beach
- Alison Chandas Mother at Beach
- Ben Millsas The Baby
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Under the Skin (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Gemma Arterton was director Jonathan Glazer's first choice for the lead role, but the production needed a bigger star to secure funding; the part went to Scarlett Johansson, who stayed committed to the project for four years before it was finally made.
- Many scenes of Johansson's character picking up men in a van, plus nightclub and shopping-center sequences, were unscripted and filmed with hidden cameras on unsuspecting members of the public, who were only told afterward and asked for permission to use the footage.
- Rather than use prosthetics for the character with a facial disfigurement, director Jonathan Glazer contacted the charity Changing Faces and cast Adam Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis, in the role; Pearson's own suggestions about how the alien could lure him were written into the script.
- The crew built their own custom cameras and rigged Johansson's van to tow a generator trailer so she could really drive it with the crew hidden inside; for the black void where her character traps men, they built a set with a reflective floor, and had the men walk into a pool whose floor slowly sank to submerge them.
