Creepy. Beautiful. Brilliant.

Were it not already claimed by one of the most seminal of science-fiction movies, Alien would be a very suitable alternate title for Under The Skin. Superficially speaking, Jonathan Glazer’s first film in almost a decade is an extraterrestrial invasion story, featuring an undercover succubus from beyond the stars. What’s truly alien about it, however, is the manner in which Glazer twists that stock premise into something radically, unnervingly new. He’s wrapped a singularly strange art film in the fleshy tissue of a genre picture. But the disguise runs no deeper than a logline, as the Kubrickian dread of the opening scene will make instantly clear. Walk in expecting Species and you’ll have your mind cleanly blown.

Excerpt of review by A.A. Dowd for the AV Club

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