10 Amazing Movies That Bombed At The Box Office

Budget: £8 million

Box Office: £5.2 million

The most unconventional movie on this list, it also stands as one of the very finest. Scarlett Johansson provides arguably her best performance in an incredibly challenging role. Under the Skin is exactly what cinema should be when it comes to pure visual story telling.

In the simplest of terms, Scarlett Johannsson as a being from outer space masquerading as a human woman, preying on men in Scotland. It's also the strangest, most abstract fish out of water story you're likely to see. This is exactly why the casting of Scarlett Johansson was perfect. You wouldn't conceive of a Hollywood A-Lister driving a van around dreary Glasgow, discussion the location of the local ASDA.

Director Jonathan Glazer wanted to make the movie feel as realistic as possible, which led him to cast mostly non-actors in acting roles. He also made the bold choice to record scenes with hidden cameras, mostly when Scarlett Johannsson's character is speaking to unknowing members of the public out of her van. It makes for a truly grounded world.

Under the Skin provides one of the most unique takes on sci fi movies as well as alien movies. And yet this is done so simply by having our protagonist simply observe humans, and eventually want to become a human. It's Pinocchio except it has naked men being lured into a pool of black liquid before their internal organs are harvested by a conveyor belt.

Critics loved it, but for any number of reasons, hardly anyone went to see it when it came out.