Under The Skin, another great movie from 2014 - perhaps one of the best of the year - shares Enemy's unwillingness to explain what's happening explicitly, preferring instead to allow the deliberately elusive yet striking imagery to stir up the viewer on an almost subconscious level. This otherworldly tale of an alien who inhabits the body of a beautiful woman (Scarlett Johansson) as she trawls a Scottish city in search of lonely young men plays with two very distinct visual styles - the sequences in which she hunts her human prey are about as lo-fi as possible, with grainy hidden cameras used for much of the footage. Those back at the alien's "lair" are something else entirely, and it is here where one of the year's most weird and twisted scenes takes place. Lured into a black void-like room the alien/woman slowly strips and seduces them into a strange lake - here, one of her victims witnesses another man, presumably lured here previously, his floating body suddenly popping and sucking into itself before drifting in the fluid. It's a disturbing vision, as if the life essence had been sucked away in an instant, from a visionary film.
