10 Horror Movie Moments You'll Never Be Able To Unsee

6. What Happens To The Men - Under the Skin

Under the Skin
StudioCanal

Jonathon Glazer's Under the Skin is a fine film, marrying together body horror, existentialism, and a true sense of British foreboding into something wholly unique and infinitely mesmerising.

The picture follows a nameless woman - played with eerie precision by a career-best Scarlett Johansson - as she travels around Edinburgh in a white van, offering random men on the street lifts. Only once they're inside the car, we see the seductive power she has over these strangers, convincing them to follow her to an abandoned house in the city outskirts. 

For the first hour or so, the audience knows little of these men's fates, other than they're slowly submerged in a thick black liquid that the woman herself seems impervious to. Before long, though, the truth is revealed as we see just what this goo does, and the only way it can be described is as if a tiny vacuum of space removes all the men's insides in an instant - leaving nothing but a thin blanket of skin hovering in the darkness. 

It's a truly harrowing scene that's perfectly punctuated by some stellar special effects, something that'll linger in your mind long after the end credits. 

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