An alien entity inhabits the earthly form of a young woman who combs the roads and streets of Scotland in search of the human prey she came to plunder. She seduces her isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed. However, existence in all its complexity begin to change the alien visitor. She begins to discover herself as human with tragic and terrifying consequences.Under The Skin represents a few things in my opinion but most importantly it represents a quality that has been missing from Cinema for quite some time. It marks a return of the eerie horror/Uncomfortable thriller (for want of a better description), something I thought we’d seen the last of after the passing of Kubrick back in the late 90’s. It’s ‘Bodysnatchers’, it’s ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’, it’s ‘Don’t Look Now’, it’s Kubrick, Roeg and Tarkovsky,A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.