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‘Under the Skin’ Has the Scariest Alien Scene Since…
A24’s Under the Skin has been out long enough that I consider the image above to be a minor spoiler from what I believe to be the scariest scene from an alien-themed horror film since Fire In the Sky.
In Robert Lieberman’s 1993 Fire In the Sky, a man is abducted by aliens and subjected to awful experiments. The imagery is haunting, chilling, and terrifying. Ultimately, his inability to move is what sent the chills straight down my spine. You can watch the sequence for yourself in the below video.
Last night I finally caught Jonathan Glazer’s masterful Under the Skin, in which Scarlett Johansson plays an alien seducing men into her lair where she strips them of their skin (presumably for other aliens wear to Earth reader Philip Hansen tells me that, in the book, they eat the meat). There’s a lot of build up to this mortifying sequence, which is carries heavily by the score, that I consider to be the scariest thing I’ve seen since Paranormal Activity. Clearly this is just my opinion, and some of you will probably disagree, but I was severely affected by the moment in which we see how a human’s skin is obtained. The above photo teases this scene, which I hope lives up to the hype that I’m dropping right now…
Check out the film this weekend and drop back here to share your thoughts. Is it the scariest alien scene since Fire In the Sky?
Photo source: A24 and Lionsgate.
Updated July 8, 2014
Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary) has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to play Ghost Rider in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and it’s now officially happening.
Announced by Marvel out of San Diego Comic-Con tonight, Ryan Gosling will play the iconic Marvel character in a Ghost Rider movie being directed by Shawn Levy!
Expect Ryan Gosling to play Ghost Rider on the big screen in 2028.
Johnny Blaze is of course the most iconic and well-known Ghost Rider, selling his soul to Satan and becoming a supernatural badass. Nicolas Cage brought Blaze to life on screen in both 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, while Gabriel Luna more recently played the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider in the series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Luna was set to star in his own Ghost Rider spinoff series in the wake of that small screen appearance, but that Hulu project ended up being squashed before it ever had a chance.
Fans have been waiting for Ghost Rider to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many years now, with Ryan Gosling making it clear that he’d love to bring the character back to life.
That Hollywood dream is coming true. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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