Under the Skin

Mica Levi’s score for Jonathan Glazer’s eerie sci-fi film Under The Skin (2013) is atonal and appropriately alien. I was fascinated by the sequences of the film in which the alien played by Scarlett Johansson lures unsuspecting Scotsmen to their doom in some kind of amber-like underworld, which was visually remarkably similar to the “Dark Place” sequence in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017). My original idea was to juxtapose the two films, but the Radiohead track fitted the Under The Skin sequence so perfectly that it seemed like overkill to include anything else.

Film: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) Music: Radiohead, “Everything In Its Right Place” (Kid A, Capitol Records, 2000)