Been looking forward to this movie for a while. Where/when is it playing?

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Yahoo Movies says it opened April 4th but the nearest theater is in Hollywood, CA!

But speaking of women, movies and sex, this is the best fact I've acquired all day:

What Kind of Porn Turns Women On?

A 2008 study found that women showed signs of arousal watching pretty much anything: masturbation, straight sex, girl-on-girl, guy-on-guy, bonobo chimps, everything — except pictures of naked men, which did not float a woman’s boat.

http://www.alternet.org/gender/what-kind…

Now, can someone tell that to the guy who is always taking his shirt off. No one cares. No one female that is.

Ohhh. I just read Faber's novel last week. It was given by a friend and ignored on my shelf for about a year. i had NO IDEA what I was getting into, but I was sucked into the world.

Film sounds really interesting, too. Also Paul, appreciate your care in providing an interesting and informative review without giving any spoilers. Well done.

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Here is some more info on that research from the New York Times, with an even more interesting result:

"The participants were also given a keypad so that they could rate how aroused they felt. ...for the male participants, the subjective ratings on the keypad matched the readings of the plethysmograph. The men’s minds and genitals were in agreement.

All was different with the women. No matter what their self-proclaimed sexual orientation, they showed, on the whole, strong and swift genital arousal when the screen offered men with men, women with women and women with men. They responded objectively much more to the exercising woman than to the strolling man, and their blood flow rose quickly...as they watched the apes. And with the women, especially the straight women, mind and genitals seemed scarcely to belong to the same person. The readings from the plethysmograph and the keypad weren’t in much accord."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazi…

I saw it earlier tonight. In my defense I was extremely tired, but I confess I was confused throughout. There were a lot of things I dug about it but I was lost for most of it. My only advice is don't go unless you can give it more attention than I was able to give it. If anything made sense, I was too sleepy to catch it.

@3 and 5: I just read in (insert second-hand website here) that hetero men are secretly more turned on by gay porn than straight porn.

Yeah, "they" did a study. So it MUST be true, right? 'Cos only true things get published and re-published on the web.

This film is just flat-out incredible. And a great audience experience (people were actively hostile, the guy yelling "Fuckin' *art*!" being especially amusing). Haven't been as gobsmacked by a picture in some time.

It was pretty awesome. Some parts a little hard to follow, but to enjoy it just let it draw you in. Creepiest serial killer murder scenes ever. Pretty much blood free too.

I doubt it will play in Kent.

Absorbing and fucking creepy.

Never thought I'd say this, but Scotland seems like a terrifying hellscape.

The scene with the deformed guy was incredible and I am going to go buy the soundtrack ASAP. Just a psychotically addictive and strange flick. Loved it.

Under the skin is a laconic, visual sci-fi poem. For me, it's one of those interesting films that left virtually no impression with me whatsoever. It's deliberately cryptic that it evokes no emotional resonance.

While it's one of the most unique films I've ever seen, it's so impenetrable that it doesn't really stay with you. It's a structurally creative exercise that never draws you in.