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carlett Johansson’s ET, Laura, seduces men around the Glasgow area and takes them back to her home in Jonathan Glazer’s disquieting 2013 sci-fi drama. An instant classic, it’s loosely based on Michael Faber’s novel, and chills to the bone thanks to an insistent, supernatural score by Mica Levi, Johansson’s otherworldly detachment and Daniel Landin’s visceral cinematography.
That marriage is never more arresting than in scenes in Laura’s alien ‘black room’ - a viscous, glossy nothingness that literally swallows the men she entices there. Looking like an unremarkable council house from the outside, once inside everything ordinary is gone, leaving a black void with a floor of pooling black liquid - willingly walked into by victims transfixed by their attacker.