La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In)

—2011, dir. Pedro Almodóvar

The Skin I Live In (2011), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

The Invisible Man (1933) / La piel que habito [The Skin I Live In] / Les yeux sans visage [Eyes Without a Face] / Rabid (2019) / The Twilight Zone - Eye of the Beholder / Teen Wolf: season 3B / 他人の顔 [The Face of Another] / Santa Sangre / Ich seh, Ich seh [Goodnight Mommy] / Sick of Myself

La piel que habito (2011)

The Skin I Live In (2011) | dir. Pedro Almodóvar

“The things the love of a mad man can do.”

The Skin I Live In (2011) dir. Pedro Almodóvar

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar DOP: José Luis Alcaine Production Design: Antxón Gómez

"Art keeps you free." | "Their fathers were very different but they were both born insane. It's my fault."

The Skin I Live In (2011) dir. Pedro Almodóvar

"I breathe. I breathe. I breathe. I know I breathe." | "Clothes make me feel claustrophobic. I wish I could stay naked all the time."

The Skin I Live In (2011) dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Gerard Way x Cinema (and Television): The Skin I Live In (2011) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar// Hannibal (2013-2015) Season 2 Episode 5 “Mukōzuke” Dir. Michael Rymer// V/H/S (2012) segment “Second Honeymoon” Dir. Ti West// Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) Dir. Alfred Sole// American Psycho (2000) Dir. Mary Harron// Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Dir. Philip Kaufman// Black Christmas (1974) Dir. Bob Clark// The Girl with All the Gifts (2017) Dir. Colm McCarthy

Body Horror Beatdown, Match 14, Round 1

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Propaganda under the cut.

The Skin I Live In:

"More a thriller than an horror (but to steal a quote I heard once, thriller are just how snob people call the horror movies they like). The man whose body's altered doesn't turn into a disgusting monster. Instead he is forced by the surgeon who kidnapped him to go throught multiple surgery for years until he is the perfect replica of the surgeon's dead wife. This is twisted and terrifying. I saw this movie once 15 years ago and I'm still disturbed by it"

Eraserhead: Be warned. The nightmare has not gone away...

"Just like look at that thing"

"The Eraserhead baby is my sweet sweet darling baby angel and *I* think it's a delightful little cutesit. I do understand why people think the prop that MIGHT have been made out of a rabbit carcass but no one's sure because David Lynch won't tell is gross tho"

"what was the baby made out of in eraserhead? truth is, no one knows. I'm fairly certain david lynch himself has no clue, and the only reason he acts so mysterious about it is because he doesn't remember. the current most reliable theory is that it was a cow fetus (keyword: theory) but what the fuck? david had people purposefully wear blindfolds on set so that they wouldn't see the actual prop being prepared for filming. he says he "buried it" somewhere in a field after the production wrapped. who "buries" a film prop???? i mean, if anyone, it would be dave alright. the baby invokes a sense of body horror like nothing else, because it looks genuinely so alien and just wrong in every way. sure, there's no bombastic gore, no truckloads of blood nor puddles of liquified organs, but the stupid fucking baby more than makes up for it. and on top of that you get a GREAT movie from a GREAT director. I love david lynch so much it's unreal and you should too. it is his most spiritual movie, he says. when asked to elaborate on that he just said "no"."

The Skin I Live In (2011), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

He lets me hit it because I'm surgically designed to look like his dead wife and I've stopped trying to kill him

Marisa Paredes a través del cine de Almodóvar:

· Entre Tinieblas, 1983

· Tacones Lejanos, 1991

· La Flor De Mi Secreto, 1995

· Todo Sobre Mi Madre, 1999

· Hable Con Ella, 2002 (cameo)

· La Piel Que Habito, 2011

The Skin I Live In (2011) | dir. Pedro Almodóvar

It would be so cool to have some trans writers and directors in the body horror genre. I think that’s why it facilitates and terrifies me. The idea of feeling/being trapped in your own body. I think that’s why I couldn’t finish The Skin I Live In the first time I watched it. And why Titane is one of my favorite movies. The body horror genre puts ti words what I’ve been feeling my whole life and haven’t been able to articulate until very recently.