Under the Skin: The strangest movies about sexy aliens

We loved John Cameron Mitchell’s punk sci-fi romance, How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Set in 1970s London at the peak of the burgeoning punk scene, it stars Alex Sharp (To The Bone) as a punk kid who hooks up with Elle Fanning’s (The Neon Demon) rebellious alien and features an all-star cast, including Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies), Ruth Wilson (Locke), and Matt Lucas (Doctor Who) as an assortment of punks and aliens going head to head in a battle for London.

Based on the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman (American Gods), the film presents a number of sexy aliens using their seductive wiles to infiltrate the human race. Frankly, we love a good sexy alien movie and there have been some phenomenal (and some less than phenomenal) ones over the years. Here’s our ranking of the nine best and worst movies about sexy aliens ever made.

This movie should not exist but it does. At the very least it gives us the charms of Lara Flynn Boyle (Twin Peaks) as an alien who has conveniently (and smartly) decided that disguising herself as a lingerie model is her best bet for survival.

This movie is absolute hot garbage but we love it. As well as starring Dan Aykroyd (Ghostbusters) as a crazed widower who marries a super weird hot alien chick (played by Kim Basinger) within hours of meeting her, it also stars a young Alyson Hannigan (American Pie) as the daughter of this strange family who is inexplicably (and disturbingly) delighted to finally see Daddy getting some.

Throw in a sleazy Jon Lovitz (Happiness) as the same dribbling sex crazed buffoon he always plays and you’ve got yourself one of the most insane family movies of the late 80s.

This compellingly cheesy sci-fi horror sees a couple of aliens (Kim Poirier & Stefanie von Pfetten) looking to repopulate their species and deciding that posing as two promiscuous college students is their best plan of action. Can’t argue with that logic!

Natasha Henstridge (Deception) portrays Sil – a voraciously horny alien life form in the body of a bodaciously beautiful supermodel. What does this alien / human hybrid want from the planet? Intelligence? Insight into our technology? A tour of the seven wonders? Nope!

Homegirl wants some serious deep dicking so she can find the perfect male specimen to impregnate her. The movie gave birth to more softcore porn sequels than is necessary and probably continues to make adolescent boys everywhere super horny for aliens.

Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) would totally get it and in Starman he plays an alien wearing the hot bod of a normal everyday Wisconsinite on the run with the dead man’s widow (Karen Allen). Naturally, the two form a total bond (probs because Bridges is such a low-key stud) and the military want to kill him in John Carpenter’s sci-fi classic.

Written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn), this teen sci-fi horror is an underrated mash of genres and a wonderful tribute to John Carpenter’s The Thing.

As well as being stacked with a bomb cast including Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Clea DuVall (Argo), Jordana Brewster (Fast and Furious), and peak Josh Hartnett (30 Days of Night), it also stars Salma Hayek (Frida) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) as two stupidly hot teachers who are totally aliens now (but still utterly irresistible).

Nicolas Roeg’s masterpiece stars the beautiful David Bowie (Labyrinth) as a very sexy alien who stupidly falls in love with a quiet hotel clerk (Candy Clark) when he was supposed to be figuring out a way to steal some of that fine ass Earth water. Instead he steals some of that fine ass Earth ass.

Tobe Hooper’s sci-fi horror classic centers around a ludicrously hot alien babe (Mathilda May) charging through London and sucking the life out of various poor unsuspecting bastards.

The city starts roaming with half-dead people as a result, which (as anyone who has spent any time in London will vouch for) is nothing new. A badass astronaut (Steve Railsback) takes the extraterrestrial honey down and ruins all the fun. Oh, and ya boi Patrick Stewart (Green Room) turns up and has some really weird shit happen to him too.

Dark and deeply unsettling, Jonathan Glazer’s alien sex movie sees Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Infinity War) disguising herself as a super hot human babe and luring unsuspecting men back to the casual black abyss she’s got waiting for them at home. There’s more to it than her just being a crazed horndog (this isn’t Species) with a rockin’ look, as the sexy Earth squatter is legit on a journey of feminist self-discovery too. Aren’t we all, babe.