Dans ma peau (2002)

AKA: In My Skin

Film details

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Year2002
CountryFrance
TypeMovie
Runtime93m
CastMarina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker, Thibault de Montalembert, Dominique Reymond, Bernard Alane, Marc Rioufol, François Lamotte, Adrien de Van, Alain Rimoux

Review

"It's mostly the suggestion of what Esther is doing to herself that worms its way into your mind and won't leave you alone, and that's what people were finding so uncomfortable that they couldn't continue to watch the film. Being confronted with a sudden boundary between "me" and "my body" isn't something many of us have dealt with, and our innate inclination for self-preservation tells us to run from the suggestion that such a thing is possible. That might make In My Skin the ultimate horror movie, one the proposes that, given the right stimulus, we ourselves could be our own worst mortal danger." - MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,00011
HIGHEST#4792017
LOWEST#9592024
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

Dashed lines indicate missing ranking data. Select a point to view that year's published list. The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films list was not updated in 2022.

The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED7
HIGHEST#1222015
LOWEST#3102023
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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