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The Skin I Live In

DramaHorrorMysteryThriller

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. From TMDB

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The Skin I Live In is a 2011 drama horror mystery film, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Marisa Paredes.

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  • Fright Club @frightya.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Please join #FrightClub for Saturday's double feature, beginning with The Skin I Live In (2011), at 10 PM ET. Available on Tubi. Then at 12:20 AM ET, short film Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek (2005). Available on Pluto. Find yourself.

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  • Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    RIP Marisa Paredes 1946-2024 Veteran Spanish actress starred in A Dog Called Vengeance, Cake of Blood and a number of Almodovar classics including All About My Mother, Talk To Her, The Skin I Live In and High Heels. variety.com/2024/film/gl...

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  • Marci 🎃 @marcishaun.blacksky.appBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    #NowWatching 📽️💀 The Skin I Live In (2011) #frightclub

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  • singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    thinking about The Skin I Live In, a horror movie in which surgeon antonio banderas kidnaps his enemy and turns him into a preposterously hot woman. i saw this as an egg and it made me feel extremely normal

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  • Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    Director #2: Pedro Almodóvar, THE SKIN I LIVE IN

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    #NowWatching THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011). Director: Pedro Almodovar. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya. Love me some Almodovar. This horror/sci-fi/psychological thriller hybrid was something I loved on first watch, so checking it out again. #filmsky 📽

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  • Ricki☕🪄 @rickihirsch.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    As I work through "It Came From the Closet" I'm thinking what horror movie I could write a personal essay about if I was asked. Probably The Skin I Live In but the essay is just about how the movie taught me that olive oil is hella good on toast.

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    Late movie is Almodóvar's modern Eurocult classic, The Skin I Live In (2011). tubitv.com/movies/10000...

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    Tonight's film The Skin I Live In (2011)

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  • Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    #FebruaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky amputee in a movie The Skin I Live In (2011)

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  • Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2024

    Kicking off #NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre: BODY HORROR is @stanlok38.bsky.social on the unsettling questions about control, identity, and societal norms posed by the film 'The Skin I Live In'. nighttidemag.com/2024/12/27/m...

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  • T.F. Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @tfemily.comBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    Top TF/TG Movies (of the 22 movies i've reviewed) Honestly, I'd base this on whether I'd watch it again. Best overall: 1.) Your Name 2.) Zerophilla 3.) Sam Others: Best Comedy She's the He Best Horror The Skin I Live In Best Disguises Movie She's the Man Honorable mentions Freaky Every Day

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  • JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    #DendensMovieDen. No. 191. La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In). Having only seen a vague trailer of this movie before it released, I can wholeheartedly recommend you really do not see or read more about it than that before watching it. (1/5)

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  • Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2025

    The Skin I Live In TW especially for trans and gender non-conforming people because this is a revenge movie that deals with body horror and dysphoria and it generates inner community talk much the same way Sleepaway Camp does. Disturbing af. m.imdb.com/title/tt1189...

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  • DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    Over at the newsletter: "The Skin I Live In," a wildly problematic movie that I still managed to see myself in, very much against the wishes of famed director Pedro Almodovar: jude-doyle.ghost.io/ge-cut-the-s...

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  • Dance: 10⁻¹, Looks: EEK! @andrew3000.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2024

    Introduce yourself with: One book: Candide One film: The Skin I Live In One album: Sunken Condos One TV show: Seinfeld One book One film One album One TV show

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  • Eric Douglas @ericdouglas999.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    Favourite film for each year of the 2010s: 2010: Animal Kingdom 2011: The Skin I Live In 2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2013: Under the Skin 2014: Force Majeure 2015: Green Room 2016: Raw 2017: Brawl in Cell Block 99 2018: Hereditary 2019: The Lighthouse

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  • NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2024

    Kicking off #NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre: BODY HORROR is @stanlok38.bsky.social on the unsettling questions about control, identity, and societal norms posed by the film 'The Skin I Live In'. nighttidemag.com/2024/12/27/m...

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  • SloaneTVBand @sabrinatvband.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    10 horror films to get to know me [no order, one film per director] 1: The Craft 2: The Skin I Live In 3: Army of Darkness 4: Mulholland Drive 5: Scream (1996) 6: Videodrome 7: House (1977) 8: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark 9: The Thing (1982) 10: Phantom of the Paradise / RHPS

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  • Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2024

    Tomorrow on the Main Feed: we're revisiting the origins of Horror Queers with our very first Pedro Almodóvar film, THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011). C/W: rape, suicidal ideation, and something that we dare not spoil

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  • Colin @sdkcolin.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 7, 2026

    28. Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju I first watched this film as a double feature with Almodovar's 'The Skin I Live In' as part of a class on Frankenstein...I was instantly hooked. #31daysofhalloween #nowwatching #horrorsky 📽️

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  • Fright Club @frightya.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    Where to find #FrightClub tonight! #TheSkinILiveIn (10ET/9C/8M7P/3BST) Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10000... #Kakurenbo (12:20ET/11:20C/10:20M/9:20P/5:20BST) Pluto: pluto.tv/us/search/de...

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  • Perla Pumpkins 🎃 @perlapumpkins.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    @nofspodcast.bsky.social #31DayHorrorChallenge #NightmareonFilmStreet Day 23 Mad Science: The Skin I Live In (2011) Lots of trigger warnings here but otherwise a really captivating freaky little movie.

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  • Wong Turn 2: Dead End @wonggifs.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    The Skin I Live In almost feels like a horror film, so might be most up your alley. This one is an extremely wacky comedy. It's hard to compare it to something when it feels entirely like it's own thing. Just bizarre. I loved it. Gotta check out more of his stuff.

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2023

    THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2011) Pedro Almodovar's transgressive riff on EYES WITHOUT A FACE. Definitely a Boxing Day film. Cinematography by Jose Luis Alcaine, BOTD in 1938

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  • SloaneTVBand @sabrinatvband.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Finished reading Mygale, which was adapted into The Skin I Live In. Going to talk about both below. I'll talk about them assuming you've seen TSILI. If you've never seen the movie, you should! But go in COMPLETELY blind. Content warning for some "tough stuff"; can't elaborate more than that.

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  • Angela @redwhimsy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Whew! When Almodovar gets going, he REALLY cooks! I'll be digesting THE SKIN I LIVE IN for a minute, but we can never doubt Pedro Almodovar's prowess as a director or his love of beauty and color. #FilmSky #Films #Movies

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  • Colin @sdkcolin.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2025

    #139 - Eyes Without A Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju This might be my favorite French film. I first watched it in college for a project where I had to compare it to Pedro Almodovar's 'The Skin I Live In'. Talk about a double-feature! #horrorsky #nowwatching #31daysofhorror

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  • Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    The latest season of @rememberthispod.bsky.social prompted me to watch Billy Wilder's FEDORA this evening. One, terrific film. Two, I would wager a small amount of cash that a couple of moments in Pedro Almodovar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN referenced it. (No, William Holden does not wear a tiger costume.)

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Apr 28, 2025

    The Skin I Live In [70] is a $4 VOD: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-sk... #11pmspecial "Almodóvar offers up a grisly Halloween trick-and-treat in his first full-out horror movie, an eye-popping and genuinely shocking gender-bending twist on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo." - New York Post

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  • Rina Vs The Backlog Monster @shenobifactor.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    2000-2024 Horror Movies That Influenced Me (Day 12) 2011: The Skin I Live In You know...maybe everyone should just go into every movie blind, no synopsis, nothing. That's all I'm saying.

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  • Simon Taylor @simon-taylor.netBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 2 Watch a movie set in the future. This week I watched: La Jetée (1962) Death Watch (1980) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) WALL·E (2008) The Skin I Live In (2011)

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    Today's first movie is The Skin I Live In (2011) 🍿

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  • Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2023

    So...we're staring a month worth of Spanish language horror movies and I decided to add "The Skin I Live In" to the list, which means I now have to watch "The Skin I Live In" again. Is this a good movie? I do not know. It's an Almodovar movie, which means you're never going to forget it. Yeah...

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  • 🧛‍♀️𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓲𝓮🔪 @ca9ineteeth.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    An eclectic bunch #Letterboxd #FilmSky - The Muppet Movie (1979) - The Invite (2026) - My Father is Coming (1991) - The Skin I Live In (2011)

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  • nEo @n-3-o.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2026

    There’s a Spanish movie called the Skin I Live In. Just like the Sixth Sense, it takes you through a similar experience, in a different context of course.

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  • D✿lli D✿nutz! ٩(๑•́ᴗ•̀๑)۶ @dollidonutz.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    Between binging One Pace, my friend and I started doing surprise movie days, where we each pick a movie to watch and do a double feature, and today is our first subtitled movie day. I’m choosing The Skin I Live In! But I also want to choose City of God, P.K, Oldboy & Train to Busan.😩 I love movies!

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Jul 14, 2025

    A wild mini film-festival idea: • THE SKIN I LIVE IN • FACE/OFF • EYES WITHOUT A FACE • THE FACE OF ANOTHER

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  • ygnoge @ygnoge.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Talking to me about film is very "girl who's only seen Working Girl, The Skin I Live In, and Zardoz", you know?

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  • John Bloor Printmaker @johnbloorprint.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    Watched a bit more of The Gorge (terrible!), The Skin I Live In, Inland Empire, The Thing and Perfect Days. Apart from The Gorge, I am enjoying them all. #film

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  • T.F. Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @tfemily.comBluesky · Jan 7, 2025

    Absolutely - I was going to recommend The Skin I Live In as a better force fem movie.. creepy, yes. body horror, yes. But better execution than The Assignment.

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  • The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.onlineBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    put on The Skin I Live In (2011) and looked up just in time to assume the rest of the movie is about a new gender realignment surgery that will save humanity

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  • SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    When auteurs make horror films. Another item for the Halloween film festival, Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, streaming on Kanopy & Beamafilm www.kanopy.com/video/117949

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  • Tess @teetertottertesser.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    #HorrorMovieChallenge2026 stretches the definition of "horror" a bit, but @letterboxd.social had that as one of the genres and that's good enough for me. When someone told me about this movie, I thought they meant The Skin I Live In and didn't realize there was a similar film. Color me intriqued.

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  • SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Next dark masterpiece comes with every possible content warning. A brooding neo-noir body horror that I believe is Pedro Almodovar’s greatest film. The Skin I Live In (2011) streams ad-free on Beamafilm CW: strong violence/sexual violence beamafilm.com/watch/the-sk...

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  • Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    EYES WITHOUT A FACE is a cinematic singularity for me--still is for the most part. Even Franju's surname has unique, enduring mystique in memory. The only other film I've seen that casts a thematic echo to EWAF, is Almodovar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN. I've only seen it once but it also clings to memory:

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  • James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    The Skin I Live In. That movie made me depressed and having PTSD episodes due to triggers in it for a week. Never again. Ugh.

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    The Skin I Live In [70] is free on Kanopy: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-sk... #11pmspecial "An eye-popping and genuinely shocking gender-bending twist on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post

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  • Ryan Van Ells @ryanvanellswrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2025

    🎃 31 Horror Movies in 31 Days 🎃 13/31 The Skin I Live In (2011) One of those movies that creeps under your skin and twists at your guts. You only have to watch once because you'll keep thinking about it even when you wish you wouldn't.

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  • Simon @thedenature.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    Different movie. The Skin I Live In is by Pedro Almodóvar.

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  • D✿lli D✿nutz! ٩(๑•́ᴗ•̀๑)۶ @dollidonutz.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2025

    My love language is watching my favorite movies with people who have never seen them and have no idea what they’re gonna get into.🥳 (Movie in gif: The Skin I Live In)

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  • Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2025

    I've been filling in my Almodóvar gaps and revisiting his catalog generally for processing my past reasons -- Volver was the last one I remember seeing in real time until last year's The Room Next Door. Just watched The Skin I Live In with some younger friends and boy howdy is that ever a movie.

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  • May Mews @maymews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    Thinking about when my best friend and I watched "The Skin I Live In" and his reaction was utter disgust and never wanting to see it again, and my internal reaction was 'that movie was messed up but...to wake up forcibly turned into a hot woman with fireproof skin would be pretty fucking amazing...'

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  • AnoXia @xiacobalt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2025

    Circa 2012 I was on a double date, a movie night. My gf and I had been together a while, her roommate was having a second date with a girl. The film he picked was The Skin I Live In (2011). Which was a wild choice. However he might have saved things if he wasn't insistent on how much he liked it.

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  • Dyke Ehrmantraut @ch1canery.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2025

    The Skin I Live In is a really weird movie for a cis man to make just saying...

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  • T.F. Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ @tfemily.comBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    Movie review for 2011's La piel que habito (aka The Skin I Live In) This one is a body horror flick. A very talented surgeon is holding a woman prisoner, using her as a test subject for a synthetic skin. #moviereview #bodyhorror #tftg #tgtf #MtF tfemily.com/Emily/journa...

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  • The Naked Gambler @nakedgambling.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    I'm sure you've seen it, but just in case, The Skin I Live In. It's more of a thriller I suppose but it has the soul of a horror movie. The Wailing is great too but you've probably seen it also.

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on October 14! What's your fave? 1. The Shawshank Redemption 2. The Skin I Live In 3. The Accountant 4. Innocent Voices 95 #Drama movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/oct-14?sort=ranking#drama #FilmSky

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Horror Movies Released on October 14! What's your fave? 1. The Skin I Live In 2. Pumpkinhead 3. New Nightmare 4. The Thing 41 #Horror movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/oct-14?sort=ranking#horror #FilmSky

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  • Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Intro from artist, filmmaker and author Maz Murray ... Funeral Parade Almodovar's THE SKIN I LIVE IN (2012) @princecharlescinema.com Sep 15, modeling sicko thriller on Lang’s Scarlet Street or House by the River) and, more Franju’s eerie Eyes Without a Face princecharlescinema.com/film/3161748...

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