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" Esquire&amp;#039;s 2013 Sexiest Woman Alive, Scarlett Johansson, gets rather weird (but she&amp;#039;s still sexy!) in the movie Under the Skin, expanding to theaters across the country throughout April, in which she portrays a slithering alien disguised as a human who seduces and then murders men in Scotland. In Her, Johansson demonstrated that she could make men do her bidding just by talking; in Skin, she exchanges her husky Her voice to manipulate men in corporeal form. Hollywood&amp;#039;s delved into interstellar romantic relationships a lot \u2014 the &amp;#039;80s and early &amp;#039;90s were the heyday of this genre. Films like Starman and Edward Scissorhands elevate the human-attracted-to-an-otherworldly-creature scenario to emotional levels, while comedic movies such as The Man with Two Brains and My Stepmother Is an Alien spin the displacement into comedy gold. These movies seem to say that loving a nonhuman can be treacherous yet life-altering, but just to be safe, it&amp;#039;s probably best to stick with human relationships. Here are some of the more interesting examples mostly from that era. Duck on Woman: Howard the Duck (1986)  Let&amp;#039;s be frank: Howard the Duck is an awful film \u2014 sometimes in a good way but mostly in a bad way. For starters, the entire duck-out-of-water story is laced with sleaze, especially the simpering between the sardonic Howard (who&amp;#039;s not a cute mallard duck, but a midget in a Donald Duck-like costume kind of duck) and his earthling friend, the punk rocker and crimped-haired Beverly (Lea Thompson). After he&amp;#039;s accidentally beamed to earth from Duckworld (home to Playduck magazine and duck boobies), Howard and Bev almost commit zoophilia, aka bestiality. The most unnerving scene occurs when Bev, dressed in nothing but sexy undies and a crop-topped camisole, half-joking tries to seduce Howard, who responds by literally ruffling his feathers (yunno, a duck erection). Instead of committing the act that&amp;#039;s illegal in 37 states (but legal in 13 states!), they instead share a tender smooch. After battling a dark overlord, Howard forgoes returning to Duckworld to stay on earth and jam in Beverly&amp;#039;s band. Man on Mermaid: Splash (1984)  The &amp;quot;a mermaid meets a heartbroken New Yorker and shows him how to love&amp;quot; logline is really just an excuse for Daryl Hannah to run around butt-naked, but at least she&amp;#039;s really good at it. Unbeknownst to Allen Bauer (a skinny Tom Hanks), he meets Madison (Hannah) when he falls into the ocean at Cape Cod, as a kid. As an adult, he again stumbles into the water. Because he can&amp;#039;t swim, Madison comes to his rescue and pulls him ashore. He&amp;#039;s doesn&amp;#039;t know she&amp;#039;s a mermaid \u2014 she only grows a tail when she&amp;#039;s immersed in water \u2014 but decides her naivet\u00E9 is enough for him to propose marriage only after a few days of knowing her. Eventually Allen unearths her dark secret: &amp;quot;All my life I&amp;#039;ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she&amp;#039;s a fish,&amp;quot; Allen tells his brother (John Candy). Allen accepts her as a sea creature and has to make a decision: throw Madison back into the ocean and never see her again, or exchange his life on land to be with a hot, wet blonde for the rest of his life. (Magically, he can breathe and swim underwater with her.) Like any decent young and horny male, he chooses the latter. Man on Alien: My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)  The &amp;#039;80s were a weird time for human/nonhuman rom-coms, and the Dan Aykroyd-Kim Basinger sci-fi comedy is especially a high point of the era. Scientist single dad Steven Mills (Aykroyd) sends a laser beam to a distant universe, and in response, alien babe Basinger&amp;#039;s sent to earth to investigate the errant science experiment. Like in many films on this list, she tries to assimilate to earth&amp;#039;s culture to a farcical degree, even learning what sex is and then having sex with Aykroyd. Believing she&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;illegal alien&amp;quot; from Holland, he marries her after a few days, but is oblivious to how she never eats food or sleeps, and won&amp;#039;t stop talking to a Cyclops creature inside her purse. &amp;quot;I spent my whole life trying to find life on other planets and when I do, I marry it,&amp;quot; he later laments (a line similar to the one used in Splash). Eventually they live happily ever after, or as happily as one can be in such a situation. Machine on Woman: Edward Scissorhands (1990)  What exactly is Edward? A man, a machine, or Robert Smith? Whatever he is, he falls hard for strawberry-blonde Winona Ryder. At first cheerleader Kim (Ryder) is standoffish toward outlier Edward, but soon finds him to be simpatico, and she subsequently draws away from her crazy boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Michael Hall). Unable to cope with the constraints of the microcosm, Edward must seek shelter back at his castle. In self-defense and also to protect Kim, Ed kills Jim, which coerces Kim to confide her love to Edward. It&amp;#039;s too late, though: The cruel world has rejected him and they&amp;#039;ll never see each other again \u2014 much like in Ryder and Depp&amp;#039;s real-life &amp;#039;90s love affair. (Cue Danny Elfman&amp;#039;s haunting score.) Man on Mannequin: Lars and the Real Girl (2007) / Mannequin (1987)   Sad sack Lars (played by a frumpy Ryan Gosling) can&amp;#039;t relate to his human counterparts, so he orders a RealDoll, or a sex doll named Bianca. His family and friends are concerned with this behavior, but go along with it anyway. Even though Lars isn&amp;#039;t diagnosed, he clearly suffers from agalmatophilia: being sexually attracted to a statue, doll, or mannequin. Through Bianca, he learns to interact with people more and come out of his shell, to the point where he inevitably &amp;quot;kills&amp;quot; Bianca off, buries her, and moves on with his life. Two decades prior, Mannequin also explored forbidden love with a doll. Whereas Lars takes its subject matter seriously, Mannequin takes the slapstick comedy route \u2014 which is actually much more disturbing, especially when window dresser Jonathan Switcher (Andrew McCarthy) has sexual relations with the mannequin (Kim Cattrall) and then marries her. Man on Cat: Cat People (1982)  A loose remake of the original 1942 film, Paul Schrader&amp;#039;s Cat People reimagines the carnal woman who&amp;#039;s really a melanistic leopard as an erotic horror-thriller, with a lot of human flesh. The werecat Irena (emerald-eyed Nastassja Kinski) arrives in New Orleans to meet her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell). Like his sister, he&amp;#039;s a bloodthirsty panther, and he wants to have sex with her. The werecat rules say Irena can only make love to her own kind (other panthers), but if she screws a human, Irena will turn into a panther and can only become human again if she murders a human. Going against the laws of nature, she decides to fornicate with a zookeeper named Oliver (John Heard). She of course turns into a panther (somehow he&amp;#039;s okay with this), murders a hapless victim, has sex with the zookeeper again, and decides she&amp;#039;d rather be with her own cat kind in the zoo. Oliver locks the panther Irena behind bars at his zoo, where he can watch her but no longer screw her. Alien on Woman: Starman (1984)  Starman \u2014 not the Bowie song \u2014 got Jeff Bridges an Oscar nomination for portraying an alien who takes the form of a dead man. A blue ball of energy (Bridges) crash-lands in the backwoods of Wisconsin. After finding a lock of Jenny&amp;#039;s (Karen Allen) dead husband&amp;#039;s hair, Starman morphs into a human version of the deceased husband. Starman needs to get back to his planet soon or else he&amp;#039;ll die, so he forces Jenny to drive him to Arizona, where he&amp;#039;ll meet his spaceship. Along the way, she teaches him about life on earth and she falls in love with the alien-husband. She explains to him she&amp;#039;s infertile, but they make love and he tells her he impregnated her with his alien-human love child, because Jeff Bridges is the man. The couple dodges the military long enough to get him to the spaceship where they confess their love and say their goodbyes against Jack Nitzsche&amp;#039;s riveting score. Man on Brain: The Man with Two Brains (1983)  Brain surgeon Dr. Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) performs his &amp;quot;cranial screw-top zip-lock&amp;quot; brain surgery on an injured and slutty Dolores (Kathleen Turner), whom he then marries not realizing she&amp;#039;s a gold-digging &amp;quot;scum queen.&amp;quot; He befriends Dr. Necessiter and discovers a lab of living brains in jars. One of the brains, Anne (voiced by Sissy Spacek), starts communicating telepathically with Dr. Hfuhruhurr, and he falls in love with her. When Dolores spies the couple enjoying time on a rowboat (Anne&amp;#039;s still in a jar, mind you), she plots to destroy the happy couple. Merv Griffin ends up murdering Dolores (don&amp;#039;t ask), allowing the doctor to finally have what he wanted all along in a wife: hot body, smart brain. Of course in a cruel twist of fate, soon after when Anne is implemented into Dolores&amp;#039;s body, Dolores gains a lot of weight. But, the doctor has learned that even a fat Kathleen Turner is better than most things. Alien on Woman: Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)  Geena Davis stars as a Valley Girl who&amp;#039;s engaged to a douche doctor. When Valerie gives up on finding Mr. Right, a trio of anthropomorphic aliens (Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey, and Jeff Goldblum) crashes their spaceship into her pool, hoping to find hot babes on earth. The hirsute and candy-colored creatures don&amp;#039;t understand English at first, but Valerie teaches them the American customs and makes them look more like Los Angeles humans. Valerie discovers she likes Mac (Goldblum) and has sex with him because he didn&amp;#039;t know what it was (likely story). As the aliens board their spaceship to head back to outer space, Valerie pleads to Mac: &amp;quot;I love you! Take me with you,&amp;quot; and flies off with him, leaving her fianc\u00E9 behind. At the time, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum were married in real life. They also previously worked together on the grotesque man-becomes-insect thriller The Fly. Man on Replicant: Blade Runner (1982)  Like Her, Blade Runner takes place in the not-too-distant-future of Los Angeles and involves a romance between a human and a robot \u2014 in this case, a replicant (robots that look and act human). Blade Runner (a police officer) Deckard (Harrison Ford) must track down a few replicants and &amp;quot;retire,&amp;quot; or kill, them. He meets Rachael, a woman who thinks she&amp;#039;s human but is actually a replicant he&amp;#039;s suppose to retire. After she saves his life, he gets involved with her emotionally and physically (aka robot fetishism). There are several different endings to the various versions of Blade Runner, including one in which Deckard and Rachael drive away together into the mountains (&amp;quot;the happy ending&amp;quot;), and one in which it&amp;#039;s implied Deckard is a replicant, too. Either way, robot love wins. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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