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Skinner
A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he mutilated who is now looking for revenge.
| Release : | 1993 |
| Rating : | 5.1 |
| Studio : | A-Pix Entertainment, Cinequanon Pictures International Inc., 5 Kidd Productions, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Ted Raimi Traci Lords Ricki Lake David Warshofsky Richard Schiff |
| Genre : | Horror |
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Reviews
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Around the time that Ivan Nagy got in trouble along with girlfriend Heidi Fleiss, he found time to grind out this sleazy SILENCE OF THE LAMBS ripoff. Ted Raimi rents a room from frustrated housewife Ricki Lake (who's a sight to behold in tent dresses and stupid-looking ankle socks.) He sneaks out each night with his skinning knives and keeps the prostitute population down, then wears the hair and hides of his victims. Meanwhile, he's being stalked by Traci Lords as a black-clad, disfigured morphine addict. (This character, an ex-prostitute, is named Heidi.) At one point the killer changes his MO long enough to slay and flay an annoying African-American; he then runs around in the dude's skin talking with a black accent. Carrying the tasteless episode further, a watchdog devours part of the hide and becomes ill. Very little violence is shown, considering the inherently gruesome subject matter, but SKINNER has the sort of slimy, grungy "overall tone" that gives conniption-fits to the MPAA. Rent it and you'll never forget itthough Ricki Lake would appreciate it if you did.
This Horror film really surprised me, it was so much better than I had expected. It had nudity, bloody special effects, a pretty good storyline and the is some character development. It wasn't scary at all, just well made.Ricky Lake and Traci Lords were great,but the movie is all about Ted Raimi as the crazy guy who enjoys wearing the skins of his victims. Mostly he kills prostitutes.Ms. Lake plays a married woman who rents a room out to psychotic Raimi.Ms. Lords plays a previous (disfigured)victim looking for Raimi to avenge herself.
No, not really! But it's up there. Everything about this movie is bad. The "plot" makes no sense at all, it leads nowhere and the effects are there, but are nothing special. Ted Raimi and Lakes performances are almost acceptable, but Lords "performance" is the worst ever. I have seen vaccum cleaners with more talent! I can not warn you enough about this crap. And DO NOT buy the DVD from Simitar! There is only one thing worse than the picture quality and the sound, and that's the cover illustration. Holy s... it's ugly. Only 81 min. and NOT 90 min. as it should have been.I have only seen one movie worse than this: Jesus Franco's Oasis of the Zombies... So stay away from both...
Anyone who's seen horror movies & loved them as gory as can be... You've got to see this one! I've always loved those movies where you couldn't guess the endings...& Ted Raimi is added pleasure!
