Skinner (1993)

A lot of fun.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I bought this video. Ricki Lake rents out a room to a maniac. He's Skinner. Dennis Skinner. Skinner likes to wander from town to town, flaying whomever he can find. He likes to hang out in a heavily vandalized part of town where the hookers hang out. If a hooker meets Skinner, it's flaying time. One of his old victims, (Traci Lords), is hunting him down. She wants revenge for the partial skinning from Skinner. Get the knives ready."Skinner" made me think about the Superintendent yelling at Principal Skinner on "The Simpsons". SKINNNNNERRR!!!! I couldn't help but laugh every time they said his name. "Where's Skinner?" SKINNNNERRR!!! Get down here!Traci Lords shows up as an obsessive, would-be victim of SKINNNNERRR! Unfortunately, she does not get naked. However, I still like to see porno stars in regular flicks. It amuses me. I especially liked the scene where Lords shows Lake's husband her serial killer war wound. That was a serious scalping job."Skinner" has the right psychotic mind-set for a maniac with big knives movie. Skinner is a first class psycho who likes to skin his female victims. There's one scene in the middle which has an extensive, gory lesson in the art of flaying. Overall, "Skinner" is worth a look for horror fans.

Skinner is a film wherein Ted Raimi goes around, cutting off skin of girls and then wearing the skin. This has SOMETHING to do with Traci Lords, who spends most of the film lying in her bed, half-naked, rolling around, and masturbating to Ted Raimi's picture. This involves Ricki Lake, as well, who is dating this abusive guy. He's abusive, I guess, since he wants a clean house. And he is suspicious of Ted Raimi. Ted Raimi just moved in with Ricki, you see. And he got blood on his shirt once, and that's suspicious. Meanwhile, Ted lives a double life as a factory worker. Who kills people. And wears skin. And then has a friendly relationship with Ricki. Before going out. And killing again. And as he kills again, he explains that his dad is the reason he skins people alive. This has SOMETHING to do with Traci Lords being in some water. And as Traci Lords masturbates in the bed, her landlord watches her. Along the way, some black guy gets his skin completely cut off, and Ted Raimi wears it and walks down the street, talking jive, as he stalks another victim. Also, a dog dies from eating skin. And.. uhh... this all turns into an unfun climax that leaves the viewer very unsatisfied.Pretty confusing for only really having 3 characters that do anything. The director made the mistake of muddling up a cool concept with dream sequences, flashbacks, and hiding Traci Lords's face behind her hair. The picture quality is terrible, and the sound quality is worse. There is some decent gore here, but it's not really worth seeking out just for that. Cool concept, not a very cool film.

What a fun little movie. Who would have thought that Sam Raimi's little brother had it in him? He's much more than just a Lunatic or a guy who gets slapped around by big, burly lesbians in leather bustiers every week on TV. Ted plays Dennis Skinner, a fun loving guy who just happens to dig slicing off people's skin and wearing it. Is that so bad? What will be even more frightening for you prudish non-horror fans is that stuff like this really happened back in the 50's in a little town in Wisconsin called Plainfield. Eddie Gein donned a suit of human skin and unwittingly inspired such horror movie classics as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. Ted's great as the creepy homicidal screwball who just looks like your average everyday nerd that nobody would ever suspect of doing such horrible things. Sure, Ricki Lake and Traci Lords are in it, but forget about them! This is TED'S movie! Skinner may be tasteless, extremely graphic, and pretty damn offensive but that just adds to its charm. Rent this one today, kids! Oh, there seems to be a whole lotta running water in this movie for some odd reason...so prepare yourself for frequent trips to the bathroom.

That's the most disgusting and gruesome movie I have ever seen, and it is really sick. Here we have a maniac, who skins hookers (He's last name is Skinner - does that tell you anything?). Then we have his victim Heidi, a hooker too (performed by a pornstar Tracy Lords), who wants to take a revenge on him. And then we have an awful and predictable script, horrible directing, annoying music by Contagion, which sounds like wind in wild woods, and bloody Special Make-Up Effects by KNB EFX Group, but they don't make any sense. This poor low-budget production has the only advantage - it makes some really bad movies look better.