Skinner

SKINNER stars Ted Raimi as Dennis Skinner, a man who just happens to enjoy removing the dermis and epidermis of unsuspecting females. One such female, named Heidi (Traci Lords!), has escaped his clutches, and lives only to see him die. Meanwhile, Dennis moves into a room rented to him by Kerri Tate (Ricki Lake!!). Hitting it off swimmingly, Kerri is unaware of her new boarder's perilous proclivities.

Raimi's character is the seemingly harmless nebbish, springing into lethal action upon getting his victims alone. There is a notorious skinning scene in gruesome detail. This all has to do with Dennis' master plan (hint: think Buffalo Bill from SILENCE OF THE LAMBS).

Disgusting and absurd, this movie will offend just about everyone, especially after Dennis "embodies" one of his male co-workers. Yikes! Shockingly, one of the most sickening scenes involves a raw chicken and a knife from the kitchen floor! Mmm-Mmm!

Ms. Lake is good in her role, dealing with her swine of a husband, as well as her timid, yet terrifying tenant. However, what sets this movie apart from typical gore / horror / schlock is Traci Lords. Her portrayal of "the one that got away", takes us into revenge film territory, and she pulls it off with aplomb! The final conflict could have been better, but this is certainly a bizarre, twisted, early-1990's artifact...

This movie cracked me up! What a fun, trashy little film. Tracy Lords is almost impossible to watch and Ricky Lake is just calling it in. The only reason to watch this flick, in my humble opinion, is for Ted Raimi. Why is this guy not a star? He really gets into his performance in this film. I have always enjoyed him on Xena but Skinner gives him a chance to run with a lead roll. He's a really good actor! And to top it all off he's super cute and his body is sound as a pound! Yowzers!!!!

This is the coolest movie I have ever seen. It takes a porn star and gives her a chance to get vengance on the man whom she took in to her home (she was not a prostitute, but his landlord, like ricki lake) and skinned her while she was still alive. I still want to know exactly how she killed the hotel manager, though. That has always intrigued me.

Skinner feels like someone put a Hitchcockian thriller, a trashy Euro giallo, an 80's slasher movie, and a John Waters movie into a blender and served it up. There are inspired moments and Ted Raimi's performance is interesting and committed, but the film as a whole feels a little wonky like a woman trying to walk with only one stiletto on a rainy evening. One thing is for sure - a scene where Raimi murders a black man and wears his face while taunting another victim with a Fat Albert-esque voice is genuinely unforgettable.

The movie Skinner is about a serial killer who has a disturbing hobby of skinning his victims and then wearing their skin like clothing. To me, that sounds like a credible horror film story line, but the execution of this film was very poor. The acting was unbelievable, the film quality looked like the movie was filmed in the 1800s, and the effects were not good at all. I would not recommend this film to anyone at all for any reason. There are no memorable scenes or lines in this movie, so I'm going to give it a 1 out of 10 star rating.