Winterskin

This movie could have been a blockbuster, if Bentley's role was played by Kathy Bates. Now, don't get me wrong, Rowena Bentley is a superb actress, but in my opinion, not for this part. Southern accent just did not fit her, neither did her make-up. Although a lot of effort was given to produce this movie, sad to say, just did not grab me.

How is it possible... i mean, oh my god! The actors are so bad, that you can't take the story serious. 1 hour and 24 minutes are better spent in the trunk of a car.

That was... Bland and boring!

The lighting effects were really strange too... too much yellow/orange lightings. I don't know if that was intended but it felt so weird I almost thought the color settings of my TV were messed up.

I somehow managed to watch it entirely, but I'm glad it was not a 2 hours+ movie... one and a half hour is already enough time wasted.

I'm usually not too picky when I listen to "low budget" horror movies. I'm really easy to be satisfied with pretty much anything, even if it is not realistic at all, but that one was just... awful.

Maybe it's just not my cup of tea, but I'm wondering who the hell could really ENJOY that movie.

In the first scene, we've got some sort of skinless, crazed ghoul wielding an axe to break a down a cabin door, then he supposedly shoots the occupants, each bullet generating a quick, gushing bucket of blood, then the ghoul crawls from behind the couch growling (apparently people don't bleed to death after being skinned alive, and they can survive in winter conditions). Next, we see a man and his son hunting deer without any weapons. They get separated and the kid gets shot by a crazy old crone (with a bad American accent) and winds up in her cabin. After that, I don't know what happened because I stopped watching the movie (about 10 minutes is all I could stand).

Reads summary, sees movie, in the famous words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, "You lie!"

I know a horror movie should be suspenseful, building itself up to reveal the monster or whatever in a climax then get a good ending out of it, but to mislead their audience to do ruins the experience and feels completely cheap. It sure is much more cheaper than the movie's special affects that is for sure. The acting is awful, the main character to be completely overtaken by the "monster" is... it does not make any sense. Physically it does not make sense, but it has to be put there or else the story won't continue forward. Deus ex machina event right there to the extreme.

If I were to see the movie without reading any summary, I wouldn't be as mad as I am right now since the plot in the movie is completely different than what the summary says. They hoodwinked me, skinned me before my eyes into watching this lie of a film.



The real summary should have been like "Hunters looking for serial killer gets separated in the cold of winter and encounters something they weren't prepared for." Was that so hard to think of? And the cover art for the movie should be replaced too to avoid the lies and confusion the movie causes too. I expected skinless monsters not this crap.



TL;DR: The whole summary of the movie is a lie and the movie itself is as bad too, save yourself the time to do something else. The director of this disaster deserves to be banned from the movie business. Hell, all this lying makes them great to be a politician.