Skinner (1993)

As Good As It Gets

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This film suffers from chronic sound problems. There is an echo on half of it. Now you may be thinking it's just my video, well I got the DVD as well and it's the movie! Really shoddy, but anyway. The film has a great premise and Ricki Lake and Ted Raimi are okay in it. Poor Traci Lords takes it a little over the top and it comes off as a bit amaturish. There is one disturbing seen involving Traci's character, Heidi, that freaks me out. It's when she stabs the needle in her and lets out this scream. It's pretty effective so she deserves some credit for that scene at least. The skinning scenes don't get good for a while but bear with the film for them because they are really sick. Also watch out for Skinner running around in a black guy! Literally! It's truly gross!

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.

I am also a big fan of Ted Raimi, and this was his finest hour. He stars as the sick and depraved Dennis Skinner, who passes off sort of as a geekish type of guy, friendly to just about everyone. Untill mid-day night, he goes out after hookers and brutally kills them and skins them, for his own sick plessure. Also starring Ricki Lake, Richard Schiff and Traci Lords (who not to bring down the movie, performance was terrible.) **1/2 out of 4.

I loved Ted in it, he's funny, charming,etc...I do think the movie needed more blood though...It was very interesting to see Ted Raimi act out a crazy comedy/horror like that! My sister rarely like any actors that I like,but he's one she said knows how to act!That's all you have to know to know how great this movie is, I won't say much, because I hate when people tell me too much about a movie I haven't seen yet!Skinner Rules!!!!