Skinner
Skinner
R | 01 October 1993 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
filippaberry84 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.
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
zmoviefan 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.
dbkimbro Now...I am a HUGE Ted Raimi fan, and I bought this movie under the assumption that this highly underrated actor would be in a starring role and make a worthwhile movie. However, this is not the case. Although this movie had promise, the script needed work (to say the least), the audio track was terrible, and I sense that there was a lot of poor editing done, because it was full of plot holes. The only thing I really learned was that the skin of the bully that the dog ate must have been poisonous, because I can think of NO OTHER REASON why the dog died. Its really a shame, too, since poor Ted has not been offered more leading roles because he is immensely talented. I'm just sorry that his brother's perpetual habit of putting him in the background drove Ted to this during his early career. Tracy Lords mumbled her way through, and I wondered how in the hell a DVD has a video roll in it. I guess I'll just swallow my $9.00 loss (at least the shipping was free), and be glad that there is better Ted Raimi fare out there.
ihateeverymovieisee 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.
Cronen_Berg 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.