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Skin Flick

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Yes, this movie isn't for everyone. Anyone who knows Bruce LaBruce, knows these are the kind of movies he makes. You don't watch this particular film for its cinematography or stunning dialogue- frankly, you watch it for the porn. And if you have skinhead fetish, this will definitely satisfy it. It IS hardcore and rough, and I really did enjoy it (many times). It sounds like some of the people that reviewed this film were expecting something more "indie" or "low-budget" kind of movie. Well, it is indie and low-budget, but it's a porn movie, NOT a regular movie (though I think it is masked as one from the descriptions).

This is LaBruce's first hardcore porn aside from the other "softer" ones. There is one particular violence scene where the group of skinheads break into a salt-and-pepper couple's home and torture them. That did make my jaw drop thinking "can they really show that?" But then you realize what you're watching and not take it too seriously.

All in all, it was really campy, bad dialogue, bad acting, but fantastic looking men, and steamy scenes, with an actually decent soundtrack behind it. So, if you're into skinhead sex, this is for you.

I honestly had no idea what I was getting when I got this movie, reccomended to me from someone else, I went on that and bought it, I was absolutely shocked when I started watching it.

Very graphic sexually, and the slurs are a little hard to hear constantly but some of the scenes are pretty darn hot and the music in it is actually pretty good..

If your into the more obscure cultish flicks, and like Bruce La Bruce and Steve Masters, then you'll probably think this movie is ok.

thats all I can really say about this flick..

Worth owning? No...

Worth watching at least once? yes...

I rented this film, thinking it was a bad-ass kind of gang film.

Therefore, I was extremely surprised when all the gay sex started kickin' in.

The sex scenes were awfully realistic and long; I would classify this film as a violent porn film.

For a straight person like me, it was an eye-opener--really intense stuff.

I felt like I took a peep into the world of gay sex.

The film was good, as an experience.

This movie was very interesting. I thought the story line was okay, some of the scenes were very hot, but the director really guards against showing the completion of the sexual act, i.e. the money shots. Other than that, it was an interesting movie. I wish you could have a moment to actually focus on the sex but there are so many cut aways from the sex scenes and then cuts back to the sex scenes that it can be a little disorienting sometimes. Maybe that's what was intended. I hope this director, although he wants to be known simply as an artist, realizes that profit for his work is also important and he will begin to incorporate extended scenes that actually show the beauty of the bodies colliding and allows the artistic viewer to actually see the completion, in its entirety, of the act between the actors.

`Skin Flick` is another of Canada`s own (and proud of him!) Bruce LaBruce`s low-budget, high interest films, unpredictable and funny-savage at the same time. The movie, apparently a less hardcore, less gritty version of LaBruce`s own `Skin Gang` (but still quite tough!) is about skinheads (and, indeed, several of LaBruce`s other films feature skinheads or punks) and their conflicted love-and-loathing for themselves and for each other as well as for `non-skins`. There are rough tensions, violence, and even murder; the lattermost occurs when two non-skinhead gay (racially mixed) male lovers get the upper hand, thus `turning the tables` on their assailants who have been bashing them (and, with racist verbal abuse, raping the black one), but this is all part of the film`s quirky entertainment along its way (all the more quirky, and potentially fraught with danger, since, despite his traumatic rape, the black boy continues, at the film`s very end, libidinously to oggle skinhead boyflesh passing him along the sidewalk!).

The film`s action can be difficult to follow at some points as the camera changes views quickly, especially in the scuffle that results in the murder where it can be hard to tell who does what to whom. It is recommendable to read the synopsis of the film with a substantial (but really too misconceivedly negative) review by Jos Arroyo, as they appear on the B.F.I.`s (British Film Institute`s) WWW site, either before seeing the film (if one does not mind having the action `given away` beforehand) or afterwards (to clear up questions that might occur while having watched it).

The guys in the cast are physically attractive each in his own way and they most surely know how to look good buck-naked to copulate with considerable vigour and flair, the rough and cheap film-making not compromising any of that, one may rest assured.

A British prelude to The Raspberry Reich, this work is rather satire on a mother country than a copycat of A Clockwork Orange, in which local UK fascism, Euro-multiculturalism, sex and lust -all mixed in a well shaken cocktail of a laugh and rude humor.

Professional presentation of serious issues, easy watching.

I have never seen a movie by this director before and was quite impressed on the take he took over the characters and their storyline. The beginning is quite different but the randomness makes up for it.

bruce, you've give us another real treat here. typical indie production from labruce, but man is it hot. lot's of fun, definitely leaves you wanting much more. it is what it is, and it is sexy

Bruce LaBruce where are you ?? this is a great film. Loved all the boys

and it was absolutely hilarious in places. so far i consider this the 2nd best of bruces film, after Strawberry Reich. haven't seen his new

** OTTTO ** , yet but should be good. you can't go wrong with this one if you are a bruce fan.

Actually tried to order Skin Gang, which is apparently unavailable. This movie has hot, heavily edited, HEAVILY edited, sex scenes with skin head types, with each other and an inter-racial couple. This dvd is hot, but always pulls back or "lower screens" out the best parts, i.e. the money shots. Heavy foreplay, as opposed to the actual act.