Product Details

• Actors: Ted Raimi, Ricki Lake, David Warshofsky, Richard Schiff, Traci Lords
• Directors: Ivan Nagy
• Writers: Paul Hart-Wilden
• Producers: Brad Wyman, Dan Sales, James H. Rutt, Jeff Pollon, Mark Beychok
• Format: Color, Special Edition, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Allumination Filmwor
• VHS Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630410085X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,134 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Silence of the Lambs Too, July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Skinner (DVD)

A low rent, horribly written, acted, and directed exploitation film, Skinner tries to be "Silence of the Lambs Too", with "Xena's" Joxer (Ted Raimi) as Dennis Skinner, the Buffalo Bill character who likes to skin his victims and play dress up, and Traci Lords as the female protagonist determined to track him down. Apparently, (this is never explained in the story) Lords' character was one of Skinner's victims who managed to escape before he finished the dirty deed. She has nasty scars on her arm and leg and has to inject herself with something, presumably to ease the pain. Throughout the movie, she either stands in water or limps around muttering threats of revenge, mostly unintelligible as the audio in this movie sucked. Worse still, the DVD has visible frame roll. Don't bother.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An interesting failure, May 17, 2001

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badgermonk - See all my reviews

This review is from: Skinner [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Worth watching once to see the movie it might have been. An amazing performance from Raimi, who slides deftly among the layers of the psychopathic title character without once overplaying his hand in a truly chilling performance. Ricki Lake is also subtle and effective as the unhappy landlady with a slowly growing attraction for her strange boarder. Unfortuately, the high-caliber performances are wasted on a meandering script and unfocused direction -- and a fatally slow pace which destroys any interest we might have in what's going on. As for the gore, it isn't that it's too much, it's that it's not enough. Too little and too late, it's almost half-an-hour before we know anything more about the movie than what we read on the box, and by then we're no longer interested. A shame, and most of the people involved deserved better.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DVD is EDITED, March 9, 2000

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frankenberry (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Skinner (DVD)

The DVD is the EDITED R-rated version and is missing all the intense gore effects in the original "unrated" VHS release. It's also an awful transfer so avoid at all costs. The uncut VHS version is definitely worth a look, though....even if just for the excellent grue.