Skinned Deep (2004)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This movie starts of really bad like Troma wanted to make a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Rip Off. An incredibly stupid family gets lost in nowhere and meets a creepy family who happen to kill them. Creepy? I meant to write "cheesy"... there's an evil granny, a guy with a huge brain who adopts the surviving daughter, a hyperactive midget throwing dinner plates and a maniac in the vein of House of 1000 corpses with a bear trap in his face (and the subjective view like in "Predator"). Now when this isn't odd enough the movie puts scene on scene which just makes you wonder if this is a satire or a real bad slip on a Maniac-Hillbilly Movie. The gore is pretty rare and reminds of old "Bad Taste" days, especially with the exploding heads. But the humor is just insane in this movie... a bunch of bikers come to help the girl but they are all from the retirement home and call themselves "The ancient ones". Now you get exploding seniors and a senile bum beating up the midget and ripping his head off to play football with it. Sounds insane?? Then meet "The creator", a headless muscle hunk in a strip show style environment where his offspring breeds. He is not just flexing his muscles but also talking some incredible philosophic bullshit. Oh and his crotch sais "dyno-mite"... now guess what the girl finds in it later to launch some explosives and real cheesy FX?!? "Skinned Deep" is an insane or rather schizophrenic movie... it slides between classic horror, total trash (the bum fight reminded me a lot of the "Street Trash" style), over the edge politically incorrect humor like Troma delivers it and a mixture of real bad camera and effects and some pretty decent shots and splatter or explosive effects. One minute you want to turn the movie off, the next you smile because of the absolute insanity of it. The movie ends with the typical "sequel awaiting" finale but tops it off with the credits rolling on the girl screaming for several minutes in an incredibly funny way. I couldn't help but laugh there. If you dig trash with a strange sense of humor you might dig this movie... its different for sure. Anyway I don't know if I want to slap the makers for this piece or shake hands for creating something uniquely stupid that somehow managed to keep my attention till the end. I don't really know what happened here.

To start the review of this movie, I have to make one thing known. Two friends of mine were on a mission to find the worst movie ever. They picked this up from the store. Late one night, we decided to watch it. Well, not knowing what to expect, it opens to this scarring scene, prompting one of the four of us to leave. "I'm not in the mood for a horror movie." he said. It's too bad, too. Because this isn't a horror movie. It's a horrible one. Onto the review.Basically, the box offers scenes of gore, and if you like gore, you may be led to believe this movie has something to offer you. But, unfortunately, none of the gore is actually shown until the end of the movie, and what's on the box is as gory as it gets. The rest of the movie consists of crazy family chasing chick, or old people fighting monster people. The only scene that isn't, is where Brain, a very cunning character with a large head, decides to reveal his true dream...to run naked through Times Square. And the movie shows this. For five minutes. For the first two, you're sitting there, "Please take his stuff off the screen." It finally leaves. You are thanking the movie creator. Then it comes back. For another two. Really, other than that, and some gore at the end, this concludes the movie. If you add where the lips don't match the dialog, and some quiet sound, it becomes fantastically horrible. I'd recommend seeing this, if only to let everyone know that you, too, can make it.

What a great B movie, it had all the potential to become an A movie if the acting was a little bit better. But the story and the character "General" is great and weird at the same time.You can easily give this a bad vote, but look past it and see it as something that is for your pleasure: a true sick and disturbing movie with some great characters like Warwick Davis (Leprechaun) as Plate, this is really a sick person ;-) I would like to see a sequel!And there is gore all over the movie from a family to a couple of old bikers that cruise around and stop for a coffee. Try this one and if you are a true horror fan, you will like it.

Skinned Deep is a amateur, home-made movie. Fangoria supported this movie and probably fronted the marketing and advertising costs, but this is no different than an undergrad trying to make a movie. Do not be fooled by the Fangoria label. Its a trick and I fell for it.My biggest gripe with this movie is the director. He was lazy and disorganized from beginning to end. I could not get over the fact that the audio was off and very low. The sound guy should get a new hobby. The editing was just the worst. I hadn't seen anything like this. To think that this movie made it to the shelves of Blockbuster can only give hope and provide inspiration to any dreamer looking to make films, if only for a weekend.Plot: Demented family wearing obvious prosthetics goes on killing spree. Midget with white face paint throwing plates. PLATES!!! No rhyme or reason behind anything. If there was, I couldn't hear it because the sound was so low.I cannot appreciate, respect, or give the light of day to such pathetically thoughtless, lazy drivel of a script and story. I was expecting bad, but not this.Save your money, because even if you like bad movies, you won't like this one.