Skinned Deep (2004)

This is by far the best "so bads its good" film I've seen.Because; the lead villain is seriously cool, the others are brilliant as well, stuff explodes, stuff bleeds, Warwick Davis throws plates at people.It is possibly the most fun film I've ever seen and I really enjoyed drinking my beer and watching this trippy film. Not only does it show all the cool things I expect from these films, but it kept it up throughout the entire film. In my collection (mainly consisting of bad shark movies) the majority of the film is usually spent waiting for cool stuff to happen.I cant explain it... just watch it!!10 out of 10 (if I didn't have a beer 1 out of 10)

Skinned Deep is a very odd little film. There is no question that the film transcends the usual straight to DVD Blockbuster fare, as the screenplay (pretty clever), characters (which, aside from a few clichéd elements of their composition, are extremely original and terrifying, if only for the sheer bizarreness of their behavior. The film is 1000 times creepier than Rob Zombie's idiotic House of 1000 Corpses (when will that moron figure out that no matter how much of a fan of the genre he may well be, he sucks as a filmmaker?), even though it was shot on a miniscule fraction of the budget. If you like those sleeper gems of the horror genre, cooked up by half-mad geniuses with vision, intellect, courage, and a lot of raw intuition about the very nature of horror (which lies, I believe, in our deeply seated fear of all that can go wrong when our normally reliable assumptions about reality are called into serious question), then this movie is for you. If Basket Case, The Deadly Spawn, Deliverance, Spider Baby, etc. appeal to you, then you'll like this one too.

I love male frontal nudity in film and the horror genre in general. When I read that "Skinned Deep" was a combination of the two -- AND had Fangoria's name attached to it! -- I immediately went out and rented it.I spent more minutes renting this film than I did watching it.This is an appallingly bad film. After barely thirty minutes, I'd had enough. I dig good horror/comedy. I enjoy clever spoofs of horror movie convention (and would love to see a parody in which screeching cats keep leaping into frame accompanied by LOUD JOLTS OF MUSIC, thus killing off both of those exasperating gimmicks for good). I can suspend my disbelief if the film is directed carefully. What I cannot accept is stupidity. I gave this film a chance, but after a while the actions of the characters overwhelmed any sense of goofiness that it might have achieved. Peter Jackson could have made this work; as directed, "Skinned Deep" offered nothing to keep me watching for another hour. What should have been a joyfully grotesque meal sequence left me wondering, "Are these people really this oblivious?" After one character makes an escape yet is still stranded in the building in which something horrible has happened, why would this person begin calling out for help, especially when the room s/he sees below looks like something out of the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"? Perhaps this movie found its footing and became entertaining; "Dead & Breakfast" certainly started out mediocre for its first half-hour but then became quite fun. However, "Skinned Deep's" clichéd opening situation (the car of vacationing white people breaks down and a family of crazies take them into their home) followed by overacting and illogical behaviour offered no incentive for me to find out. I fast-forwarded to the frontal nude scene and returned the film to the rental store.It is sad that having "Fangoria's" name attached to a horror film offers no more promise than that of the name "Sam Raimi." At least in Fangoria's case, "Skinned Deep" wasn't trimmed down to a PG-13.

This movie was horrible, and there isn't much else I can say about it. The cover of this movie looks promising, as the menacing looking Surgeon Generals face appears on the front. But let me tell you people who haven't seen this movie yet, do not watch it, for even the horrifying face of the Surgeon General cannot save this movie. Its about a girl who's family gets killed, and one of the sons of the "creator" who we meet at the very end of the film, decides he wants to keep her as a pet, right after the brother is sliced in half. The acting in this movie was horrible, the main character Tina did not seem to have any emotion after seeing her parents killed. The death scenes are lame, especially those of the mutants, and the only character that was enjoyable in this movie was the Surgeon General. I would like to see the Surgeon General in another movie, one with a better director and a better storyline. As for the rest of the characters and the movie itself.... to hell with them all. This movie made really no sense whatsoever, and the acting is horrible. I think actor Warwick Davis made a horrible decision in playing in this movie, because from what I know, Warwick was the only actor in this film that had a notable filmography, appearing in the Leprachaun movies as the Leprachaun. The only reason you should ever want to see this movie is if you want to see an example of a horrible storyline. I could go on forever about how horrible this movie was, but if you don't trust my judgment, go rent it yourself. Guaranteed you would've thanked me if you listened.