SKINNED DEEP

Submitted by Absolute Horror panelist 385-horror

I came across this movie reading one of the previous issues of Fangoria. If you are a regular reader, you know that they tend to feature strange movies and SKINNED DEEP is definitely one of the stranger ones. I have managed to watch it twice in a week, first time alone, and the second one with a couple of friends, aficionados of strange cinema.  It starts up as a badly shot TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE wannabe clone, but after about ten minutes of watching, I just opened my mouth in a WTF way and just stared toward my TV.  I was wondering if the author (screenwriter, producer, director all in one person) had a 24/7 week of LSD usage or what? Let's go into some details...

For the starters, the movie looks like a cheapo crossover between HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, the afore-mentioned TCM, BASKET CASE and some random motorcycle gang movie (yes I know you now have a big question mark in front of you, read on). To cut the story short, a family is driving through the outback of the USA Because of human interaction, their car tire goes flat on them, so Dad walks a couple of minutes away and finds a diner.  Some cute old (cute+old - ?! guess not) granny invites him and his family to dinner.  They of course go and enter a creepy house where the family is seated at the table.

Here is where things go LSD on us: granny introduces them to the rest of the family: Surgeon General, copy of Doctor Satan from Rob Zombie's first flick, who has a human face glued over his jaws; The Brain, strange hillbilly with an extremely large brain; and, watch out now, Plates, a midget with nails colored white, an extremely pale face and, watch out again, a passion for throwing saucers like frisbees (?!).  By the way, this character is played by Warwick Davies, more famous as the Leprechaun from the (in)famous series.

In a very short period, the unsuspecting family is slaughtered, the only survivor is the daughter, the teenage Tina.  She is kept alive as a pet to Brain.  Additionally, the family kills a motorcyclist which causes an upcoming battle with a motorcycle gang.  Should I mention that the moto gang is called "the ancient ones?" Where "ancient" is related to their age group :) Just imagine the epic combat: 70-year-old-who-barely-walks vs. saucer-throwing-midget. The result is almost like Peter Jackson’s BRAIN DEAD.

Some of the strange scenes from SKINNED DEEP include puking on the camera from the bird's eye perspective, a fully naked guy with an extremely large brain running through the streets of a crowded city, a villain called Creator who is located inside the torso of a headless body builder with dynamite in his shorts, and more.  Groovy isn't it? :)  These are just some of the scenes that are bad, worse, funny, sick and strange.  If you host a party and like strange movies, this is the one for you!

RATING: *** (out of four)

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