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Original Title :
Skinned Deep
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Horror
Year :
2004
Directror :
Gabriel Bartalos
Cast :
Les Pollack,Aaron Sims,Kurt Carley
Writer :
Gabriel Bartalos
Type :
Movie
Time :
1h 37min
Rating :
3.9/10
Skinned Deep (2004) Online

A family vacation is turned into a nightmare when they are abducted by a family of deranged killers in this "Texas Chainsaw" style comedy sci-fi horror thriller romantic drama.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Les Pollack Les Pollack - Jed
Aaron Sims Aaron Sims - Surgeon General
Kurt Carley Kurt Carley - Surgeon General
Linda Weinrib Linda Weinrib - Gloria Jean Rockwell
Eric Bennett Eric Bennett - Phil Rockwell (as Eric Scott Bennett)
Lee Kociela Lee Kociela - Matthew Rockwell
Karoline Brandt Karoline Brandt - Tina Rockwell
Jim O'Donoghue Jim O'Donoghue - The sheriff
Liz Little Liz Little - Granny
Warwick Davis Warwick Davis - Plates
Jason Dugre Jason Dugre - Brain (as Jay Dugré)
Bill Butts Bill Butts - Graine
Geraldine Stone Geraldine Stone - Miss M.I.A.
Joe Little Joe Little - Big Joe
Neil Dooley Neil Dooley - Pig Pen

The scarification scene at the beginning is real. Director Gabe Bartalos ran an ad on a fetishist website saying "Human canvas wanted".

This movie was filmed without any permits (except for the explosions at the end). The scene with Brain running naked in Manhattan was not done on a closed set. It was done during rush hour at Times Square. Jay Dugre got arrested while filming that scene. He was caught by undercover police officers.


User reviews

Winawel

Winawel

Skinned deep, this is a masterpiece of bad movie making. To most people, saying that this movie is terrible would be an instant turn off but for me that just sounds like a dare. Enough, about this movie. Its sorta like Rob Zombie's house of 1,000 corpses... well, strike that, its exactly like house of a 1,000 corpses except they had a budget of like 8$. That's slightly unfair, because this did have the star power of Warwick davies. That may sound sarcastic but its not meant to be, Warwick rocks. It also has a guy called Surgeon General who happens to have the coolest mask i've ever seen and some headless guy wearing a belt that proclaims his crotch to be "Dyno-mite". Assuming your still reading this, which may be a mistake on my part, the movie is about a girl whose family is killed in the first 15 minutes of the movie, including her kid brother. Bravo to Skinned deep for breaking rules of killing kids in a monster movie. You should know, in case your mourning the deaths of these imaginary people already, each one of them had it coming. Seeing them die is the first of many oh so rewarding moments in this movie. that moment is in line with a naked man with a gigantic head runningdown a street and a fight between old people and the hick/monsterfamily who really just steal every scene they are in. No part of this movie is a let down, even up to the very end where the best song ever plays through the credits, by song, i mean a girl screaming for like five minutes. I can't urge you to see this any harder, seriously.
Weiehan

Weiehan

This film sucks but is so bad its hugely entertaining. Wait till you see Brain for the first time - don't be drinking cos you will spit it out all over yourself.

The family in the film must be the dumbest bunch of people ever assembled cos for them to believe the story that's fed to em is just ridiculous.

The acting is so bad it rocks, the plot is off it's head and special effects are not special. The Surgeon General in it has the strength of ten tigers too.

Watch it and love it for all the wrong reasons.

Telling it like it is there.
Helldor

Helldor

There's no real plot to the movie. It's just a loose collection of ideas strung together in something resembling a plot. That ultimately makes it one bizarre movie. This rivals a Blood Diner or Ichi the Killer for just sheer strangeness. It's not necessarily good but it isn't bad either. I can't really score it as that would imply this is an actual movie and not some bizarre experiment in performance art gone horribly awry.

The only real gripe to have with the movie outside of the fact that it looks like it was shot on video, is the aforementioned story. Really, it plays like three different movies. The first third is typical slasher sleaze, the middle is some bizarre form of social commentary, and the last third is a survival film. Really I would've tightened the script up and put it more on a Nightbreed route with the daughter eventually accepting the freaks and finish it out in a finale of bikers vs. freaks in an all-out war. But really I'm guessing that wouldn't have worked as it looked like their budget was already being stretched thin.

Consider it one really bizarre movie that was too ambitious for its own good/budget.
Worla

Worla

Let me first start off by saying that Skinned Deep is perfect. Not long ago my friends and I had the idea, on a rainy day, to go rent some horrible looking B movie merely for the laugh factor. While searching Blockbuster we finally decided on Skinned Deep. This movie had everything. We love the fat kid who got cut in half, but somehow it took him a few seconds to realize it. We also loved Plates, the plate throwing midget. His "porcelain" soliloquy made me almost defecate in my pants from laughter. I must say that the Brain character wasn't real interesting, until he ran through the streets of New York nude, for absolutely no reason. (We also saw on the bonus features that they filmed it in New York with real people, and the actor who played Brain even got arrested). However, all of these characters combined don't come close in greatness to our favorite character, Shakes. He had us from "F@ck You". Shakes is a man in his eighties who apparently suffers from some disease that makes him shake uncontrollably, but yet still manages to rip the head off a midget and punt it into the local interstate with a broken foot. If every movie had Shakes in it, I would be a happy man. Overall, the acting was bad (they must of gotten the actors from the Ben Affleck School of Theatre), the special effects were a joke, and the plot was absurd. But in the end, isn't that what you would want from a crappy movie. Kudos, to the director for realizing the potential for comedy. The unfortunate thing about renting Skinned Deep first, is that now every time we try and watch a bad movie for the comedic value, it doesn't compare and we always end up talking about Skinned Deep.
Rindyt

Rindyt

I still remember the General... Nice Jaw, nice overall look. That, and that it was stupid. Very stupid. Bad acting (not as bad as in movies like "Abscent of Light" or "Goth", but stupid), bad music, bad story, lots of gore and goofy characters.

Seriously, the movie is meant to be comedic, or how else could you interpret a wrestling match between a senior citizen and a midget? A plate-throwing dwarf? The grannies and grandpas getting ready for war? The colorful comic - like look? This one never wanted to be taken serious, and as long as you don't, you might enjoy it. If you are indeed looking for a deeper sense or some kind of message, you're completely lost.

Then again, if you dislike cheap splatter movies, why did you even rent it?
Varshav

Varshav

Skinned Deep is a cheesy Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip off with a fair share of gore! It offers funny characters, a typical Texas Chainsaw Massacre rip off plot and an hour and a half of entertainment! Not only there is no nudity, there is also no sleaze climate. The story is about a family that consists of two fat parents, a young brother and a vegetarian older sister who happens to play the main role of the victim that is tortured by the typical deformed family! This deformed family consists of as usually one person who happens to be an old lady. This old lady also happens to be psychotic , but she looks normal, and a bunch of deformed bastards. One of those deformed bastards actually has a sensitive soul. Therefore, the girl victim takes advantage of his sensitive soul for her own survival interest. Later on, a bunch of funky old people declare a war on that deformed family who has killed their buddy. In a nutshell, I suggest you watch this cheesy flick if you enjoy b-grade cheese cinema! And no! It ain't so awful as the films produced by Troma!
Valawye

Valawye

Seriously one of the best movies ever if you like this kind of thing. Do you sharpen your plates? Do you enjoy Christmas lights and skeletons. This is an excellent movie about motorcycles. Have you ever been a hood ornament? Well, let me tell you .... It is AWESOME! You are going to love it!

An enormous, giant brain head in a homemade Indian hat! Headless muscle guy! Blocks for brains! A wiggly midget who throws plates! Guy with metal teeth. Something like a robot, maybe! Octopus baby! Evil old lady who eats blood through her neck! Finger Soup and money.....yum! Blood AND guts! Unnecessary penis flopping in the wind! Dyno-Mite!

I am trying to make this 10 lines long. That is a ridiculous requirement!
Siramath

Siramath

Troma + David Lynch + Texas Chainsaw Massacre = Skinned Deep

Aside from the lead, Warwick Davis and the guy who played Brain, the acting is pretty much awful. It looks like it was shot on video. The majority of the budget looks like it went to the special effects, (which were decent.) (Considering the director is a special effects artist, this was no surprise.) The, uh, story was a bare-bones Texas Chainsaw knock-off. The dialogue zig-zagged between hilarious and cringe-worthy.

Overall, though, I enjoyed it. I hope it gets some kind of DVD distribution, because I would probably buy a copy. It's just so goofy and weird that I couldn't help but smile through it.

"NO! NO! NNNOOOO! NO! NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!! NNOOO! NO!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!"
Gaua

Gaua

This movie was one of the most f***ed up movies I have ever seen. The make-up effects were awesome. Surgeon General was crazy looking, although somewhat reminding me of Balzac the Jaws of Death from GWAR. The quality of video and sound was rather low... but you can't let that make a movie bad. The storyline was awesome. The actors were funny, especially Warwick Davis' role as Plates. It was like nothing I've ever seen before. The gores scene were really well-made, the Grandmother melting after the tube was pulled from her head. A lot of people who seen this movie before told me it was cheesy and stupid... obviously they don't appreciate a creative, unique and fun horror movie,
Gashakar

Gashakar

Imagine if those musical geniuses The Residents attended a film school run by Frank Henenlotter and John Waters. Now, imagine that for their doctoral thesis, they did a remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The result would probably be very close to Skinned Deep. I love The Residents, Henenlotter, Waters and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (TCM), so I was an easy target for this film. However, note that you should approach Skinned Deep with caution directly proportional to how familiar with you are with (and how admirable you are of) those artists (and artworks). This is not a "normal" or "high gloss" production by any stretch of the imagination. It frequently resembles those artists' impassioned rejection of established artistic standards. If you're not attuned to the style, if you're not a fan of rejecting standards in that way (including the standard set forth by the "cult of originality"), if you think that Interview with the Vampire (1994), say, is the sole recent pinnacle of horror films and should be emulated stylistically, Skinned Deep is likely to just seem to you like a crappy, clichéd film with bad acting and questionable technical elements. For me, it's frequently pure genius instead.

The core idea of the film is the same as TCM and many other unofficial "remakes", or "reimaginings", including recent ones like Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses (2003). Basically, a group of "innocent" individuals (this time a family out for a vacation in the mountains of the western U.S.) has a problem while driving through the boonies. They make it to an odd country store/diner, where they're lured to an even odder home. They run into the even odder rest of the family, who invite them to eat cannibal food (this step is optional, but frequently present, as it is here), and who then engage in some combination of kidnapping/killing/torturing the group of innocents, just for the hell of it, basically, but maybe also because they're getting low on meat. Writer/director/producer/loom-operator/cobbler Gabriel Bartalos also throws in a couple elements not usually found in these films, such as the hilarious septuagenarian biker gang, which becomes a major subplot in the climax.

Although some people are sure to complain that this is "just a rip-off of TCM", I think that is misguided at this point in time (if it was ever guided). Genres and subgenres arise through (often conscious) repetitions and variations of elements found in influential precursors. The transition from "rip-off" to "genre" is an ambiguous one in the public consciousness, but could be said to be correlated to the number of "rip-offs" (which are seen as negative) that accumulate. Once there are enough, it becomes a "genre" (which is seen as positive, or at least non-negative). In this respect, it somewhat resembles the "heap paradox" of logic/philosophy. By this point, there are more than enough TCM-like films for it to be considered a legitimate subgenre. The TCM-orientation of Skinned Deep should seem no more negative than, say, the Dracula-orientation of Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), or the Ten Little Indians-orientation of Identity (2003).

Instead, that Skinned Deep is a TCM film enhances it instead, just as any genre orientation for any film does. It situates it in a shared (with the audience) system of signifiers and archetypes that create depth while allowing the filmmaker(s) to concentrate on subtleties and the finer points of style. A lot of impact arises through the ways in which a work differs from the genre. This is no different in Skinned Deep than in well-respected (and deservedly so) artworks such as Igor Stravinsky's Mass, or Francois Boucher's Toilet of Venus, which are examples of fine-grained subgenre works in music and painting, respectively.

Bartalos has created a bizarre concatenation of moods and styles here. Amazingly, they mesh with nary a problem, despite the fact that he transitions on a dime from serious, disturbing scenes of violence and gore to hilarious, surreal scenes such as one featuring of an antagonist freak running naked through crowded city streets. The freaks in Skinned Deep are one of the best collections I've seen in a TCM film, as good as Rob Zombie's Firefly family in House of 1000 Corpses. I especially loved Warwick Davis, who is delightfully campy here. But I have a thing for midgets in films. They almost always bring my score up a point. The costume design for "The Surgeon General" (he's on the DVD cover art) was excellent and somewhat reminiscent of "Dr. Satan" in Zombie's film. Of course, the costume design for Brian/"Brain" was wonderfully, sublimely ridiculous, as was the concept and effects for "The Creator".

The cinematography is as interesting, varied and frequently non-traditional as the moods of the film. There is a lot of well-executed hand-held work, and Bartalos has a Brian Eno-ish knack for capitalizing on "mistakes", which I love. A number of times, weird reflections and lens haze end up creating extremely effective atmosphere. Not leaving tradition completely behind, Bartalos even has a lot of beautiful scenery shots, including passing Joshua trees (I love Joshua trees). And the score is superb and unusual throughout--just check out the bizarre music that enters with the motorcycle gang; it organically grows from the sounds of the engines.

The effects, as well as the production design, were also excellent. Gorehounds should be more than happy. The production design often gives Skinned Deep an extremely dark Alice in Wonderland feel, which is helped by Karoline Brandt's performance as Tina. Of course, many of the performances in the film are questionable by any kind of normal criteria, but for me, they worked superbly. Films like this shouldn't have performances like The Merchant of Venice (2004); it would ruin the gritty, alternate, psycho-world atmosphere. And if all of that's not enough for you, there's even a cameo from Famous Monsters of Filmland founder Forrest J. Ackerman!
Tiv

Tiv

Once again, my assumptions couldn't have been more wrong! I really thought this movie would be worth the 5$ I spent on it, because it's the directorial debut of Gabe Bartalos; who happens to be the regular special effects guy of such brilliant directors as Frank Hennenlotter ("Brain Damage", "Frankenhooker") and Matthew Barney (the "Cremaster"-cycle). Well, "Skinned Deep" once more proves that people who're talented in the art of make-up effects don't necessarily make good directors, as Bartalos' own project is an irredeemable lousy gore-flick that hangs together by amateurism. The script, for starters, is highly unoriginal and just the umpteenth "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"-rip-off. But what really irritates about this movie is the total lack of coherence and the overload of stupidity. "Skinned Deep" revolves on a family of bloodthirsty lunatics that fill their days with killing tourists. Their latest preys are the Rockwells, but the multi-brained son insisted on keeping the teenage daughter Tina alive, and even to incorporate her as a crazy family member! So far, this seems like a reasonably normal horror plot but the depraved family also battles a gang of old and senile motorcycle hooligans as well as a jeep full of chubby woodchoppers, and this is where the absurdity really kicks in. A lot of retarded things are being said and done (ever heard a midget bringing ode to a plate?!?) and even the rather cool gory effects can't keep you interested. The acting is really atrocious and Bartalos' directing is incredibly incompetent. The Surgeon General-character is the only memorable horror villain of the family. He's an unearthly strong mutant with a razor-sharp metal jaw and goofy little sunglasses. Warwick "Ewok" Davis looks pretty imbecile as the pale-faced, plate-flinging dwarf and I don't even want to mention the elderly cast-members. If the acting skills of all these amateurs hasn't given you a headache yet, sitting through the end credits definitely will, as it just features girlish screaming for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES! Damned, girl! You could try, like many of my fellow reviewers apparently did, to look at "Skinned Deep" as a typical so-bad-it's-entertaining trash movie... That didn't work for me, though. It's just rubbish, period!
fightnight

fightnight

I asked myself that question after turning off the DVD player upon my initial viewing of Skinned Deep. Why did I enjoy it? The acting is poor, the direction is shoddy, and the story just isn't there. So why did I find myself totally engrossed in this movie? Because it's FUN! From it's David Lynchian set pieces to the Henenlotter-esquire makeup effects, Skinned Deep is just plain old stupid fun. As long as you don't go in expecting anything other than a movie that's full of gore, bad acting, and stupid fun, you'll have a good time.

This is the best movie Troma never made. How Fango ended up with distribution rights is beyond me. Regardless, kudos to them for giving this film the light of day. I'm happier for it.
Vichredag

Vichredag

unfortunately I could not select a negative number for my vote. The best part of this entire movie was a comment made by one of the gang of bikers (which were all at least 60)... I laughed. The rest of the movie was the absolute worst waste of time in my life. After viewing this total piece of ass waste, the only reason i refrained from shooting myself was I was around other people. Anyone who had anything to do with the making of this movie needs to quit their job, move out of country, and never dabble in film again. If you were unfortunate enough to spend any of your hard earned money on renting this film... i got nothing, this movie was the biggest waste of life ever.
Gelgen

Gelgen

I was watching this movie expecting an amateurish low budget horror flick like Ozone - Attack of the Redneck Mutants or Zombie 90: Extreme Pestilence, but this one is definitely a lot better than those movies.

(minor spoilers) Among other things, we get a midget throwing dinner plates as if they were shurikens, an elderly biker gang, and a Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspired mutant redneck family. Not your usual slasher stuff. The movie also has a few Troma-like jokes, which are actually pretty funny without being too silly.

Since this is low-budget, the camera work and acting are bad (although Warwick Davis as Plates is brilliant).

A fun, weird, original B-horror movie.

Rating: 7/10 (subtract at least 2 points if you're not into low budget stuff, but then you will probably have never heard of this movie)
Rishason

Rishason

I am so psyched. I just watched this flick. This film is an absolute triumph for director Bartalos. It really manages to deliver the goods and is supremely entertaining. And the film is actually very heart-felt and seriously dark, as well. It has "Lynchian" moments, but only in the best way, which the director makes his own. Other influences show - the Mad Max films, Lynch, Jodorowsky, "Chainsaw" - and yet - there is something fresh here. A predeliction for old-codger types results in much hilarity. I found the casting to be inspired throughout. Warwick Davis is pure, unbridled , manic genius in the role of "Plates." The low key take of "Brain" was a wise choice. While the film is gleefully "over the top,' many of the director's choices are not.They are intelligent, skillful and surprisingly artistic. This film will age like a fine wine, I think, though I am already drunk on it.

I found the dubbing, mixed film stocks (the result of years of shooting no doubt) all to the film's advantage. It felt like a renegade mix of all kinds of good stuff, plus surreal-set pieces which only Gabe Bartalos could have envisioned. A scene involving children's wooden spelling blocks comes indelibly to mind. I thought the film was well shot, original, sick, funny, unrepentant and transgressive. This is what "House of 1000 Corpses" wanted to be. Three cheers for Bartalos. May he make more such unforgettable films ever after. Amen!
Danskyleyn

Danskyleyn

First of all, I love bad horror movies. I love mindless splatter flicks, and I've seen many. I am a MST3K and Creature Feature nut. But, this movie is quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. Everyone associated with this movie should be ashamed. The SFX were passable, and I have seen worse, and the main bad guy was kind of cool looking, but these things cannot save this piece of useless tripe. The acting is abysmal, even for a bad horror movie, and whoever wrote this should never work again. Anywhere. Ever. I am ashamed for them. Its only redeeming quality is that it provides the opposite end of the spectrum from bad movies that are worth watching.
Whitecaster

Whitecaster

After her family is murdered, a teenage girl is held hostage by a family of mutant freaks. One of them, Brian, wants her as his bride. "Skinned Deep" is one of those films that will have you're jaw dropped to the floor when it's all over, and you'll be thinking to yourself, "Where the hell do people get money for stuff like this?"

What works in "Skinned Deep"? Well, there's a lot of gore. Slit throats, Exploding heads, severed heads, and even a brain dismemberment (Don't ask) are among the many goodies gore hounds will find. Writer/director/producer/effects artist/control freak Gabriel Bartalos is no stranger to the horror genre, having done the effects for films like Blade (1998), Basket Case 2 (1990) and Brain Damage (1988), so as you can imagine the special effects are the highlight. There are some crazy make-up creations here, my favorite being the main baddie, Surgeon General. There are lots of other memorable characters in the film, like Plates and Brian. The film is hilarious to sit through, intentionally or not. Brian's "dream sequence" and the end credits—which are composed of nothing but the main actress's screaming—had me and my friends on the floor laughing.

Just about everything else in the film didn't work…at all. The acting is bad, the writing is bad, the direction and editing were choppy at best. The film makes no sense at all, but hey it was a fun ride.

Don't expect a serious horror film here, "Skinned Deep" is anything but that. However, rent it with a group of friends and a good time is to follow.

5/10.
Umi

Umi

This wants so bad to be a cult movie, it hurts. And it's painful. On a very physical level. Because that is something I've never agreed with: weird for the sake of weird.

But "Skinned Deep" has another side to it, something I completely agree with, and love. It's a horror fan's horror movie.

The homages are fast and furious. The TCM reference is obvious. I won't even go there. More subtle, but just as strong, is the Henenlotter influence (who is even thanked in the credits). If you know the "Basket Case" flicks, you'll see it. And it is just one of many horror in-jokes.

And that's cool. That's way cool. But that alone won't keep a movie afloat. As a horror fan (which means I've been burned about a million times), I need something more. Character, scares, laughs, gore.

Well, it's got the gore. No problem there. But when it comes to building characters I can root for (either in the heroine or the villains), it falls kinda flat.

Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. The plot, which you may have seen before, goes like this: a family breaks down in the back country and turns to the locals for refuge. But the locals are a crazy family of demented killers. There you go.

So I liked it. It was cool. Lots of crazy visuals and wacky ideas. Still, that's really all it is. If you're looking for substance, and not just a heapin' helping of weirdness, you're out of luck.

But if you're content to see a funky horror flick that doesn't try too hard, this one fits the bill.
Dianantrius

Dianantrius

Hi there! This is a different kind of horror/horror-comedy film. Actually after 15 minutes I thought that I waste my money for nothing purchasing "Skinned Deep". Still I decided to watch it till the very end - and actually I found it to be... entertaining. I mean entertaining - not stupid. It can by no means be compared with classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" like every second person does - it is definitely a lower class movie. I will not go into details as I hope if you are reading this you are interested in the movie and as a plot is more than very simple it is easy to spoil the impression. So: for real horror fans - it's a must for your collection; for others - it's OK to rent it for that rainy night (be sure you have some beer in the fridge!). P.S. - Compared to "House of Wax" that I also watched recently - it is nearly a masterpiece! Have fun!
Anen

Anen

Back from my annual pilgrimage to Spain for the 14th Annual San Sebastian Film Festival of Horror and Fantasy. Usually it's tough selecting the best film at the festival, but this year my job was made easy. Of the 18 films in the competition, SKINNED DEEP was by far the best. Dare I say is it's the best new film I've seen all year. Effects artist turned Director Gabe Bartalos is one whacked dude! This is David Lynch on acid!

SKINNED DEEP celebrates monsters, motorcycles and mayhem all while making you smile as the blood flies! The audience smiled as well, responding with the LOUDEST movie presence that I've heard in three years, sending plastic plates flying throughout the theater during Bartalos' intro and whenever Warwick Davis, as 'Plates,' was on the screen.

Other standouts at the festival included 'LOVE OBJECT' by Robert Parigi, Greg Pages' 'THE LOCALS,' and the awesome 'WONDERFUL DAYS' by Kim Moon-Saeng. Apocalypse Now! This bleak view of a digitally created future blew my socks off! It's too bad it takes these guys four years to complete their movies.

Christian Noland 'CINEMA BE PROUD'
POFOD

POFOD

Not worth adding anything else. This movie is crap.
Kanal

Kanal

Want to see a film that features a character called Surgeon General that looks like Dr.Satan's cousin, a plate throwing dwarf called Plates played by Warwick Davies, a character called Brain (or Brian) with a huge over-sized brain filled with toy blocks, a disturbed yet lovable' Granny', a geriatric biker gang, a headless bodybuilder with 'Dyno-mite' on his crotch, full frontal male nudity, a child getting sliced in half, music by Captain Sensible, a fight between a dwarf and a bow legged ancient biker and, to top it all a cameo by Forrest J. Ackerman. If that interests you see Skinned Deep. Is it a good film? Not by any stretch of the imagination. Is it enjoyable. Hell Yeah!!!!!!! Recommended.
Dancing Lion

Dancing Lion

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.
Zolorn

Zolorn

with Warwick Davis as Plates.

This is one of those horrid movies that no one buys, that makes money off of stupid renters. I'm a stupid renter. This is about a girl named Tina, who goes to a weird town with her family. They go to some house and eat there( they eat cheese off of a cardboard box) and are all killed, except for Tina. The characters are granny, the crazy mother, Plates, the midget that throws plates, Brain, a guy with a big head and the Surgeon General. This is horrible. It is plot less and has no real point. Most of these F-List films start off bad, but get better as they go along. This movie starts out OK(the first ten minutes), but after that, it gets so horrible, I can't even stand it!!! One typically brainless scene shows a guy's head burst open and blocks come out of his head and spell LOVE.????? WTF is that? I rented this looking for a bad movie, but if you expect any entertainment at all, avoid this at all costs. They have it at Blockbusters.

0/100. R for violence, language, and Brain's penis(yuck!!)
Wanenai

Wanenai

This is what I wrote to the famous Mr. Warwick Davis (All Leprechaun movies, Star Wars , Harry Potter, 10th Kingdom, Willow, Labyrinth and many more)and will give you an idea of what I think of "Skinned deep" : "Hi Mr. Davis, I always been a fan of your acting qualities. Especially the leprechaun movies! I love watching them over and over again. Today I've rented this DVD called "Skinned deep" and I was surprised to see you in this movie as the figure "plate". My personal opinion is that the film could have been much better off with some good acting. It looked more like a very extended commercial for visual effects and how to get your gore right. The only real good acting came from you and was the only reason I didn't switch it off. It's a shame you didn't get much to say in the film, I loved your monologue just before you get killed by this granddad. It was so funny it reminded me of some pretty cool leprechaun statements. Over all the film was a big disappointment, but you made up for it! Really hope to see you more in films and perhaps in a leprechaun seven ? Kind regards, all the best !" So is this a good movie ? Not worth buying anyway, only if your a fan of Mr. Warwick.