Bezenby If you're in the market for late eighties, cheap gory fun then you might want to check out this one, starring Scott Speigel of "associated with Sam Raimi" fame (although you'd be better checking out his film Intruder first to be honest). Three crazed killers, Crawldaddy, Phink, and the other one, roam Ohio, killing hitchhikers and turning their skin into leather. After killing some Vegas hot shot, their van breaks down and they end up at the house of car mechanic Miles and his chatterbox wife, while next door ex-cop Paul is drinking himself daft and being harassed by his ex-wife and her attorney. Things aren't going to turn out well for everyone, as after killing a delivery boy and a Jehovah's Witness, the killer set their sights on Miles and the rest, not knowing that Paul has some severe hardware to hand. Basically a very, very cheap excuse to show loads of gore effects, Skinned Alive's flaw comes from it's almost complete lack of storyline. There's no real background to our killers, and only the role of Paul is given any kind of background. However, I'm not all about backstory due to various head injuries over the years, so a 74 minute long film full of gore was enough for me. I like ultra-low budget films and this one was good enough (it has a nice healthy dose of humour that helps greatly). Skinned Alive is by no means a great film, but it passes the time nicely. Spiegel's directed Intruder did it much better, but this would make a good companion to that film. Also starring that J.R Bookwater guy whom I've heard lots about but only own one film by (The so-so Demon Fire).

LukeNickels88 This is a film about a family who travels the country killing people and they make leather out of their skin. After their vehicle stalls they have to stay in a small town until it gets repaired where they continue to kill.Most of the reviews I have read for this particular film have been mostly negative but I can honestly say that I like this film, it has good special effects for a cheap straight to video horror film. It is pretty funny as well. The locations in this film are amazing.Major problems with this movie is that the dubbing is off and the editing is pretty terrible. The two main actresses are annoying but Scott Spiegels character is my favorite, who almost has an incest scene with his sister which is weird. Plus the characters I wanted to die didn't :( It may have horrible things wrong with it, but it is the type of movie that I like although others will see a problem with that but who cares..am I right?

cjhancocks I still can't tell whether this film is serious. It's called a horror on here but it must be a black comedy. It absolutely hilarious! The effects are awful and so is the acting and the story line but put together it all makes one funny film...if you don't have a good sense of humor then probably give it a miss but if you do and you like gory films this is fantastic! It's similar to the Evil Dead series if you like them. The murders are gory and bloody and very unrealistic and over the top with victims surviving through shootings and stabbings and wounds healing between shots and blood stained clothes suddenly becoming clean. I found this film hysterically tacky and awful.

Kristine Everyone is saying, "This was so funny!". What was funny? That it was stupid? It's a very low-budgetted film that I wouldn't recommend for fans.******************SPOILER*******************Now supposidly, the former cop in the film is trying to make up for shooting a pedestrian or something. So, what does he do? He massacres the killers? He does realize that he could go to jail for that? Gah!2/10