What a beautiful movie!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

As a long time fan of Argento with his extremely stylish often ludicrously plotted films he frequently created some weird and brilliant cinematic moments in 'horror' film history. Admittedly, there were many moments where the brilliance didn't shine and even the most ardent fan will begrudgingly admit most of his films haven't aged too well. However, the sheer power of his set pieces and exquisite use of the cinematic medium in them more than compensates.Sadly, Pelts isn't vintage Argento. Not even close. In fact it's dreadful.You could show it to any Argento fan and they wouldn't recognise it as his work. Laboured, perfunctory direction at best and mainly not even that!. Any old hack could do it, and what's worse, probably better.Excellent special effects though and the sole reason for the 3 stars.

so I'll give it a "5" although maybe I should have divvied up kill as not half but 1/5th of the "content" .... component-wise/dimensionally speaking . . .really the story is so idiotic "so many amazing pelts you can have whatever your heart desires!" we are supposed to imagine that one fur coat will set someone up for life and then some, I guess? how is it possible to imagine such a thing?! the acting was flat out whore-endous! not a decent performance or anything close in the whole she-bang... especially Mr. loaf, who was just pathetic. it's not unusual for foreign language directors to do a terrible job directing films in English from the point of view of the acting. it's harder for them to sense what isn't working, big time in this case! but the kills were all quite surprising and disgusting and... the sole interesting aspect of the story as told. and I guess I give this movie some points for not involving a lot of mental cruelty. I get so tired of the teasing that killers/monsters and other bad guys in film these days have such a predisposition towards... the kills were definitely sources of any of what Roland barthes would call "jouissance" that this movie provides!! you will certainly have to laugh and look away or else you are one sickly kitty!

At the time I'm writing this user-comment, I have yet to see quite a lot of episodes in the Masters of Horror's second season, but I don't necessarily have to finish the whole series in order to know already that this installment will become one of my absolute favorites! Dario Argento's second contribution to the series – after the somewhat offbeat "Jennifer" in series one – features a deliriously absurd story, copious amounts of gut wrenching gore effects and a cameo by the almighty B-movie veteran John Saxon! That is more than enough already to qualify as a huge success in my book. It's still not a bona fide Argento effort, because the concept doesn't really allow him to experiment with visual style elements or Italian Giallo themes, but it is nonetheless a shocking exercise in the extremes of the horror genre. The particularly well cast Meat Loaf stars as the sleazy and power-obsessed fur trader Jake Feldman. Via an elderly poacher (John Saxon) and his son, Feldman gets hold of a cargo of exceptionally qualitative raccoon furs that he intends to process into a coat and donate to his unreachable muse; a black lesbian striptease dancer. However, the raccoons were butchered in the garden of an eccentric old witch and their fur homes a horrifying curse. Anyone who gets in contact with these furs goes berserk and develops murderous and suicidal tendencies. The poacher and his son are the first ones to fall victim to this curse, but their terrifyingly gruesome deaths don't stop Feldman from claiming the furs as his own… The running time is too short to emphasize on substantial depth and/or detailed character drawings, so Argento just fully goes for outrageously explicit gore. Someone harshly gets beaten to death with a baseball bat, another character cuts open his own chest with a pair of scissors, a lady sews her own face entirely shut and another poor soul professionally skins himself in front of a mirror. The absolute highlight of repulsiveness – perhaps even in the entire Master of Horror series – involves someone who slowly places his own face in an animal trap before setting it off. Whoa baby, that was awesome! Add a lot of nudity and gratuitous lesbian action to this and you've got yourself one hour of sheer old-fashioned and undemanding horror entertainment. Thank you, Maestro Argento, for once again brightening up my day!

Dario Argento is my all-time favourite director. PHENOMENA, TENEBRE, INFERNO and SUSPIRIA all rank on my top 20 horror films of all-time, and I own all of his films available in Australia. So when I viewed his very disappointing Masters of Horror entry JENIFER, I decided not to expect much from PELTS. Thankfully, my low expectations were more than met with this frantic and exciting Masters of Horror episode, restoring my faith in the series after JENIFER, HAECKEL'S TALE, DANCE OF THE DEAD and the abysmal CHOCOLATE bombed out and ruined the credibility IMPRINT, CIGARETTE BURNS and SICK GIRL had built.PELTS follows a slimy, bitter fur trader (Meat Loaf) who is hopelessly in love with a lesbian stripper (Ellen Ewusie). When a sadistic poacher (John Saxon, one of the main reasons I saw this) sells him some mesmerising raccoon pelts, his obsession turns to them and he decides the only way to win the object of his affection is to make her the ultimate coat. But obsession can turn to insanity...PELTS is moral-heavy, but if you ignore those themes it is a simple supernatural revenge film, with a twist. PELTS is gory, fast paced, creepy, unnerving and occasionally hilarious, and the film has an Argento vibe all over it. The acting is fair, but I do think the masters of Horror episodes are too focused on people obsessing.Overall a solid entry to the series and to the horror genre on a whole. 7/10.