Skinned Alive
Skinned Alive
| 01 February 1990 (USA)
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Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning people alive before killing them. When their van breaks down, they are put up by a friendly couple.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Solemplex

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Hattie

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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Phillipa

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Michael_Elliott

Skinned Alive (1990) * 1/2 (out of 4) Straight-to-VHS title about Crawldaddy, a crippled mother who along with her son and daughter travel around the country in their van selling leather. What people don't know is that the trio are actually psychopaths who are killing people and skinning them. Apparently the budget of this thing was just a little over $18,000 and it certainly shows it. I'll admit right up front that I didn't enjoy this movie but at the same time I can't help but tip my hat to director Killough who was pretty much just a horror fan who decided to make his own movie. I'm sure that's something a lot of people would like to do but he actually did do it so my hat's off to him. As for the film itself, it's yet another take off on THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE as we get the wacko family killing, skinning and just being plain weird. The film doesn't do too much story wise as things are pretty uneven as we stay focused on the nutty family for a while but we also have a hero in a former cop who is now an alcoholic after his wife leaves him. I think some of the stuff with the drunk cop just seemed to be thrown in to pad out the running time. It was only 73-minutes without the credits so I guess we'd be looking at something less than an hour but that might not have been such a bad thing. The special effects were done with very little money but they were good enough for this type of thing. It's obvious that the skinning isn't real but it contains plenty of red stuff so fans of gore will have plenty to look at. As expected, the performances are rather weak but Scott Spiegel is somewhat fun in his role. Films like SKINNED ALIVE use to be released each week and it was always fun checking out the latest at your local video store. I do miss those days and this here is a prime example of the type of film you'd be renting in those days.

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cheesyfilmfactory

That this movie has any fans at all is a fact that amazes me. That this movie has an IMDb rating of above one amazes me even further. Some movies are so bad, they are actually good, you can laugh at them and be taken along for the ride whilst not taking them seriously at all. This movie is not one of them. I would rather stick pins in my eyes than be forced to watch this awful movie again. For the opening scene, the cheapness of this film smacks you in the face with awful camera work and even worse characters. They didn't make me laugh, they didn't scare me, i was just amazed that a film like this ever got accepted for distribution. I did manage to make it to the end, but it was truly the most painful experience ever. Please don't get sucked in, yes the cover makes it look a little intriguing, and yes some of the other IMDb users seem to like it, though I'm sure they are lying to make others suffer like the people who have already seen it have done. It is a terrible movie with no redeeming qualities AT ALL. The deaths, characters, camera work, script, etc are the most unbelievably bad ever witnessed. Do not waste the time.

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nickmulrenan

GOING MY WAY BABY!!!!This is the best film of 1989. I love this movie. I watch it every morning before leaving for work. The special effects are a decade before their time. This ends nowhere. Interesting original script. Guns, sex, old granny bitch mental woman in a wheelchair and some brilliant one-liners. What an age we live in producing quality life-altering experiences such as this. Best entertainment solution one can provide in 1 hour.

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TC Smoot

I rented 'Skinned Alive' under the impression that the movie was made fairly recently. Well, the joke was on me as 'Skinned Alive' is a cheap crap independent movie made in 1989. Apparently, fans were just begging for this movie to be re-mastered and re-released on a digital format, so the director complied. Well, for everyone's sake, he should have just burned the master instead. The collective cast is perhaps the ugliest, most unappealing troupe ever assembled reciting possibly the stupidest lines committed to paper. I love bad B horror movies as much as the next guy. This crap should have been left buried though. There's DVD extras, but I'm not sure why the hell anyone would want "extras" on a movie that appears to be created with the talent of a bowling team who got bored during the off-season. I'm not going to bother to give a plot synopsis, since it would be a waste of time. You could give a monkey a pencil and paper, sit him down in a room for an hour, and he could come up with a better script than this. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Filmed on location in scenic Ohio.

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