Skin Gang

This is a very confronting film - not because of the sex, you can see a lot more in any porn film, but because of the disturbing way in which the sex turns you on. These guys are skinheads - violent "queer-bashers", but they love to have sex with each other. And watching them do it - and rape and be raped - with such an exhilarating energy becomes erotic. It freaked me out a little to be turned on by this film - and I think that's the point - human sexuality is very complex and labelling it never works.

The Rough Queen of Carnal Camp offers up a spoof of porn while engaging his fetish for skinheads in this film. Its not as outrageous as Super 8 1/2 or Hustler White and it lacks the queer majesty of No Skin Of My Ass - which is a superior skin(head) flick. This film retains the tacky trademark style but transplants proceedings to the UK. The sex scenes are not quite as inventive or raunchy and edgy as is usually the case but then again this is a playful take on the porn film crossed with some soapie-style kitchen sink parody. Its still got the requisite hot skinhead men to make you pant and some amusing roughplay so its not a total loss but it lacks the raw, spirited, engaging La Bruce touch. Its also pretty short. But for La Bruce fans, its still not to be missed. I hope La Bruce returns to his guerilla style, this new sheen is too generic but it suits this parody.

This is a gratuitiously shocking movie that around one-third of the audience left in disgust but which I watched until the end in the hope of finding some point which I could share with the good people of cyberspace. The best I cand do is suggest that it's trying to say that the most virulently homophbic people are latent homosexuals themselves, which isn't an original idea. In any case, the way this point is made is so shocking that it won't reach a wide audience. It's redeemed by some dark humour, but even this is of a kind that mainstream audiences will be repelled by.

I really do not know what this film is about. This is not porn, as there is not as much sex compared to the normal porn movie. The 'story' scenes are interspersed between the sex scenes, which makes it more like a porn movie. However, it is not a conventional film either, as it has almost no story. It appears to be a film about the life of skinheads, but it has so little substance, no character development and there is no emotion in it at all. The scenes seem fragmented and haphazard. There is no flow from one scene to the next.

I would recommend not to watch this film, as you are unlikely to get anything out of it.

By the way, I find a scene of man & woman sex a turn off in the middle of a gay movie. But that's just me.

This is a fun, playful film, if you're not expecting too much. I really liked all the characters, all acted very well. It sure plays on the gay male skinhead fantasy (much like No skin off my ass) and while there is HARDLY a story, the film is certainly watchable.