Review

Skin Gang is controversial director Bruce LaBruce's quite brutal, amazingly hot, eyebrow-raising and definitely not-for-all-tastes hardcore skinhead "art" film. A slightly reworked and edited version was shown worldwide in gay film festivals, under the title Skin Flick.

Shot on location in New York, London and Berlin the story revolves around a rough 'n tumble street gang terrorizing the city streets, most notably an interracial milk-'n-cookies male couple in their home. The scene where the skinheads break into the couple's house, torture Bastian Eade (aka Ben Jakks) all the while chanting "monkey" had screening audiences furious and caused walkouts galore.

The tearoom rape that occurs when one of the gang pounces upon the white partner is sleazy and hot, too. Don't miss the opening sequence where young (and surprisingly adorable) skinhead Tim Vinzent jerks off and unleashes his load on the copy of Mein Kampf (Hitler's autobiography) that he's reading. I told you - LaBruce really goes there.

 -- Keeneye Reeves

Additional notes about the director and his films: LaBruce is best known in the U.S. for Hustler White, his sexy and sleazy docudrama on Sunset Strip male hustlers. Starring Madonna's hunky ex-boy piece Tony Ward and several real-life porn stars, it features one of the crudest on-camera fucks in non-porn history - an amputee plunges his stump of a leg into the gaping (and willing) asshole of his partner. His other films include No Skin off My Ass in which the director falls for a baby-faced skinhead, the mockumentary Super 8½: Director's Cut and L.A. Zombie Hardcore. While his works are definitely not for everyone, adventurous filmgoers will find themselves in for a (nasty and delicious) treat.

 -- Erik Schut