''Skinner'' is a 1993
independent
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splatter /
slasher
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film directed by
Ivan Nagy and starring
Ted Raimi
Theodore "Ted" Raimi (born December 14, 1965) is an American character actor, director, comedian, and writer. He is known for his roles in the works of his brother Sam Raimi, including a fake Shemp in ''The Evil Dead'', possessed Henrietta in ...
,
Traci Lords
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. Lords starred in adult fi ...
,
Ricki Lake
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film ''Hairspray'', for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Be ...
and
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on ''The West Wing'', a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with ''The West Wing'', directing ...
.
Synopsis
Dennis Skinner is a likeable, decent-looking lad who, driven by a disturbing childhood,
moonlights as a
skid row
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slasher-style serial killer preying on
sex worker
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According to one view, sex work is d ...
s, in-between those co-workers of his who despise him as he does in return. He "
punish
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es" those he finds offensive, by
flaying
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Scope
A dead animal may be flayed when pre ...
his victims alive. On his trail is Heidi (
Traci Lords
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. Lords starred in adult fi ...
), a
junkie prostitute
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who survived one of his brutal attacks and now desires revenge.
Cast
*
Ted Raimi
Theodore "Ted" Raimi (born December 14, 1965) is an American character actor, director, comedian, and writer. He is known for his roles in the works of his brother Sam Raimi, including a fake Shemp in ''The Evil Dead'', possessed Henrietta in ...
as Dennis Skinner
*
Traci Lords
Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma; May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. Lords starred in adult fi ...
as Heidi
*
Ricki Lake
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film ''Hairspray'', for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Be ...
as Kerry Tate
*
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on ''The West Wing'', a role for which he received an Emmy Award. Schiff made his directorial debut with ''The West Wing'', directing ...
as Eddie
*
David Warshofsky
David Warshofsky (born David A. Warner; February 23, 1961) is an American film, television and stage actor.
Life and career
Warshofsky was born David A. WarnerAccording to the State of California. ''California Birth Index, 1905-1995''. Center fo ...
as Geoff Tate
* Blaire Baron as Gloria
* Christina Englehardt as Rachel
* Time Winters as Night Watchman
* Roberta Eaton as Sandy
* De Wayne Williams as Earl
* Frederika Kesten as Suzanne
* Sara Lee Froton as Young Woman
References
External links
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American independent films
American slasher films
1993 horror films
Films directed by Ivan Nagy
1993 films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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