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Summary:
The reissue of a Cazzo-classic on DVD! The gang of skinheads
isn't gay, but that doesn't stop them from fucking each other!
Description / Review:
Auteur Bruce LaBruce, whose Hustler White repeatedly flirted
with the conventions of gay pornography, went all the way to create
this, his first hardcore effort. Entitled Skin Gang, it is a riveting,
disturbing look at modern society.
With
his trademark grittiness, freewheeling narrative line, and documentary
approach, LaBruce here records the actions of a marauding group
of skinheads for whom violence is an integral part of their social
- and sexual - interplay. In short, it is a fascinatingly nasty
little film After an opening montage, Skin Gang actually begins
by zeroing in on an ambivalent youth, Manfred (Tom Vincent) in
a solo session during which he shifts from looking at girlie magazines
to Mein Kampf in order to bring himself off.
Meanwhile,
Wolfgang (Ralf Steel) steals some money from a woman on a park
bench, and when he realizes he has been observed by a proper,
bespectacled passerby, Karl (Jens Hammer), he follows him into
a public restroom where they cruise each other and have rough
manual-oral-anal sex. Apparently Hammer's character has his own
darker side, for he (literally) rises to the callous sexplay instigated
by Steel. Cross cut with this scene is another in which LaBruce
at first seems to be satirizing that oldest of porn cliches: the
plumber under the sink (Darren James, an Aryan prototype) and
the client whose pipes need cleaning out (Bastian, a light-skinned
black). Both sequences are hyper-intense, especially during the
parallel anal action as Hammer and Bastian are subjected to extensive
heavy-duty plowing by their skinhead topmen.
Later, as two of the gang members (Steve Master and Eden Miller)
prowl the streets, generally wreaking havoc, they come upon Vincent,
who wants to join the gang. The next explicit action occurs in
a funky apartment where Master, Miller, and Vincent are joined
by Tom International and Steel again to drink beer and watch straight
porno movies. (A poster of Clockwork Orange is prominently displayed
on the wall of the place.) Soon Master and Miller retreat to the
bedroom to attack each other in a rough-and-tumble, highly competitive
flip-flop that is the sexual zenith of the film, while Steel and
International go at it in the living room as Vincent watches,
jacks off, and eventually joins in.
The
film next returns to Hammer and Bastian, who turn out to be lovers
happily ensconced in an upper middle-class apartment where they
make gentle, affirmative love. But the idyll does not last long,
for soon the skinheads have broken into their happy home. With
a knife to his throat, Hammer is forced to fuck Bastian, whom
the intruders assume is his "houseboy." Racial epithets fly, and
soon a chant begins to build: "I've never fucked a monkey before."
The scene escalates into a gang rape, a murder, and Hammer seeking
revenge on the leader of the pack (Master) by forcing him to have
sex at gunpoint. The sequence is electrifying. And the final moments
of the film are as bleak and ambiguous as the rest of it. The
non-sexual sequences are primarily shot in black and white, hand-held-camera
style, while the sex scenes are mostly shot in color with a slick,
professional awareness of the specific demands of explicit filmmaking.
The results feel like the work of two different directors, and
though they are jarring, they are not off-putting. Skin Gang,
then, is like a bloody automobile accident. The viewer winces
at the sight, but he cannot take his eyes away from it.
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Additional
Information
Categories:
UK R18 / XXX Gay Adult
Running
Time: 90 mins, Year 2007
Price:
From around £29*
Starring:
Jens Hammer, Ralf Steel, Tim Vincent, Steve Masters, Eden Miller,
Tom International, Niki Richardson, Darren James, Bastian, Others
Director: Bruce
La Bruce
Studio:
Cazzo Film
Buy
DVDs Online at: SimplyGayDVD
& TLA
Video
Video
on Demand: Cazzo
Film, See also: www.GayDVDs.tv
Country:
Germany, Language: Original German Sound
Additional
info: No Regional Coding
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