As a contribution to the world of film this is little more than an over the top exploitation of after school special styled themes, which is what actually makes this film so entertaining. It's lewd, raunchy, violent, ridiculous and completely out of control, with a neo nazi skinhead gang beating on a gay teen, raping random women, and generally terrorizing Hollywood Boulevard in an effort to impress upon the world the true white man's definition of freedom; a survival of the fittest type dogma set to the soundtrack of really bad eighties sounding Top Gun rock music. The father is a pitiful drunk at the start of the film, in exile in Mexico(there is hilarious shaky drunk hands and alcoholic bad behavior by Wings Hauser) for some murder he'd committed as a cop a year earlier, his guilt over the incident haunting him. Eventually a revenge plot is hatched as the entire family experiences violence on all fronts by the skinhead gang, and then the hunt is on. This one is so worth your time if you are into good, solid trashed out B movie street gang blowouts. The family even recruits the crips and bloods for a full scale riot meltdown against the skins.
Review of Skins
