10 Hidden Gem Slasher Horror Movies

10. Skinner

Admittedly, Skinner is somewhat of a mixed bag of a movie, but it totally deserves a mention on this list as a) most people have never heard of it, and b) Ted Raimi is absolutely fantastic as the film's headline act.

Raimi is famed for being a great character actor and for small roles in the likes of brother Sam's Spider-Man trilogy, the Evil Dead franchise, Xena: Warrior Princess and seaQuest DSV, but it's pretty rare to see Ted get to take centre-stage in a lead role.

In Skinner - which has nothing to do with Armin Tamzarian (hey, Simpsons fans!) - Raimi gets to do his best Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter as uber-creep Dennis Skinner. Viewed by the outside world as your standard everyman character, Dennis spends his spare time scouring the streets looking for people to skin.

Having moved to a small town and become a lodger at the house of Ricki Lake's Kerry, ol' Den finds his past coming back to haunt him as one of his previous victims (Traci Lords) hunts him down. Still, that doesn't stop Skinner from slicing 'n' dicing up other poor fools, all while he develops a major crush on Lake's Kerry.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 28th Oct 2021

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