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I was looking forward to seeing Skin Gang, the porno offshoot of Bruce LaBruce's new feature Skin Flick. I had seen several of his previous movies and thought the sex scenes in Hustler White in particular were very well done. Skin Gang was also being produced by the German Studio Cazzo -- which produced the excellent sexy skinhead flick Authentic Adventures (released in the U.S. by All Worlds Video). Unfortunately, trying to make a Bruce LaBruce movie and a skinhead sex flick in one has proven less than successful.
Pornos are, in essence, wank movies. Skin Gang, on the other hand, is essentially a new spike of LaBruce irony with extended graphic sex scenes thrown in. The grist for LaBruce's explorations into the nature and paradox of homosex today are not terribly sexy. The guys themselves are pretty hot, and the dicks are suitably porn-movie-big. There are the requisite number of sex scenes and many of the usual conventions in porn movies, including plenty of cum shots and the unfortunate obsession of all-over body shaving. Not everything is in order, however. Sure, the double-beercan-dicked young freshcut jacks off in the first Then, just when the movie should be building you to a climax, LaBruce pulls a few more stunts. The worst of these is probably the skin gang's Clockwork Orange-esque rape of a dark-skinned man, one half of a quintessentially queer couple, to the accompaniment of chants of "fuck the monkey." I do have to say that the best sex scene is the heterosexual one, which is simulated between Wolfgang and Cameltoe. The little dialog was mediocre at best, except for the lines Cameltoe acts out. She steals the movie with lines like, "Put that salami down before I stuff it up your ass. But then again you'd probably like that!" There is something to be said for LaBruce's explorations of deeper issues such as the relationship between violence and sex and gay men eroticizing authority and oppressor figures. However, examination of those aspirations would really be better in a review of this film's art house partner, Skin Flick. In the final analysis, the "money shot" in a porno is the cum scene to which everything builds -- the climax on screen and in the palm of your hand. The money shot in a droll independent film, if there is one, is the one that makes your audience gasp or wince -- much like the stump fucking scene in Hustler White. As porn, however, such a scene will appeal only to amputee fetishists. For self-loathing Nazi toy-porn fetishists the line for skin gang forms to the (far) right. * Shane Tanner is Nightcharm's resident skinhead and shares his cosmologies semi-regularly in his column Drub. * Inner Circle members click here for hardcore vid caps featured in the Circle's V.I.P. Lounge. Not an Inner Circle member? "Clutch the pearls!" Click here.
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scene, but he does so over Hitler's Mein Kampf. LaBruce may be laughing at your conflict, but you may start wondering if your money was well spent. The next sex scenes seem to go through the motions with a remarkable lack of heat between any of the actors. In fact, there are even some basic production flaws, such as washed-out overexposed shots, poor editing, and even smudgy mirrors that reveal how some of those trick porno angles are achieved.
