- Skin Gang
"Skin Gang", directed by Canadian filmmaker
Bruce LaBruce , follows the various sexual and violent escapades of severalskinhead s. The film raised a great amount ofcontroversy when it premiered 2000, as many viewers were disturbed by its violent and sexual content, and many critics within thegay community criticized it for perpetuating negativestereotypes abouthomosexuals , as well as glorifying violence.As is typical of films directed by LaBruce, Skin Gang contains a great deal of sexually explicit content, which generally causes it to be categorized as adult or pornographic material. A strong theme in the film is
sado-masochism . One infamous scene involves a charactermasturbating and ejaculating onto a copy of "Mein Kampf " byAdolf Hitler . Another scene, in which agang of skin heads break into the apartment of aninterracial couple andrape and torture them, caused walk-outs atfilm festival s.The film was produced and shot in the U.S.,
England andGermany . It was co-produced with Cazzo Film, a German gay porn company that produced a similar video, Sex Skins, in2000 . Skin Gang is available in asoftcore re-edited version entitled Skin Flick.External links
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