Nude Scenes from
Hostel (2005)

As Saw VI hits theaters this weekend, let’s look back at the fright franchise's most screamingly sexy ladies.

In 2004, the original Saw heralded a new approach to terror that ushered in its own extreme movie genre, dubbed by those who disapprove to be “torture porn.”

Just as Saw indirectly begat Wolf Creek (2005), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), and Eli Roth’s Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007), it also spawned sequels that have become an annual cinematic happening every Halloween weekend.

The follow-up roster thus far is Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008) and, now, Saw VI (2009).

For all its spectacular violence, the Saw cycle has been surprisingly skingy, but it does not skimp on stocking the screen with sexbombs who have appeared nude elsewhere.

One caveat: ferociously sexy villainess Shawnee Smith, who’s appeared in every Saw movie so far, has still not done a nude scene. Why does she torture us so?

Until Shawnee strips, then, allow Mr. Skin to point you in the direction of the Saw sirens’ naked appearances.

1. JULIE BENZ
See Her in Saw(s): V

The Buzz: Fresh-faced, hard-bodied blonde Julie Benz is most familiar as Rita, the clueless mom married to a serial killer on Dexter. Julie’s breakout role came in Jawbreaker (1999), and she’s worked steadily (and aged beautifully) since then, notably returning to the big screen in Rambo (2008). In Saw V, Julie is forced to save herself by fatally neck stabbing a fellow victim of evil mastermind Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). Those things happen.

Jig Off: Darkdrive (1996)
(1:08) Julie brings rapid acceleration to this sci-fi tale of an auto-intensive future, flashing her headlights and even some back bumper as she rides a guy to glory in the sack.

Among its many repulsive and/or revolutionary revelations, the classic splatter blow-out Pieces (1982) proved (as its ads touted) that “you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre.”

Now the heroic exploitation-movie archeologists at Grindhouse Releasing bring that very same chainsaw massacre right to you via a new, gloriously realized two-disc special edition Pieces DVD.

Meanwhile, at a midnight showing quite possibly near you (with more on the way), Repo! The Genetic Opera (2007) is packing screwed-up teenage asses into theater seats like no cult sensation in recent memory (or mammaries).

Repo’s got blood, it’s got guts, it's got body-fluid thrill freaks looking for a kick, and it’s got a Gothily tarted-up Paris Hilton.

McBeardo reports on the considerable sex appeal of all of the above after the jump. Just click on Paris Hilton's nipple.

It's Halloween! The one time a year when gross, scary and slutty are perfectly acceptable attire...

Have you ever been out to a bar on Halloween? Every chick is dressed up as either something totally outrageous like a toaster oven, or a skanky version of a police officer, doctor, French maid, or naughty little devil (guilty as charged on more than one of those). But it's the one day a year when it's OK to play dress up and let the imagination run wild...

A Skintroduction to Mr Skin's Man in the Feels

Editor's Note: McBeardo is Mr Skin’s resident sexpert on weird, cult, fringe, midnight, underground and/or any other extreme form of skinema.

He reports from the frontlines and backrooms of most skintimidating screening halls on the planet – not the least of which is the place where he keeps his couch.

The opinions of McBeardo are not necessarily those of Mr Skin, MrSkin.com, or any related affiliates. The ideas as to what constitutes a “wild time” are definitely not Mr Skin’s, period.

Please click McBeardo's mitt on the magnifincent bosom on Nekromistress to go to the next page and read his first column.

Two years before The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and three whole decades before the “torture porn” outrages of the Saw and Hostel franchises, director Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left set a new standard for fright-flick brutality by merging merciless violence with horrific sexuality.

Last House on the Left changed movies forever -- all movies, not just exploitation films -- and it made its first indelible marks on this date in 1972

Press play for sample of what makes Last House remain so shocking, then leap forward to learn more about this milestone of mayhem.

It is a testament to Japanese director Takashi Miike’s influence around the world that American horror maven Eli Roth gave him a speaking cameo in Hostel (wearing his trademark sunglasses), despite the fact that he speaks no English.

A legend in the world of extreme cinema and a professed fan of Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, Takashi is known for filling his movies with graphic violence, perverse sex, and a nostalgia for childhood.

Some of Takashi’s best-known films are the ultra-violent Ichi The Killer, Audition, and Visitor Q.

But Mr. Skin’s favorite is his 1996 crime thriller Fudoh: The New Generation, with its kinky lesbian scene between a nude Miho Nomoto and equally undressed Marie Jinno.

In gratitude, Mr. Skin bows and says, “Happy Birthday, Takashi-san.”