It's a slow week for marquee nudes on DVD and Blu-ray, with the non-nude Bridesmaids, starring Kristin Wiig and Rose Byrne, leading the pack. Genre fans will have a much slappier week, however, as a barrage of scary skin flicks including sorority slasher The Initiation(1984), gastropod gorefest Slugs (1988), and Ozploitation opus Dead-End Drive In (1986) hit DVD.
Also new on DVD and Blu-ray, sink your teeth into the lady bloodsuckers of Vamp (1986) and We Are the Night (2011):
Blame budgetary cutbacks or credit the ingenuity of the insane, but a homicidal maniac has escaped from a mismanaged asylum and is determined to provide a giggling clique of sorority sisters with The Initiation (1984) of a lifetime. Trapped in a closed department store, a group of perky pledges has to spend the night in the company of a slain security guard, a half dozen older girls attempting to scare the bejesus out of them, a few cute but dumb boys from campus, and a leading lady whose childhood trauma is one long blackout about to be illuminated. Bewitching brunette Hunter Tylo lives up to her soap-star image, soaping up her fully frontal, fully friggable form. So clean, but you’ll feel entirely dirty. The survivors will certainly have plenty to talk about at their ten-year reunion!
Did everyone laugh when you tried to expose the slugs’ sinister plot to take over the earth? Then you’ll really identify with Slugs: The Movie (1988). In this cheesy horror flick, people are dropping like flies, and health worker Mike Brady (Michael Garfield) thinks that invertebrates are the key to this gruesome murder spree. No, no, not the flies- the slugs. Mutant slugs who crave human meat, more specifically. Our soft, slick, slimy slug pals won’t be the only ones hungry for flesh when you see Kari Rose strip down for a scene in bed with her guy. When Kari falls off the bed and into a pile of the man-eating mollusks, you’ll be feeling pretty sticky yourself!
Vamp (1986) is a somewhat grotesque horror-comedy focusing on two average guys, one of whom joins the undead with unpleasant cosmetic consequences, while the other fights to escape the clutches of the creatures. The modern day vampires run a strip joint in a really seedy neighborhood in L.A., and this seems like the ideal minority business if the minority is day-impaired Americans. Grace Jones performs most of the film in a strange bikini which doesn't hide much, but she is never actually naked. Her nipples can clearly be seen underneath her wire bikini. Bodybuilder Lisa Lyon appears in tassels and thong, and is all but naked. Two unnamed extras, playing strippers, are topless in the background.
Do you love vampire lesbians? If your answer is “who doesn’t?”, you’ll want to sink your teeth into the German import We Are the Night (2010). In this dark thriller, Lousie (Nina Hoss), Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich), and Nora (Anna Fischer) are lady vamps who have killed off all the male vampires in the world. From their decadent digs in a Berlin nightclub, this terrifying, titillating trio prowls the nightlife in search of blood. Star Karoline Herfurth flashes her drawers jumping from a ferry and dons a sexy bra and panty set for her transformation, and Nina turns up the heat when she makes out with Karoline before tasting her sweet, sweet blood. Later, Karoline and her immortal galpals will get your blood pumping when they lounge poolside in teeny bikinis, but We Are the Night ultimately puts a stake through Mr. Skin’s nude hopes.CU Next Tuesday, Skin fans, for all the newest and nudest releases on DVD and Blu-ray, right here at the Mr. Skin blog!
