Early effort from Tempe Entertainment instantly reminds one of the 1980 flick Mother's Day with a twisted family operating a leather tanning service from their van by using real human skin ending-up stranded in a backwoods town and deciding to let their murderous urges take over as people are cut-up and "skinned alive".

While there's certainly nothing like a campy redneck horror filled with comedic carnage and sporting a demented cast of killers (Evil Dead II co-writer Scott Spiegel amuses as 'Phink') this one only manages to be a competently made time that's just not as morbidly funny and entertaining as we'd of liked.

It's too bad because there's some decent wackiness on hand and the gore effects are okay (they're better than most movies in this budget range, even if they're so-so at times) but it suffers from a meandering pace and the fact the plot is really thin.

Picks-up steam in the splatter-filled finale but is only a bearable time that's got some fast-forwardable moments wedged between moments that are sometimes fun.

That's cult favourite director (and Tempe head honcho) J.R. Bookwalter getting the treatment mentioned in the film's title.

Get it from Tempe Video.

Directed By: Jon Killough.
Written By: Jon Killough.

Starring: Mary Jackson, Scott Spiegel, Susan Rothacker, Floyd Ewing, Jr.

Picture Ratio: Full Frame.

Picture Quality: Tempe apologies many times for the quality of the picture due to damaged prints but really if you forgive the fact there's a lot of film grain it's not that bad looking.

Extras: Tempe's first release of one of their "classic" early titles and loaded to the tees just like you'd expect from the company. In fact this is probably their best release yet and this disc is a must if you're a fan of the film. There's the amusing and insightful featurette "Cut To The Bone" on the making-of, a behind-the-scenes featurette, camera & wardrobe tests that let you see the original cast, a little blurb about the remastering, two still galleries: artwork & production stills, trailers, an isolated music track, an episode of the public TV show "Roommates" a lot of people behind this were involved in and finally a fairly entertaining commentary track by Bookwalter and make-up man David Lange. Phew!