Canadian Bruce LaBruce’s debut feature film, explicitly erotic No Skin Off My Ass, played at film festivals around the world and quickly became a cult film; Kurt Cobain declared it his favorite film.
Grade: B (*** out of *****)
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LaBruce plays a punk hairdresser, known only as “The Hairdresser,” who becomes obsessed with a mute neo-Nazi skinhead (Klaus von Brücker).
Jonesy (G. B. Jones), a film director and the skinhead’s sister, attempts to bring her brother and the hairdresser together.
The cast also includes Fifth Column band members Caroline Azar and Beverly Breckenridge.
The film’s soundtrack includes songs by several punk bands such as Frightwig and Beefeater.
LaBruce’s debut feature deals with many of the themes in LaBruce’s later movies.
Explicit sex scenes between LaBruce’s character and von Brucker’s are interwoven with a radical political message.
Cast
Bruce LaBruce as “The Hairdresser”
G. B. Jones as “Jonesy”
Klaus von Brücker as “The Skinhead”
Caroline Azar
Beverly Breckenridge
Laurel Pervis
Kate Ashley
Jena von Brücker
Directed, written by Bruce LaBruce
Distributed by Strand Releasing
Release date: 1991
Running time: 73 minutes