Skin Flick
2025 · 8m · France
Directed by Louise Bailly, Daniela Del Castello, Alice Levy, Bruno De Mendonça, Elifsu Meriç, Joey Quoc Tran
Genres: animation, comedy, horror, romance
Tones: humorous, provocative, tense
An X-actress named Gasoline stars in the Devil's cannibalistic snuff movies in exchange for a glamorous skin that hides her demoness form. When she's ordered to lure a runaway bride to the studio as prey, she develops feelings for her target and rebels against the Devil's scenario.
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The scouts
Demon X-actress in a borrowed bombshell skin falling for her runaway-bride prey — Gobelins flexing into queer grindhouse with 934K views, and the genre-mash actually has stakes. This is the Gobelins entry that earns it.
Gobelins again, this time in full exploitation-camp register with a queer demoness-and-runaway-bride love story — at 934K views, the film has already found its audience for good reason. The aesthetic confidence to fuse body horror with romance without flinching is rarer than it sounds.
Eight minutes three seconds of Gobelins-level 2D fusing retro gore, camp melodrama, and queer love story — 934K views in six months is the algorithm catching up to the craft. Six co-directors keeping a tonal trifecta this coherent is the school flexing.
Reviews
A neon fever dream: a high-octane 2D spectacle dripping with retro gore, queer desire, and enough camp energy to power your whole night.
The force that moves the narrative is rooted in the ultimate kind of love: self-acceptance. Skin Flick toys with vintage XXX tropes, horror clichés, and melodramatic beats, twisting them into a story about desire and self-acceptance.