Skin of Man
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Jimmy Joe Roche
Genres: experimental, horror
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Three friends drop acid on a forest road trip and one of them slips into a wordless nightmare of demonic hallucination. Black-and-white, dialogue-free, scored by Dan Deacon — produced by Matt Porterfield.
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The scouts
Matt Porterfield producing a wordless Dan Deacon acid horror — this shouldn't work but it absolutely does. Pure texture, zero handholding.
Jimmy Joe Roche traffics in psychedelic horror textures that recall early Panos Cosmatos or the Animal Charm crowd; acid-trip-as-aesthetic is well-trodden but the craft here sounds genuine.
Black-and-white dialogue-free acid horror scored by Dan Deacon and produced by Matt Porterfield — that's a stacked craft lineup making the case for atmosphere as plot.
Reviews
A psychedelic film about lost innocence and demonic forces that creates vivid textures with avant-garde technique.