Beneath the Skin
Jan 27 1981
•0h 12m
•Horror
"Relating a tale told by a girl on a swing, Beneath the Skin explores the contrast between the impersonal horror of a news story heard on television and the involvement of the storyteller in a nightmare, which gradually becomes more familiar and commonplace as the tale unfolds. The straightforward approach of the teller is humorously or frighteningly contrasted by a bombardment of visual images which mock or intensify the macabre flavor of the work."
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Jill Sands
Jennifer Dunegan
Marian Condit
Mary Jo Toles
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