Skin Gang, directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...

, follows the various sexual and violent escapades of several skinhead

Skinhead

A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian rude boys and British mods,...

s. The film raised a great amount of controversy

Controversy

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 when it premiered in 1999, as many viewers were disturbed by its violent and sexual content, and many critics within the gay community

Gay community

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 criticized it for perpetuating negative stereotypes about homosexuals and for glorifying violence.

As is typical of films directed by LaBruce, Skin Gang contains a great deal of sexually explicit content, which generally causes it to be categorized as adult or pornographic

Pornography

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 material. A strong theme in the film is sado-masochism. One infamous scene involves a character masturbating and ejaculating onto a copy of Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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by Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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. Another scene, in which a gang

Gang

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 of skin heads break into the apartment of an interracial

Miscegenation

Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation....

 couple and rape

Rape

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 and torture them, caused walk-outs at film festival

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s.

The film was produced and shot in the U.S., England

England

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 and Germany

Germany

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. It was co-produced with Cazzo Film

Cazzo Film

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, a German gay porn company that produced a similar video, Sex Skins, in 2000. Skin Gang is available in a softcore

Softcore

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re-edited version entitled Skin Flick.