Beneath the Skin

Beneath the Skin

Part of Jill Sands Trilogy

1981•12m•7.7/10

Horror

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.7/10(9)

"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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Production

Ohio Arts Council

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jill Sands

Jill Sands

Jennifer Dunegan

Marian Condit

Mary Jo Toles

Stephen Vogel

Robert Biederman

Lisa Kohn

Judith Allston

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