Shedding the Skin

Shedding the Skin (2005)

*** (out of 4)

This thirty-three minute documentary takes a look at the Lucio Fulci giallo A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN. We get interviews with Florinda Bolkan, Franco Di Girolamo, Mike Kennedy, Carlo Rambaldi and Jean Sorel as they discuss what it was like making the picture. If you're looking for a well-informed documentary that is going to give you every aspects of the film's making then you might be disappointed with this. With that said, this does offer up some nice interviews with four of the cast members as well as two of the men who worked on the special effects so we do get to hear from nice stories. There stuff dealing with the special effects is certainly the highlight and especially the controversial nature of the dogs that were rumored to have been used in the film. If you're a fan of the Fulci film then you'll certainly want to check this out.

This documentary gives a brief and totally bland lightweight and uninformative history of Giallo films. It then talks about the film "Lizard in a Woman's Skin" of which this featurette can be found as an extra on the second disc of Shriek Show's 2-DVD set of that movie (which itself is a mixed bag). The interview with Florida Bolkan is pretty good. She talks about her experiences of working on the film and her first impressions of Fulci himself. This documentary also has interviews with various other members of the surviving cast and crew. It's good for what it is, but perhaps I was just expecting a little bit more.

My Grade: C