


Early film comedies usually age about as gracefully as milk in July, yet Skinning Skinners arrives on the modern screen like a jeroboam of chilled champagne laced with strychnine: effervescent, lethal, and absolutely exhilarating. Shot in the autumn of 1914 while Europe’s trenches were being dug, this anarchic one-reel...

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"Early film comedies usually age about as gracefully as milk in July, yet Skinning Skinners arrives on the modern screen like a jeroboam of chilled champagne laced with strychnine: effervescent, lethal, and absolutely exhilarating. Shot in the autumn of 1914 while Europe’s trenches were being dug, this anarchic one-reeler feels eerily prophetic—an upper-class weekend orgy that cannibalizes itself before our eyes, leaving nothing behind but monocles cracked underfoot and the faint whiff of gunpowd..."
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