Club Skin
Pitch
Hostel meets Crash in this sexy horror film that offers a glimpse in to the London fetish scene and takes torture horror to a terrifying new level.
Club Skin is Soho’s exclusive new fetish club with a difference, beneath its sexy façade lies a horrifying truth.
Synopsis
Ian, Dave, Daphne and Peaches are the friends you see walking down the street and watch on with envy... They are gorgeous. Even the men are pretty. They have no suspicions when they are given VIP tickets to Club Skin, figuring it was only a matter of time before they claimed their place with London’s social elite.
Club Skin is exactly as they expected, the attractiveness of the mixed clientele, where suited city workers mingle with cat-suited women, is exciting and sexy. The club is so intoxicating the four young friends do not notice when the entrance is locked behind them.
In the club’s interior, the friends are shocked, intrigued and aroused. Men are being pulled on leads, some wearing nothing but gimp masks. The women are parading confidently, assured by the tight leather and rubber that has accentuated their bodies. Of the four friends, Peaches, 28, blond and voluptuous, and Daphne, 24, and Latino, have also dressed to impress, offering little to the imagination. Unusually though, it is the club’s female clientele that are staring at them like pieces of meat. What Peaches and Daphne do not understand is its not a look of envy but that of desire…the desire to own part of them…for in Club Skin everything and everybody is available to the highest bidder.
Slowly the full horror that is Club Skin is revealed with the friends being caught and harvested one buy one for their perfection. Their night out turns in to a night of survival in which escape is the only goal.
More than a horror-thriller, Club Skin is a satirical critique of our society - a journey into the 21st Century heart of darkness where the need for perfection leads to an underground economy of nip-tuck. Club Skin suggests that in our modern society our closest friends could be our worst enemies where money can buy any body we desire.
About
The project was devised by veteran special effects guru Tristan Versluis (Sweeny Todd, The Chronicles of Narnia, Hot Fuzz) as a debut feature to create a truly shocking horror film that takes the genre created by the Hostel and Saw franchises to a sexy new level.
“Club Skin offers a world darker and more sexy than other horror films on the market today and being given the chance to flesh this world out and explore its many levels of desire and greed is most exciting. This is an opportunity to look at London’s underground fetish scene, which hasn't been truly dealt with before on film, and give it a ultimately terrifying edge to leave audiences fearing the skin they are in.”
Tristan Versluis (VFX credits include: Sweeny Todd, Chronicles of Narnia, Hot Fuzz)
Status: Packaging, script available
Writer: Tristan Versluis
Director: Tristan Versluis
Genre: Fetish Horror
