SKINHEADS is a fun little independent action thriller in which some innocent youths are pursued by a crazed gang of Neo-Nazis with murder in mind. It has a rural setting and is very similar in look and feel to the equally low rent and cheesy '80s slasher, MEMORIAL VALLEY MASSACRE. The heroes are a nondescript bunch here and don't have much presence, but the Nazi types are hilarious goons, slow-witted in the extreme.SKINHEADS offers plenty of cheap action in the form of fist fights, shoot-outs, and endless chase sequences. It's one of those films where the good guys manage to escape by the skin of their teeth time and again. The violence is too cheesy to take seriously, but I enjoyed this regardless; it's goofy and fun. An ageing Barbara Bain plays one of the victims, while the great Chuck Connors has a great late-stage role as a hermit type who brings his shotgun out to play against the Nazi scum.

A small group of skinheads led by Damon (Brophy) are apparently tired of harassing elderly store owners, so they take a skinhead vacation to the rural mountains. When further harassment of the locals such as restaurant owner Martha (Bain) leads to murder, a young couple who witness the incident, Amy (Sagal) and Jeff (Culp) go on the run in the woods trying to stay one step ahead of the skinheads and their underlings such as Brains (Ott). Luckily Amy and Jeff run across the cabin of Mr. Huston (Connors), a grizzled World War II veteran. Together they alternately fight and run away from the skinheads until the final confrontation. What will happen? Unfortunately - very unfortunately - Skinheads is a huge disappointment. Rather than seizing this opportunity to say something incisive, unique, interesting or different about skinheads, instead here they are just generic baddies. They just as easily could have been bikers, crazed backwoods folk, a militia group of some kind, or a group of enemies with no affiliations whatsoever. Most of the movie consists of Amy and Jeff running away from the skinheads, and it gets very repetitive. Skinheads - the movie - has the wrong plot for its idea. By that we mean, you think it's going to be an urban tale about the evil of neo-Nazis and those who stand against them. Instead, improbably, it's a wilderness slog where characters come face to face with bears and sleep in sleeping bags on the forest floor.As the evil racist leader of the skinheads, Brian Brophy looks alarmingly like "Vinny" from Jersey Shore. (Don't worry, we're ashamed we know what Vinny even looks like). His skinhead buddies have swastikas tattooed in the corner of their foreheads, and drive around in a white van with a huge swastika painted in black on the side of it, next to a circle-A "Anarchy" symbol. These anarchist-fascist youngsters have named this completely inconspicuous vehicle the "Death Van", just as the Scooby Doo gang have named their van the Mystery Machine. They have also spray painted a swastika on their blinds at home, so you know they're serious. They also have a poster of Hitler on their wall (where do you shop for one of those?) next to an S.O.D. poster, which truly shows the cluelessness of this production, as anyone who knows that band would know that placing them in this context is a complete absurdity, they are about as far from a skinhead band as it's possible to get.Interestingly enough, fellow on-screen skinheads Brian Brophy and Dennis Ott were both in the classic Road House (1989) - the same year as Skinheads. The great year of 1989 of course. The movie industry sure is funny, isn't it? The main reason we rented this is because of the presence of fan favorite Chuck Connors, and while he's decent in it, it's not really one of Chuck's best. The movie on the whole doesn't SAY anything about the skinhead subculture, it doesn't illuminate anything, or offer any solutions. But it does have a Motorhead-like song that plays often with some crazy guitar solos. Not that a low-budget exploitation movie directed by Greydon Clark has to be some sort of socially redeeming thing, but there's seriously nothing here except mindless chases that wear on the viewer very quickly.Far from the "Second Coming of Hate", as the movie's subtitle promises (unless it's referring to how you'll feel about the movie after watching it), Skinheads is dumb when it doesn't have to be. A shame, really.

In this lame thriller, a group of half-wit skinheads kill four people at a diner then chase a deeply uncharismatic couple into a forest. It's all really quite amateurish. The skinheads could be OK villains if only they weren't so moronic and the plight of the heroes would be a lot better if only they were in the least bit interesting. But alas, no. What we end up with is an extended and somewhat tedious pursuit through a forest. There are a couple of cameos courtesy of an old grizzled woodsman and an extremely tame grizzly bear. It's not really all that entertaining but sadly I have seen much worse.The soundtrack is provided by someone called Elvis Hitler and given the neo-nazi subject matter here, I sincerely hope that this is an ironic name. But in a film where the supposed most stupid member of the skinhead gang, 'Brains', is clearly only the second most stupid, anything is possible.

I purchased this at a VHS sale in the video store for .99 cents and it was worth it. This movie cannot be liked on merits of good acting , scrip , and direction..it is indeed a terrible film , but hey I like bad films as long as they're funny and entertaining which is what Skinheads:The Second Coming Of Hate is. So it turns out some "skinheads" decided to go on a killing spree at a diner , and soon follows a long chase through the woods til good ole Chuck Conners of Roots fame comes to the rescue in a bravo hammy performance. Speaking of over the top performances..the golden ham award goes to Brian Bophy's who's insane performance will have pretty much anyone rolling on the floor laughing. This isn't your Romper Stomper or American History X type movie , this is basically just "lets put people in danger..ooh let's have skinheads go after them" obviously a lifestyle the writer and director knows nothing about..so therefor this movie is surely going to offend the anti-rascist SHARP skinheads..and even the neo nazi skinheads because it puts them in such a moronic light (which by the way they are anyway so i guess justice was done). See it if you like bad movies