SKIN FLICKS                       

Written by Ken Roht                      
Composed by Ken Roht, John Ballinger, 
Curtis Heard and John Torres                                                                                         

SKIN FLICKS, is a darkly humorous, theatrical-band musical about maintaining integrity despite our flawed upbringing and challenging circumstances. Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the documentary about racy cartoonist R. Crumb, Crumb, have inspired the making of this musical. 
 

SKIN FLICKS takes the form of a film retrospective that is celebrating and analyzing the work of Hal and Dee Dee Davis, sibling erotica-musical filmmakers who began making Cocteau-inspired erotica as teenagers in their garage.

Their journey, to eventually making softcore feature-length musicals in the San Fernando Valley, the porn capital of the world, is demonstrated through video-projected fragments of films and other archival media, and through the accompanying songs and anecdotes. During the presentation there are actual audience Q&A sections.

This retrospective is also a family reunion, as Hal and Dee Dee had a falling out several years ago, and they’re attempting to use this event to come back together. Their brother Donny, prone to outbursts, traumatized from an early age by his siblings’ rampant immorality, plays keyboards; and Evan, a hapless porn stud responsible for the rift between Hal and Dee Dee, is on bass.

In the end, the family decides to start over, making small experimental art films together.