Skinning humans ...

Every other day I want a movie where some psycho/alien/demon goes about skinning its human victims. Sometimes there are even scenes where he/she/it cuts into the victim and peels the skin away. And that just pisses me off. Because that's just plain unrealistic and stupid.

When I was in my self-destructive phase I once cut a triagle of into my left forearm and then tried to just peel away the skin like I had seen it done in the movies. But of course it didn't work that way. You have to grab one flab of skin and then cut close to it to it to get it loose from the muscle tissue beneath. When you finally get it loose you have chunks of meat still attached to the piece of skin and not some tidy piece of leather or something. It also takes much longer then it does in the movies but maybe that's because I was inexperienced.

Sometime later I had the pleasure to attend an autopsy that one of my med student friends performed and could see that it's exactly the same when dealing with a dead body.

So how am I supposed to watch stuff like HELLRAISER without ? I hope they at least got it right for IN MY SKIN, a movie that I haven't seen yet but which is supposedly very accurate when it comes to depicting that kind of self mutilation.

Exactly. That's why it's so annoying when in like TCM2 or DAGON they cut off a face in one minute. To get it right you'd have to take your time. I'd say 15 to 30 minutes if you want to get the eyebrows and eyelashes as well as maybe the lips intact. Also the cheeks are VERY tricky because the tissue beneath is very thin and if you're not careful you can damage your future skinmask.

None of the above. I usually keep them in my appartment until they begin to stink, then I cut them up and flush the parts down the toilet. It's really messy but extremely effective because you don't have to drag the corpse around and risk getting caught (literally) redhanded.

I usually start with the head. First I cut it off, which is not that hard. You have to insert the knife between two of the spine's carpals and wedge them apart. That works better than, say, hacking the thing off with an axe. Once I have the whole thing seperated from the rest of the body I boil the flesh off the skull and flush that first before I crack the skull into small enough pieces and do the same. Basically I do the whole body like that. Cut it into sizeable pieces, boil the flesh off the bones and saw/hammer the bones down to the proper size. I guess it can be annoying and hard work for some of us but for me it's really part of the whole and I usually get so into it that I have sex with the body parts and also eat some of the meat.

If you have any further questions, just let me know!

Tata,

Wetbones.

They would have definitely needed an advisor because as it is it's fairly obvious that the whole thing was staged. There's a lot about the Nick Berg snuff tape that isn't adding up, and it's not only the death. The 'terrorist' with the notes constantly gets lost, and flips them around like he's confused. If he could read the papers, wouldn't he know exactly where his place was? Or was it some loser who doesn't even read Arabic? Another fun thing is how Nick Berg never moves during the bit where they're reading the papers. I can accept that, even facing death, a man may not cry, or shit his pants, or try to crawl away. But the fact that he's just hangin' out, white as a sheet, doesn't bode well with me. Could be that he was fed a few pounds of valium before the incident. Why the hell would terrorists want their already bound victim so calm? More importantly, why does the time code skip around like a fuckin' bitch? The first shot we see of Berg speaking is at 13:26:24. Then it jumps to 2:16:33. Then, he's on the floor, bound, at 2:40:33 and plays until 2:44:11. Then, it jumps to 13:45:47 to 13:45:53, when it shows him on the ground, being cut. Then, it jumps ahead AGAIN to 13:44:59, and plays out until 13:46:33. Then, it jumps to 13:47:47, at which point the decapitators identity clearly switches to the guy in a white hood, minus his vest. Unless the killers swapped hoods at this point. Which is just silly. So, they got the footage of Nick Berg saying "I have a mother, and father, and brother and sister" half an hour BEFORE dragging him down, interrogated (or whatever) him for 11 HOURS, made him say "My name is Nick Berg", and then put him back on the floor and cut his head off. Why? This is the timecode logic alone. I won't mention the killers not saying anything about who they are, or for what reason they did this. I won't get in to the fact that the walls, floor, and chair he's in do bear a striking resemblance to Abu-Gahrib. And I won't even start in on the fact that it would be VERY difficult to saw through someone's spine in... Lessee... 13:45:47 to 13:47:46... 2 minutes, including the knife clearly switching hands somewhere. Why, the fuck, would terrorists making a video to freak people out cut the most vulgar, vile part of the execution out? That's almost as asanine as NBC's ruling that on a show like Fear Factor, you can show a person eating live spiders or rotten egg sacs or bull penis, but you can't show them upchucking it after the fact.

That is all well and good but what about us urban mass murderers? I'm not even allowed to keep a cat or a friggin parrot in my flat so how should I go about keeping a herd of pigs? Thing is, most psychos are big city dwellers and while your advice is good it just doesn't cut it in these areas ...

It is of the utmost importance to remove your victim's internal organs ASAP if you want to keep him/her around for a while after death. The bacteria in the intestinal tract will kick start decomposition as soon as the body dies and if you don't remove them along with the organs that harbour them you'll find yourself in the company of a bloated human sausage within a day or two.

The best way to do it IMO is to make an incision in the lower belly and drag everything out that way, including the lungs. It doesn't ruin the beauty of the body the way a cut from cervix to sternum would. Then dispose of the vile stuff and have fun with your corpse!