"The whole goddamn world is a fag!"
John Waters is the obvious touchstone here. However, there's a sweetness closer to the surface in No Skin than Waters' early work. Waters' movies are the violent proto-punk to No Skin's kinky post-punk.
The characters in Waters' movies form a blanket counterculture that revels in all things queer and criminal. They literally weaponize their outsider status, carrying out murder sprees and rattling off litanies of perversions both real and imagined. They exist to…