“Skin Walker” (* out of four) was an incomprehensible horror story about a troubled young woman (Amber Anderson) who tries to escape from the dark secrets of her family (Udo Kier, Jefferson Hall, and others) but is forced to confront them when she has to return to the family’s estate and has to relive her various traumas to uncover the many secrets of her and her family’s past. The film equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle that you simply don’t care about putting together, as film plods through unpleasant characters and cerebral plot twists that make hardly any sense. A film that cries out for (and imitates) the hypnotic artistry of Guillermo del Tormo.

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