Hi lovely folks, I’m Ciara writer and director of Dead Skin. This was a labour of a lot of love, a lot of sweat, tears, bacon fat, scratchy school uniforms and latex. On behalf of me and the team, thank you for taking the time to watch, like, share and comment on the film. It means a lot and we can’t thank you enough. As someone who inherited sensitive skin and painful acne from my dad, I’ve constantly tried to find ways to cover up. A wise friend on an excruciatingly hot school trip to Berlin had to talk some sense into me because I kept wearing jumpers in a heat wave. I never knew she had the same acne problems until that trip. So this is definitely for all the acne skin sensitive dearies that just need a hug and a GP referral. Thanks once again and so excited to see what you all think. Any questions I’ll do my best to answer✨

Ironic that at the very end when she looked her worst, she was the most happy and pleasant of the entire film.

She just wants „out of her skin“, very relatable, also amazing actress! The look of angry shame at the locker with the girls talking! And the mother treating her problems only at the surface…

As a girl in her 20s, I’m loving all the makeup and skincare horror shorts these days. In a dark way, women’s constant need to be perfect every single day really shows in these shorts. It’s an obsessive desire to chase perfection that doesn’t exist.

i love the way we cut from bloody bathroom with skin on the floor to BACON!! 🤣🤣

As a person who has suffered from psoriasis for 50+ years, I know whats it like to want to scratch and rip, and to have people stare. I have had some awful experiences in my time and this film certainly hit the mark with me. 10/10. It took 40years to realise that what people think means shit, be yourself, be confident and be proud.

Omg I can relate to the skin issues. I have eczema and bad UV allergy. It’s not fun when you can’t go to the beach/pool or wear summer clothes without a care like everyone else around you.

"To bad weather, good face!" Jess exclaimed... as her mother screamed in horror at the sight of her bloody face.

I took my grandma to one of those places where the fish eat dead skin. It cost me $50, but it was a hell of a lot cheaper than a funeral.

This is hit really close to home! I have psoriasis, and in my senior year of high school it was really bad. Even teachers treated me terribly. Well done!~

These shorts would make for a great anthology type film. Great acting, great stories. Thank you :)

I doubt you'll watch this movie and not feel a slight itch

Agh as someone with a skin condition this just hits the spotttt the constant picking the way it gets worse through out the day I love this sm

Absolutely brilliant. Unique, well acted, and a great storyline. I loved the transition from the bathroom scene to the frying bacon - subtle, if that can be called subtle! Now this is what innovative story-telling is all about.

As a person with sensitive skin and with a habit of scratching out scabs, I kinda felt the same way as the girl felt. Good film showing. :)

Honestly, I think you can take this one in two ways. A skin care horror, or a methaphore for becoming am adult, as in getting rid of the childhood and embracing adulthood

We hope you enjoy our short and remember “don’t scratch…”👀

Oh, this is so relatable. I have sensitive skin that if i don't pay attention to the products I use, i either get severe acne or severe dermatitis. And when i was a teenager, i was repeatedly forced to endure painful superficial skin treatments. It started simple enough with a Salicylic acid face wash, but went on to stupid mud masks and straight up cinnamon and honey on the skin that burned like hell. Those were the most torturous times of my life. It's only when i let it be, changed all my products to simpler ones and focused on things other than my skin that i recovered. My skin still reacts badly from time to time, but it is never as severe as back then. My family's ill-advised pursuit of beauty and perfection hurt me a lot. Can't beleieve how much money was spent on bogus products by big brands...

OMG......the end was shocking.......n what kind of mother is that,she is not looking at her daughter's problem? Or doing anything

Yes..its little terrifying.

How are all you twisted awesome beautiful horror movie fans doing today?

I went through a year in middle school with eczema all over most of my body. Gym class was a nightmare, and that locker room scene had me living some bad memories. Horror movies about skin issues always get under my skin (no pun intended)

I should've known better than to be eating whilst watching...my bad! LOL!!! ;)

I think she has eczema

That transition with the skin and the bacon though….

The child is a good actress. I did not expect such ending.

I was waiting for the mother to take that bloody washing down leaving it to soak up bacon fat thats the true horror 😮

Kudos to the entire crew for such an impressive production. The visuals and sound design were absolutely amazing.

It is fantastic! No words! Absolutely perfect production!

as a person with eczema and psoriasis, I can relate to video a lot and the burning urge inside you that makes you want to scratch yourself is unbearable,so thank you for making this film.❤❤

Sad situation & one hell of an ending with some fine acting on Elizabeth's end . I can't see any mom just shrugging this off as Jess continues to get worse & worse & i don't care who you are when you got to scratch ya got to scratch . Got to wonder just what her so called friends will think of the new Jess !!!

I think this is a beautiful portrayal of what we have to let go of the expectations and do what we have to do in order to feel better and smile.

*Oh you know when you get an itch and it feels so good that it hurts!! Oh yeah baby, haha*

Getting skinned is my big fear and this gave me goosebumps 😢 it was interesting tho 😂

yessssss!!!

Pls never stop making these amazing films 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Please Jess…make an appointment with your GP… orrrr 🤔go to the Hospital… 🏥 🚨 EMERGENCY…I think! 🫢😲🤢 P.s…I do admire your positive spirit and energy though.😅 Oh dear, now I’m as itchy as all heck! 😳

I have sensitive skin so the fact I can relate to this film so much is just wild 😂

as someone with dermatillomania, this hits a little harder than it should

She felt good at this💀💀💀

Brutal and to the point. Kudos!

This short film is been stucked in my head since last 2 day... 😭

This reminds me of myself, since I tend to scratch my skin whenever I'm nervous. Great film!

The ending though oh my God.

This film scares me because it hits so close to home i suffered from bad acne and i use to pick at them leaving sores all over my face but i was able to overcome that and learned sugar is my nemesis

Poor Jessica hope she got it sorted

Lots of coming-of-age horror (especially female centred) is body horror. Symbolism of not feeling comfortable in our skin and/or our bodies changing. Just an observation! Great movie but I’d love to see a different take on it (maybe just a genre outside of body horror) but great movie! ❤️

Brilliant ❤

Oh my very good to watch great job

She reminds me of skinless Julia from the hellraiser movie 😂

Quite a few "skin" films lately

Good one i enjoyed it keep doing them well done ❤ from Australia

I have super sensitive skin and regularly wake up with huge patches of bleeding, red raw rashes where I've scratched in my sleep. I also have the condition where it feels like insects are crawling on your skin. The need to itch is unreal. I think this short has a double meaning though, at least for me, being a girl who never fit in and would have given anything to be in someone elses skin, just for one day.

This short hits way close to home for my family and I. My sister and I used to get severe flare ups from ecszema when we were teens. It starts as a small itchy patch of skin on the inner elbow and before you know it your scratching your whole upper arm. What started out the size of a quarter that morning has now become a whole dollar bill at the end of the day. Sometimes you dont even realize your scratching your arm throughout the day. Trying hard to not scratch and applying cortizone and benedryl is all done in vain. So its time to pull out the big guns and get a prescription for Triamcinolone ointment or cream. A topical steroid that when applied a couple times a day for a few days it successfuly stops the flareups. However your skin acclimates and when another flareup occurs it becomes worse than before. Its a vicious cycle. In worse case scenarios for my sister and i the ecszema would spread in huge patches throughout our arms, legs, stomach and neck. As a teen this caused being alot more self conscious with our body. My sis and i are now in our thirtys. We still get flareups from time to time but no where near as severe as we used to.

This is top quality stuff. ❤❤❤

One of the BEST youtube ever. Why is it only 3million subs??????????????????. I just stumble on the after i search for laboratory containment. 10/10⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Just want to add that my mother tried to get me to use creams for occasional dermititus or acne, and it always burned and made my skin worse, so I stopped believing her and never used anything but ivory soap and had no issues from then on. This reminds me of that time. Trying to do what she wanted then giving up.

Is she a mute, like SPEAK dammit😂

Wow. Sad, thoughtful, and horrifying. Great job!! I've really really struggled with acne for a lot of my life, so I can heavily relate. I'm much better now, but for years and years it was absolutely horrible. Also 8:18 REALLY got me. So painful. So sad omg 😭

O wow this is a good one.

I recognize that this film was meant to exaggerate the horrors of skin issues, but for me (before I read the creator’s comment) I saw this as a film about when mental illness become too much, but you don’t know how to properly communicate it to the people who truly care about you (in this case, Jesse’s mum.) because you know they won’t really understand. In this case, Jess found a solution to her problem, even though the solution was shocking and unhealthy (representing addiction/unhealthy coping mechanisms). She found relief after giving in to the very urge she was omitted from by her mother. Idk I’m probably definitely looking way too far into it. Either way, this was a great film.

That was excellent! Really intense, yet relatable. I’ve had skin flare ups before, and sometimes I just wanted to take it off like a wet suit, soak it in skincare products and put it back on again. Luckily, it’s not as bad anymore 😊 P.S. I’ll not be eating bacon again for a while! 😂😂

Sehr gut 👍

WTH 😮 Jess yeah😹

The peeling of skin to bacon cooking was probably the most nauseating transitions I've ever encountered

so relatable with eczema

I SAW THE FEMALE GAZE! A few minutes into the film I asked myself whether a man or a woman directed it, and I immediately knew. Amazing work

Hell yeah! Alter is here to save the day!!!

Brasil ligado no canal

Love your short films

i wasnt planning on washing my face but I had the inspiration to do so lol

This one was pretty good. I hope the actress wasn't actually allergic to the things being used on her skin for this short

Pleeeaaase my eczema ointment looked exactly like that HAHA

Eu amo os seus vídeos 🎉

woahhh

LOL. Takes teenage skin problems to extremes. I've been itching since I was a small child. Luckily it comes and goes and is nowhere near as bad as some people have it. It must be so awful I feel for them

Thatsnwas gross made me nauseated

Ouch

Hm and I thought my acne was severe. Well at least she showed her inner beauty.

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9:13 is it bacon or is it skin ? we shall never know

There's these things called dermatologists lol

I feel itchy.

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What's with the tree scene?

bacon 😅

Dayum

Why didn't this girl's mother take her to the doctor? 🙄 since her problem was spreading throughout her body

Thanks beautiful xD. XD

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i love body horror

As someone from the USA, I’m convinced that’s how all English mothers dress

OMG😮

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Are they British Irish or Australian this film is a metaphor for skin break out btw

Mum, again at the very end, "Don't make that face!"😅😉. Jess is not lacking in security, having accepted her fate,,,what was she infected by? Radi☢️tion? Is she allergic to 'adulthood'? Some type of 'self-harm', i.e., taking cutter farther? Well prom time is here, have a nice prom night! Very creeeepy short

😂 morning

Worse reaction from a mother, ever.

I understand she's dealing with some rough stuff but being ride to her mother and ignoring is not gonna make it better.. Idk I just don't like ungrateful and disrespectful kids..