Under The Terminator's Skin

Terminator is widely regarded as an action series, but the first film can be argued to fit in the horror genre as well. In many ways, it could be considered a time travel slasher flick, and this short highlights those aspects. The ambient, alien, unnerving soundtrack really drives home the atmosphere. Cutting the story down to an extended chase shouldn't work, but the editor pulled it off with style! It's quite seamless. Most impressive. I believe that he also did some color correction? Or perhaps I'm just not familiar with the more recent remasters of the film. At any rate, it looks quite nice from an aesthetic standpoint. Technically, there's some obvious compression, and the frame rate isn't presented in the standard 3:2 pulldown. Still, a very entertaining, well put together short. Well worth watching.

Audio editing was brilliant. Made and old story feel new. Great work.

Amazing how the very oppressive new music from another movie can change the mood of The Terminator and still perfectly fits as something that could have been used in the 80's.
The music does not highlight every actions of the characters but creates a very dark mood that goes very well with the violence. Pretty interesting exercise in style.

He just won't die!!

This was a great cut of an old classic. This is pretty much all the action from Terminator, in one fell swoop. At times, I needed to remind myself to take a deep breath... it just goes and goes and goes. The music keeps the whole thing on the epic edge.

I didn't even notice any cuts at all - a sure sign of a good edit. Bravo!

The unnerving score of Under the Skin combined with The Terminator. I thought that both the scene and score selection was spot on and fit well together, that the narrative was clear, and that the chase scenes actually had more tension to them than they did in the original. Only critique, fairly minor: I would've spent a little less time on the final chase to allow for more plot before then.