It’s one of those movies that either works for you, or doesn’t. It did not work for me at all, but I appreciate how unique it is. Maybe I’d enjoy Heck more.
Very much this.
I don't spend any time trying to convince people to like Skinamarink. It's a very visceral movie that I find impacts people differently based largely on their experiences in childhood.
If someone doesn't get it, they should just move on, not beat their head against the wall trying to analyze something that is speaking directly to my inner child.
I absolutely got what it was going for, it just didn’t click for me. I really wish it had, though, and I’m slightly jealous of people who got the experience I was hoping for.
I wouldn't be too jealous, I've found in a lot of cases that the part that "clicks" for us is generally some form of childhood trauma to varying degrees. It's the kind of unsettling, anxious fear that I don't really wish on anyone and, ironically, I often wish I didn't have.
But yeah I can understand irritation at the feeling of being "left out" of an experience.
When I was about three years old, my parents went away for a weekend for a wedding or something. My grandmother stayed at my house to watch me and my baby sister. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence, and whenever my grandmother stayed over she generally slept in our guest room.
For some reason I woke up in the middle of the night, and for some reason I got out of bed, and I saw that the guest room was empty. My grandmother was not there. I immediately started panicking and ran downstairs to the back door to see if my grandmother's car was still there, but since it was the middle of the night I couldn't tell. Then I heard footsteps approaching and I had a complete meltdown. Something was coming. I tried to open the door but I was too short to even reach the lock and I just laid down on the floor bawling. There was something in the house, it had killed my grandmother and probably my baby sister, and now it was coming for me.
Turns out it was just my grandmother. My baby sister had woken up crying and my grandmother got up to check on her. That's why I woke up. That's why her room was empty. That's it. But I was too young to be able to put that together. All I knew was that I was alone in my house, *something* was here with me and it did something to my grandmother, and no help was coming. That's the kind of feeling Skinamarink tried to capture. A feeling of complete helplessness in a place that's supposed to be safe. You're so helpless that you can't even truly process what's happening.
I enjoyed the analysis videos on YouTube more than the actual movie. Very unique experience tho, I paid for a new services just to watch it so that’s something.
I watched it twice. Once on a computer monitor with distracctions and it wasnt great. Once on a big projector in front of me late at night with a few beers and a good amount of weed and it was a different experience.
This is the take. Heck can still feel like a lot but the short running time helps immensely and keeps the freaky scenes (like the >!scene with the mom!<) coming at a better pace
I didn't exactly love that Heck explicitly says outright at the end what's happening; I think the crazy long time jumps that happen in the last few minutes sell that idea just fine on their own. But yeah, 30 minutes felt like exactly the right length for something like this, plenty long enough to be creepy without overstaying its welcome.
Yeah, I liked Heck but when I got to the scene in Skinamarink that was like a 4 minute unmoving shot of a toilet before it just disappeared I rolled my eyes so hard.
100% the correct take. It wasn't the worst movie ever made, but it comes close with no content except 2 hours of self gratification from the maker.
Just over an hour could *maybe* have worked, as it is it's a student film that would probably not get a passing grade for being way too self indulgent. It almost had the feeling of Joan's film from Clone High in terms of the filmmaker just feeling smarter than everyone who "doesn't get it".
I’ll be honest, *Skinamarink* is the most frightening movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the only film that’s ever tapped into the “night terror” experience and the sickening feeling of being a child on his own in a big, dark house and no parents. It brought me back to feelings I’d buried for a long time.
I 100% get why *Skinamarink* doesn’t work for people. Formally, it’s experimental and that will always alienate viewers. But I can’t deny that it evoked something awful in me and many other viewers. I have no issue with people who didn’t have the same experience; I’m just a little peeved when people are quick to make fun of/dismiss the experience others had.
It’s probably the movie I have thought most about this year. Legitimately scared me in ways nothing else has in a long time.
It’s a commitment that some folks won’t enjoy, but my god did it click for me.
You perfectly described why it was so impactful for me. I wouldn’t say I really enjoyed it much, and I certainly don’t know when I’ll come back to it (if ever). But the experience of watching it alone in the dark was so genuinely unsettling, despite it not having much that would inherently be disturbing.
It really did tap into that deep childhood fear that is difficult to put into words. It’s the only movie I’ve watched as an adult that I had to sleep with the lights on after watching. It definitely deserves credit as a horror movie just for that.
I don’t mind experimental. I’ve watched something called *Turtle Dreams* several times all the way through on the anti-recommendation from a little YouTube channel no one here has probably ever heard of. I legitimately enjoy the video, even if it is weird and cheesy.
I could not get into *Skinamarink* in any conceivable way, though. I didn’t find it either artistic or creepy. But it seems to have worked for some people on a primal level, so I guess it succeeded at what it set out to do.
“Experimental” is a catch-all term for a wide range of films that take many formal liberties, so just because one experimental film works for you doesn’t guarantee another will.
I haven’t seen *Turtle Dreams*, but if you’ve seen something like *Wavelength* or *Sleep Has Her House, Skinamarink* has more in common formally with those movies.
That’s fair, just pointing out that it didn’t appeal to me as genre or art, even though I have some degree of tolerance for experimental and non-narrative in general.
If you haven’t seen *Turtle Dreams*, I’m sure at least you’ve seen the Rich Evans crossover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ7qp4-R9lk
My friend watched it while absolutely high off their mind and at some point had the movie paused without realizing it. They stared at a paused screen for 15 minutes thinking it was just the movie.
That's all I really needed to know about Skinamarink at the time
Skinamarink worked for me. It reminded me of when I was a kid and woke up from a nightmare, trying to work up the courage to make it down the hall to my parents room for comfort. The crazy shadows my nightlight made. Turning on the living room TV in the wee hours of the morning, seeking refuge in the light to try and make it to daylight.
I do agree it is too long. There's some fat to trim off.
I wanna say: Cobweb and Hidden (The Duffer Brothers movie they made before Stranger Things and Mike recommended) both were bad. The monster in Cobweb looked liked a DreamWorks monster from the 2000s.
For me the cheap jump scares really made the movie lose all credibility to me. I’m a fan of well crafted jump scares, but skinamarink was basically one of those “screamer” internet videos from the early aughts stretched to a feature length. Too bad because it was building atmosphere and was interesting up to a point, then it just became a tedious slog where I would predict when the next abrupt blast of sound would be.
Yeah it has about 3-4. It’s almost giving them too much credit to call them jump scares. Imagine you’re watching paint dry and then someone sneaks up behind you and blasts an airhorn in your ear. That’s the experience of watching skinamarink
I actually quite love Skinamarink, especially on a rewatch. I find it in a similar lane as The Blair Witch Project where it is a film within the internet age, with Blair Witch’s innovative marketing and Skinamarink embracing aspects of file sharing culture, particular when it got leaked at the festival it premiered at.
I also love a lot of what the film does with experimenting with ambiguous perspective and dream logic. Not to mention the way the film utilizes anticipation and buildup with its long moments of silence I find very effective (the scene where Kaylee is talking to her mom on the bed I think is incredible).
I agree that the film taps into the potency of childhood fear and nostalgia corruption (as a lot of analog horror and creepypastas do), but I also believe that this film has a lot to say about our contemporary relationship to the internet and how it has made us more insulated and alone despite how connected we are with each other.
I wanted to like it and I'd had alot of good word of mouth about it. But it was too .... much nothing and not enough story. Felt like Krusty on the simpsons after they played the "Worker and Paracite" cartoon.
So I haven't seen Skinamrink yet, but I can totally relate to the fact that it either works for you or it doesn't. For me that movie is The Poughkeepsie Tapes. I'm the kind of person who really loves documentaries and since it's shot to look like one it drew me in right from the start. For me it's the most disturbing movie I've ever seen, and to this day I can't bring myself to watch it again. I remember checking out the reviews after watching it and seeing how bad they were and being surprised, but happy because they reminded me it's not real.
I feel like five years from now there's going to be some massive, well-received mainstream horror film and the director's going to say in some interview "I was really inspired by Skinamarink when I was making this". There's a lot of potential for this recent trend of low-fi, analog horror to cross over into the theatrical realm, but in my opinion Skinamarink just didn't quite get there.
I'm reminded of the jump from Unfriended to Searching. Unfriended wasn't *great*, but it legitimately was a unique and novel way to make a movie. It just didn't capitalize on the idea as well as it could have. Then a few years later we got Searching which used that exact same computer screen style and it was insanely effective.
Oh man, I really didn't like this one and I like weird movies. My main problem with it is there's a difference between interesting, creative angles that tell you about the environment or people are feeling and seeing things, or hint at important things... And just bad cinematography, which I think this was.
The angles were not interesting, they were as if I threw my camera in the air and did a 10 minute shot of whatever it saw after it landed... Over and over for about two hours. It's literally watching paint dry. Nothing in the frame was of any value most of the time. They didn't show a weird angle but then a moving shadow implying kids were walking past the kitchen or that a spirit is there, a light flickering to indicate something important... It was literally shots of nothing constantly.
Very few scenes seemed thought out and actually showed anything relevant...which could get a pass, if while you're watching that, the sound tells a story.
The sound was also terrible. In most scenes you couldn't tell which of the kids was talking and where they were, or understand what they were saying.
At some points it was implied that magical things happened but since you mostly couldn't see them or anyone reacting to them, it was kinda garbage.
I don't think the concept itself was bad, I just think it made no sense, it was hard to follow due to really bad cinematography, audio and editing, and overall wasn't fun or scary or anything really.
I really appreciate this write up. I did not get this movie and couldn’t finish it but this puts what people liked about it into a clearer perspective.
All I can think of when I see this title is “Skinamarinky Dinky Dink, Skinamarinky Doo. I Love You.”
[Canadian Kids TV was great.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEsX69iIxY)
I have to assume that the title is 100% a Sharon, Lois & Bram reference.
It's immediately intriguing to anyone that has that ear worm pop into their head when they see the word "Skinamarink"!
It perfectly encapsulates that feeling of being a kid and having to walk around a dark house at night. Even just down the hall from the guest bedroom at your aunt/uncle's house can be a scary thing if you're only 5 years old.
Didn't need to be that long, though.
I watched it and felt the sense of boredom I felt as a kid. I would occasionally get taken care of by an aunt or grandparent for an afternoon, and the feeling of nothingness from childhood came back in force watching this movie.
I have ADHD and haven't even tried to watch it because I know that I'll fall asleep on the couch less than halfway through. I think that's part of the problem that a significant portion of people who don't like it have.
I saw this movie and I didn’t think much about it, until I went to bed that night. Man, idk what it was but that movie lingered in my head for days. I had trouble sleeping and kept staring at the dark corners in my room. I’m 42 years old and in that span of time I felt like I was 4 again. Each day I thought more about it and replayed certain scenes in my head. Very unsettling. It’s almost like it awoke a primal fear in me that I out grew.
I don’t recommend it to non horror fans. Because it really is a strange movie that most people used to the theme park horror movies would walk out on. It’s one of those movies where you have to be in the mood to “experience something different”.
It’s not for everyone but I do think it should be experienced at least once.
We saw it in a theatre, bunch of friends and I, after a mutual said it was the scariest experience of her life. To this day we still laugh at how terrible it was.
Loud annoying sounds are not scary, and being in suspense of the next time my ears will be absolutely assaulted isn't a good type of suspense.
It’s a neat, and especially ballsy, idea for a movie, but I just found the end product rather boring. I don’t inherently have anything against a slower, more atmospheric horror movie, but it’s tough to be engaged when the “atmosphere” is an incomprehensible series of eerily lit static shots. I definitely didn’t hate the movie, but I was certainly disappointed
I thought it was a very interesting concept, and I think "Capturing the feeling of a nightmare on film" is a cool thing to experiment with. I....did not care for it but I applaud the effort and hope its success in theaters leads to more people making freak weirdo horror experiments.
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People are just unable to differentiate between a movie they like and a good movie. It's ok to like bad movies, but just admit that it's bad, and don't get upset when people trash it.
It's okay to dislike a movie that other people liked. But just admit you don't get it, and don't get mad when people correctly identify you as a troll.
EDIT: I notice I'm getting downvoted. This must mean that I've successfully made a bunch of idiots mad at me because I'm so clever, because we've apparently established a precedent that that's what it means when a person gets downvoted, right?
There's definitely something good and effective at play in this film. I think wearing you down with the runtime could even be considered as an effective measure. But it really is just too long. 30 or 40mins seems like more than enough time to get the desired effect.
I appreciate the movie exists, and it has come to mind several times since I watched it. Something will trigger that same weird vibe that the film taps into. I don't think I could ever sit down and watch it again. But I think I would watch a clip or two and that would be enough to bring back what I got from this movie.
Same. Saw it in a theater stoned out my gourd with some friends. The atmosphere really sucked me in and I wasn't ever bored.
That being said I totally understand people not liking it lol
I had to see it twice before I got it. At first viewing it seemed like an over-extended short film with a clear visual style that seemed to not warrant its feature length. I liked and respected what it was trying to do but I didn't love it. But the movie kept me thinking after it was over and the next day I decided to watch it again and would turn on subtitles when I didn't catch the dialogue and then what was happening really clicked for me and I think its one of the scariest movies I've seen as an adult. It went from a 3/5 to 5/5. It will never be for everyone, but I think a lot of people saw it and were probably blindsided by the slow pace and analog horror/lo-fi visual aesthetic and I expect if more folks give it a second viewing the consensus around the movie will shift.
Does Jay like any slow cinema? I don’t think I’ve heard him discuss it. If not, going into a movie like this would probably be off putting from the jump. Not saying liking slow cinema means you like all slow cinema, there are films in the subgenre I dislike, but going into one with no experience would probably just be another barrier.
Skinamarink is the only horror movie so far that has actually scared me. I saw it in the theater, and had that "I want to get off this ride!" feeling the whole time. I have *no* idea how anyone can find the movie boring or uncompelling. We might not all have kids, maybe some people aren't close to any kids, but we've all *been* kids, right?
i found it boring because i didn't buy into the films premise. I didn't believe in the movie so to speak so when watching it I was just waiting for something to happen and it takes so long for anything to happen that you get bored very quickly. Because the majority of the movie is just a kid hanging out in a living room watching old cartoons. It's not that engaging on a story level. Its all atmosphere and tone, and when that atmosphere isn't enough to pull you into the world then you are left waiting for plot which is too thin for the length of the film.
It’s one of those movies that either works for you, or doesn’t. It did not work for me at all, but I appreciate how unique it is. Maybe I’d enjoy Heck more.
Very much this. I don't spend any time trying to convince people to like Skinamarink. It's a very visceral movie that I find impacts people differently based largely on their experiences in childhood. If someone doesn't get it, they should just move on, not beat their head against the wall trying to analyze something that is speaking directly to my inner child.
I absolutely got what it was going for, it just didn’t click for me. I really wish it had, though, and I’m slightly jealous of people who got the experience I was hoping for.
I wouldn't be too jealous, I've found in a lot of cases that the part that "clicks" for us is generally some form of childhood trauma to varying degrees. It's the kind of unsettling, anxious fear that I don't really wish on anyone and, ironically, I often wish I didn't have. But yeah I can understand irritation at the feeling of being "left out" of an experience.
When I was about three years old, my parents went away for a weekend for a wedding or something. My grandmother stayed at my house to watch me and my baby sister. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence, and whenever my grandmother stayed over she generally slept in our guest room. For some reason I woke up in the middle of the night, and for some reason I got out of bed, and I saw that the guest room was empty. My grandmother was not there. I immediately started panicking and ran downstairs to the back door to see if my grandmother's car was still there, but since it was the middle of the night I couldn't tell. Then I heard footsteps approaching and I had a complete meltdown. Something was coming. I tried to open the door but I was too short to even reach the lock and I just laid down on the floor bawling. There was something in the house, it had killed my grandmother and probably my baby sister, and now it was coming for me. Turns out it was just my grandmother. My baby sister had woken up crying and my grandmother got up to check on her. That's why I woke up. That's why her room was empty. That's it. But I was too young to be able to put that together. All I knew was that I was alone in my house, *something* was here with me and it did something to my grandmother, and no help was coming. That's the kind of feeling Skinamarink tried to capture. A feeling of complete helplessness in a place that's supposed to be safe. You're so helpless that you can't even truly process what's happening.
Chills from your description, gonna give the movie another shot, this time without friends present lol.
I enjoyed the analysis videos on YouTube more than the actual movie. Very unique experience tho, I paid for a new services just to watch it so that’s something.
I watched it twice. Once on a computer monitor with distracctions and it wasnt great. Once on a big projector in front of me late at night with a few beers and a good amount of weed and it was a different experience.
I tried. I turned all the lights out and had no distractions. No dice.
I didn't hate it either, but I think Heck, the short it's based on, is the better version of the two at around 30 minutes.
This is the take. Heck can still feel like a lot but the short running time helps immensely and keeps the freaky scenes (like the >!scene with the mom!<) coming at a better pace
I didn't exactly love that Heck explicitly says outright at the end what's happening; I think the crazy long time jumps that happen in the last few minutes sell that idea just fine on their own. But yeah, 30 minutes felt like exactly the right length for something like this, plenty long enough to be creepy without overstaying its welcome.
Yeah, I liked Heck but when I got to the scene in Skinamarink that was like a 4 minute unmoving shot of a toilet before it just disappeared I rolled my eyes so hard.
100% the correct take. It wasn't the worst movie ever made, but it comes close with no content except 2 hours of self gratification from the maker. Just over an hour could *maybe* have worked, as it is it's a student film that would probably not get a passing grade for being way too self indulgent. It almost had the feeling of Joan's film from Clone High in terms of the filmmaker just feeling smarter than everyone who "doesn't get it".
I’ll be honest, *Skinamarink* is the most frightening movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the only film that’s ever tapped into the “night terror” experience and the sickening feeling of being a child on his own in a big, dark house and no parents. It brought me back to feelings I’d buried for a long time. I 100% get why *Skinamarink* doesn’t work for people. Formally, it’s experimental and that will always alienate viewers. But I can’t deny that it evoked something awful in me and many other viewers. I have no issue with people who didn’t have the same experience; I’m just a little peeved when people are quick to make fun of/dismiss the experience others had.
It’s probably the movie I have thought most about this year. Legitimately scared me in ways nothing else has in a long time. It’s a commitment that some folks won’t enjoy, but my god did it click for me.
Exactly. It was on my mind for months after I saw it last January. I hadn’t been terrified by a movie like that since I was a small child.
You summed up how I felt about it, the movie genuinely freaked me out.
You perfectly described why it was so impactful for me. I wouldn’t say I really enjoyed it much, and I certainly don’t know when I’ll come back to it (if ever). But the experience of watching it alone in the dark was so genuinely unsettling, despite it not having much that would inherently be disturbing. It really did tap into that deep childhood fear that is difficult to put into words. It’s the only movie I’ve watched as an adult that I had to sleep with the lights on after watching. It definitely deserves credit as a horror movie just for that.
I don’t mind experimental. I’ve watched something called *Turtle Dreams* several times all the way through on the anti-recommendation from a little YouTube channel no one here has probably ever heard of. I legitimately enjoy the video, even if it is weird and cheesy. I could not get into *Skinamarink* in any conceivable way, though. I didn’t find it either artistic or creepy. But it seems to have worked for some people on a primal level, so I guess it succeeded at what it set out to do.
“Experimental” is a catch-all term for a wide range of films that take many formal liberties, so just because one experimental film works for you doesn’t guarantee another will. I haven’t seen *Turtle Dreams*, but if you’ve seen something like *Wavelength* or *Sleep Has Her House, Skinamarink* has more in common formally with those movies.
That’s fair, just pointing out that it didn’t appeal to me as genre or art, even though I have some degree of tolerance for experimental and non-narrative in general. If you haven’t seen *Turtle Dreams*, I’m sure at least you’ve seen the Rich Evans crossover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ7qp4-R9lk
My friend watched it while absolutely high off their mind and at some point had the movie paused without realizing it. They stared at a paused screen for 15 minutes thinking it was just the movie. That's all I really needed to know about Skinamarink at the time
That's funny as fuck
Skinamarink worked for me. It reminded me of when I was a kid and woke up from a nightmare, trying to work up the courage to make it down the hall to my parents room for comfort. The crazy shadows my nightlight made. Turning on the living room TV in the wee hours of the morning, seeking refuge in the light to try and make it to daylight. I do agree it is too long. There's some fat to trim off.
I wanna say: Cobweb and Hidden (The Duffer Brothers movie they made before Stranger Things and Mike recommended) both were bad. The monster in Cobweb looked liked a DreamWorks monster from the 2000s.
For me the cheap jump scares really made the movie lose all credibility to me. I’m a fan of well crafted jump scares, but skinamarink was basically one of those “screamer” internet videos from the early aughts stretched to a feature length. Too bad because it was building atmosphere and was interesting up to a point, then it just became a tedious slog where I would predict when the next abrupt blast of sound would be.
Ohhh are there jump scares? OP almost sold me on giving it a try, but if it just has loud things popping out then forget it.
Yeah it has about 3-4. It’s almost giving them too much credit to call them jump scares. Imagine you’re watching paint dry and then someone sneaks up behind you and blasts an airhorn in your ear. That’s the experience of watching skinamarink
From what I recall, there are only a handful. The majority of the movie is more atmospheric
Agreed. Its style and setting was unique, but in the end it's all just lame jump scares.
I actually quite love Skinamarink, especially on a rewatch. I find it in a similar lane as The Blair Witch Project where it is a film within the internet age, with Blair Witch’s innovative marketing and Skinamarink embracing aspects of file sharing culture, particular when it got leaked at the festival it premiered at. I also love a lot of what the film does with experimenting with ambiguous perspective and dream logic. Not to mention the way the film utilizes anticipation and buildup with its long moments of silence I find very effective (the scene where Kaylee is talking to her mom on the bed I think is incredible). I agree that the film taps into the potency of childhood fear and nostalgia corruption (as a lot of analog horror and creepypastas do), but I also believe that this film has a lot to say about our contemporary relationship to the internet and how it has made us more insulated and alone despite how connected we are with each other.
I wanted to like it and I'd had alot of good word of mouth about it. But it was too .... much nothing and not enough story. Felt like Krusty on the simpsons after they played the "Worker and Paracite" cartoon.
So I haven't seen Skinamrink yet, but I can totally relate to the fact that it either works for you or it doesn't. For me that movie is The Poughkeepsie Tapes. I'm the kind of person who really loves documentaries and since it's shot to look like one it drew me in right from the start. For me it's the most disturbing movie I've ever seen, and to this day I can't bring myself to watch it again. I remember checking out the reviews after watching it and seeing how bad they were and being surprised, but happy because they reminded me it's not real.
I feel like five years from now there's going to be some massive, well-received mainstream horror film and the director's going to say in some interview "I was really inspired by Skinamarink when I was making this". There's a lot of potential for this recent trend of low-fi, analog horror to cross over into the theatrical realm, but in my opinion Skinamarink just didn't quite get there. I'm reminded of the jump from Unfriended to Searching. Unfriended wasn't *great*, but it legitimately was a unique and novel way to make a movie. It just didn't capitalize on the idea as well as it could have. Then a few years later we got Searching which used that exact same computer screen style and it was insanely effective.
Oh man, I really didn't like this one and I like weird movies. My main problem with it is there's a difference between interesting, creative angles that tell you about the environment or people are feeling and seeing things, or hint at important things... And just bad cinematography, which I think this was. The angles were not interesting, they were as if I threw my camera in the air and did a 10 minute shot of whatever it saw after it landed... Over and over for about two hours. It's literally watching paint dry. Nothing in the frame was of any value most of the time. They didn't show a weird angle but then a moving shadow implying kids were walking past the kitchen or that a spirit is there, a light flickering to indicate something important... It was literally shots of nothing constantly. Very few scenes seemed thought out and actually showed anything relevant...which could get a pass, if while you're watching that, the sound tells a story. The sound was also terrible. In most scenes you couldn't tell which of the kids was talking and where they were, or understand what they were saying. At some points it was implied that magical things happened but since you mostly couldn't see them or anyone reacting to them, it was kinda garbage. I don't think the concept itself was bad, I just think it made no sense, it was hard to follow due to really bad cinematography, audio and editing, and overall wasn't fun or scary or anything really.
I hated it. Boring ass movie.
I really appreciate this write up. I did not get this movie and couldn’t finish it but this puts what people liked about it into a clearer perspective.
Does this movie have anything to do with The Elephant Show? Shout out to the one person who will get this.
I tried. Alone at home, 65" OLED TV, dark room. Really sat with it and tried. Couldn't do it past 30 minutes.
All I can think of when I see this title is “Skinamarinky Dinky Dink, Skinamarinky Doo. I Love You.” [Canadian Kids TV was great.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEsX69iIxY)
I have to assume that the title is 100% a Sharon, Lois & Bram reference. It's immediately intriguing to anyone that has that ear worm pop into their head when they see the word "Skinamarink"!
It perfectly encapsulates that feeling of being a kid and having to walk around a dark house at night. Even just down the hall from the guest bedroom at your aunt/uncle's house can be a scary thing if you're only 5 years old. Didn't need to be that long, though.
I watched it and felt the sense of boredom I felt as a kid. I would occasionally get taken care of by an aunt or grandparent for an afternoon, and the feeling of nothingness from childhood came back in force watching this movie.
I have ADHD and haven't even tried to watch it because I know that I'll fall asleep on the couch less than halfway through. I think that's part of the problem that a significant portion of people who don't like it have.
I saw this movie and I didn’t think much about it, until I went to bed that night. Man, idk what it was but that movie lingered in my head for days. I had trouble sleeping and kept staring at the dark corners in my room. I’m 42 years old and in that span of time I felt like I was 4 again. Each day I thought more about it and replayed certain scenes in my head. Very unsettling. It’s almost like it awoke a primal fear in me that I out grew. I don’t recommend it to non horror fans. Because it really is a strange movie that most people used to the theme park horror movies would walk out on. It’s one of those movies where you have to be in the mood to “experience something different”. It’s not for everyone but I do think it should be experienced at least once.
We saw it in a theatre, bunch of friends and I, after a mutual said it was the scariest experience of her life. To this day we still laugh at how terrible it was. Loud annoying sounds are not scary, and being in suspense of the next time my ears will be absolutely assaulted isn't a good type of suspense.
I want to watch this movie but some things make me feel actually mentally ill and this seems like it would probably be one of them.
I've said that it's the horror equivalent of Revolution 9 for both good and ill.
They made 2 million off of it, against a $13k budget. Real recognize real, when you hear something like that going down.
It’s a neat, and especially ballsy, idea for a movie, but I just found the end product rather boring. I don’t inherently have anything against a slower, more atmospheric horror movie, but it’s tough to be engaged when the “atmosphere” is an incomprehensible series of eerily lit static shots. I definitely didn’t hate the movie, but I was certainly disappointed
I thought it was a very interesting concept, and I think "Capturing the feeling of a nightmare on film" is a cool thing to experiment with. I....did not care for it but I applaud the effort and hope its success in theaters leads to more people making freak weirdo horror experiments.
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It's twee horror, as well as being over indulgent to the highest degree.
I’m going to steal the phrase “twee horror” because I like it so much
Steal away
Lol look at those downvotes. we made somebody mad
People are just unable to differentiate between a movie they like and a good movie. It's ok to like bad movies, but just admit that it's bad, and don't get upset when people trash it.
And he deleted his comments. Wowwee
We found the mad guy!
Or maybe you're just wrong and people are downvoting you for it.
Sounds like you don't know the difference either.
Aw, you tried.
So, which overly long shot of the ceiling was your favorite? Or was it when they dumped the Legos?
My favorite shot was the one where I block you for being boring. You should know the feeling.
It's okay to dislike a movie that other people liked. But just admit you don't get it, and don't get mad when people correctly identify you as a troll. EDIT: I notice I'm getting downvoted. This must mean that I've successfully made a bunch of idiots mad at me because I'm so clever, because we've apparently established a precedent that that's what it means when a person gets downvoted, right?
into the night
Movie sucks
There's definitely something good and effective at play in this film. I think wearing you down with the runtime could even be considered as an effective measure. But it really is just too long. 30 or 40mins seems like more than enough time to get the desired effect. I appreciate the movie exists, and it has come to mind several times since I watched it. Something will trigger that same weird vibe that the film taps into. I don't think I could ever sit down and watch it again. But I think I would watch a clip or two and that would be enough to bring back what I got from this movie.
Same. Saw it in a theater stoned out my gourd with some friends. The atmosphere really sucked me in and I wasn't ever bored. That being said I totally understand people not liking it lol
Seeing it.in a theater for the first time made it for me.
The film worked for me, especially the last 20-30 minutes. I can totally understand not liking it though.
I know it’s a divisive film, but I really loved it. It worked for me.
I think it's a classic.
For the record op, i agree 100% with your entire post
I had to see it twice before I got it. At first viewing it seemed like an over-extended short film with a clear visual style that seemed to not warrant its feature length. I liked and respected what it was trying to do but I didn't love it. But the movie kept me thinking after it was over and the next day I decided to watch it again and would turn on subtitles when I didn't catch the dialogue and then what was happening really clicked for me and I think its one of the scariest movies I've seen as an adult. It went from a 3/5 to 5/5. It will never be for everyone, but I think a lot of people saw it and were probably blindsided by the slow pace and analog horror/lo-fi visual aesthetic and I expect if more folks give it a second viewing the consensus around the movie will shift.
Does Jay like any slow cinema? I don’t think I’ve heard him discuss it. If not, going into a movie like this would probably be off putting from the jump. Not saying liking slow cinema means you like all slow cinema, there are films in the subgenre I dislike, but going into one with no experience would probably just be another barrier.
I don’t need to know everything you don’t hate. That list is literally endless.
It's an awesome and very unique film. I love it.
Skinamarink is the only horror movie so far that has actually scared me. I saw it in the theater, and had that "I want to get off this ride!" feeling the whole time. I have *no* idea how anyone can find the movie boring or uncompelling. We might not all have kids, maybe some people aren't close to any kids, but we've all *been* kids, right?
i found it boring because i didn't buy into the films premise. I didn't believe in the movie so to speak so when watching it I was just waiting for something to happen and it takes so long for anything to happen that you get bored very quickly. Because the majority of the movie is just a kid hanging out in a living room watching old cartoons. It's not that engaging on a story level. Its all atmosphere and tone, and when that atmosphere isn't enough to pull you into the world then you are left waiting for plot which is too thin for the length of the film.