Skinamarink is what early childhood trauma feels like. Something powerful terrorizing you for reasons you don't understand, because you're so young. you barely have the language to describe your OWN feelings, much less understand the cycle of abuse. all you know is that you're unsafe and afraid and you can't escape. It just keeps happening and you don't know why.
I haven't watched this movie yet because I couldn't even get through the first three minutes do to the familiarity of the discomfort and dread reminding me of childhood abuse. Someone on Letterboxd mentioned that you can also draw a conclusion that the movie is about childhood trauma and honestly that has stuck with me the entire time, as I couldn't even get through five minutes without being sucked back into the childhood I grew up in. Liminal spaces, dark rooms, scary open closets, leaving the TV on and watching the door to my bedroom to see if it would open, etc. It is such an unsettling movie, and one day I hope to be able to watch it in its entirety. But as someone who loves horror and hasn't been scared of a single one up until Nope came out... the fact that this movie is so psychologically invasive and dreadful is INCREDIBLE.
I saw this in the movie theater when I came out and that is the best way to see it. It is like a nightmare with visuals and soundtrack that you can't stop. You can't turn down the sound or pause it. The chair in the theater could lean back, so I felt like I was having an actual nightmare. And when the movie was over, and the lights immediately came back on, it felt like I just woke. Scary experience that I don't know if you can recreate at home
I saw this at home in a dark room, and believe me it is still terrifying that way, thankfully I had the privilege of pausing because at certain scenes I just needed to collect myself
This movie excels at subverting the audience's expectations with anticipa.......... There are numerous interpretations as to what is happening. My interpretation (based on face value, not metaphors or allegories) is an entity abducts the children and brings them into a pocket dimension where the entity "plays" with them (tormenting, scaring, etc....) until it gets board and kills them. I think the cartoons are a visual representation of what the entity is capable of, or explains certain parts like when the cartoon shows the 2 kids floating up into the air. I interpreted that as the kids being abducted and brought into the demons pocket dimension. Likewise when the cartoon shows the rabbit disappearing, then the cartoon rewinds itself. I thought that communicated that the demon can vanish and appear at will, and can even rewind time to repeat actions. I think this is shown when, towards the end, we see a large splash of blood spray on the floor, then it rewinds and disappears. I think that scene in particular is the demon finally killing Kaylee over and over and over. I think the demon decapitates her, based on the various pictures of Kaylee being seem with no head leading up to the blood splatter. There are also various metaphors we can see represented in the film. One of the most apparent is the horrors of neglect through drug addicted parents. I think that it could be said that one, or both, parents are addicts and that is why the children are alone so often. The mother could have even died of an overdose and the father has trouble coping with her death. There could also be an interpretation of everything happening after Kevin falls down the stairs explained as Kevin is actually in a coma brought on by the fall. In this interpretation we are seeing the surrealistic coma dream that Kevin is trapped in for 572 days until Kevin either wakes or dies.
This video made me like Skinamarink more because of the way you focused on the sound design. I think the reason they made the shots so long and dreary is because of the “572 days” and the fact that time keeps looping. It depicts how being trapped in the house felt like eternity.
Thanks, Grizz! 😱 I enjoyed this experiment... but it's not my preferred sort of horror. #GrizzledWizard #KyleEdwardBall #Skinamarink #Spooktober #SpookySeason #Halloween
Well I definitely wouldn't wanna turn this one on at 3 a.m. when the room's dark but I can't sleep. Definitely feels like one of those nightmares you can't wake up from.
Same name and same age.. I was 7 in 1995 and this house looked like my grandmas house that I spent a lot of time in that was VERY haunted…. I have seen multiple ghosts there and I hated walking down the hallway at any time of day/night…
This movie was so terrifying I had to hold my fist over my phone screen just so I can see your face instead of the movie and the terrifying shit happening.
A interesting theory I saw this film interpreted was the children being trapped/collected by some child like entity that is playing with them like toys. Like the repeated bleeding scene did you ever as a kid just keep smash and braking toys together and figuratively killing them in your pretend playing or even literally breaking and putting them back together over and over again? And the long pull out shot was like the liminal ‘toy chest’ of this entity where it kept them when it wasn’t actively playing with them.
I love how you got confused and thought they were trying to disorient you (what is the floor? what is the ceiling/wall?) when in actuality, there were items floating on the wall and ceiling
I haven't watched this movie yet because I couldn't even get through the first three minutes do to the familiarity of the discomfort and dread reminding me of childhood abuse. Someone on Letterboxd mentioned that you can also draw a conclusion that the movie is about childhood trauma and honestly that has stuck with me the entire time, as I couldn't even get through five minutes without being sucked back into the childhood I grew up in. Liminal spaces, dark rooms, scary open closets, leaving the TV on and watching the door to my bedroom to see if it would open, etc. It is such an unsettling movie, and one day I hope to be able to watch it in its entirety. But as someone who loves horror and hasn't been scared of a single one up until Nope came out... the fact that this movie is so psychologically invasive and dreadful is INCREDIBLE.
Since I'm hard of hearing, I'm glad I didn't bother watching this in theaters. There would be absolutely no way I could follow the narrative with all those whispered dialog. All of it was unintelligible to me. I relied 100% on the subtitles to even know that a character was speaking. That said, I found the second and third acts of the movie to be very unnerving. The first third was a bit of a slog, and I found myself zoning out on parts. At one point, I contemplated just moving on to something else. However, things took a turn for the better worst when Kaylee was called to the bedroom. Her parents sitting motionless on the bed, and her dad telling her to look under the bed... It stirred a primal fear in me. I think this is something I can only appreciate at home, alone in the dark. I did ultimately enjoy it in the end, but I doubt I'd rewatch it in the future. I definitely would not have the patience for it in the theaters.
