It took me back in time to when I was a little kid too short to reach the light switch waking up from a nightmare and the slow scary walk to my parents' bedroom and the dread of wondering if I just saw something move in the dark.
The best way I can describe Skinamarink is that it’s one of those movies that’s a lot more fun to talk about it and what it means, than to actually watch it.
The way the Skina tortured its victims over the years reminded me of the AM supercomputer from I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream that could alter reality to torture humans for thousands of years. Now thinking about it, this seems like a prequel to the book.
@@lordpuller2226 no way you just said that! A RU-vidr.... Wendigoon...reviewed this movie and mentioned I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream! And I researched it and know about AM and what it does. It's some scary crap!
Thanks for showing more video and audio of this movie than most other reviews I have seen. Makes a big difference, even if you are flirting with copyright claims. Really appreciate iate it, Mr. Shado.
I really loved this film. I was a child about the same age as Kaylee in 1995. To me, this film felt incredibly nostalgic. It reminded me of the fear I felt as a kid waking up at night, alone, my parents asleep or away from home. The weird shapes I would see in the darkness after waking from a nightmare. The confusion I would feel for simply not being old enough to understand what was happening around me. Skinamarink felt as if someone took my old memories from childhood and made them into a horror film.
My main problem with this film is how quiet it is and the gentle buzz/record scratching lulls me to sleep ONLY TO THEN HIT ME WITH A LOUD, EAR PIERCING NOISE!
This film reminds me of me and my siblings would stay past midnight, especially if were not supposed to be awake, and we start being paranoid of things we see or hear in the dark.
I think this film can best be summed up as horror ASMR. Credit for doing something VERY different. I can see this being examined by film lovers from an artistic, experimental standpoint. But you were right, this asks A LOT of the viewer. I can see future directors taking aspects of what works in this, and polishing what doesn't for a mainstream audience.
I've never had a movie that left me feeling like the jumpscare was gonna come after the movie just ended. If you stare at the face at the end for the whole scene, when "The End" pops up, you'll see the face everywhere you look because it just burned into your eyes. Never experienced an atmosphere like Skinamarink's. Genius film.
The closeness to the tv in a time of fear harkens back to an age when mankind truly feared the dark and had nothing but the fire to keep it at bay. That's a nice touch.
The moment "freaky deaky" just puts leaving through his own death over and over and over again was the most horrifying for me ( the scene with the blood on the roof coming and going) Atleast that's my interpretation of the scene. I feel the whole film is about Kevin in limbo after he died from his head injury.
The blood is on the floor, the house is flipped upside down. It is shot as if it’s on the ceiling but the blood splatter is actually on the floor not the ceiling.
I'm about the same. This reminded me a lot of creepy RU-vid from back in the day, or those "watch this from the "Dark Web"" stuff that came out when RU-vid was 1st starting.
I was talking about it with a friend, and I described it as "Divisive but in the good way, like '77 Suspiria." Not exactly in the way someone would assume, from that description, but like... It is very much Doing A Thing. You may or may not like the Thing it's doing, and if you don't that's valid. Most people won't, and it knows that. But it sure commits all to heck to the Thing it's doing and even if it's not *your* thing, you kinda gotta respect its commitment, yano? It is exactly what it wants to be. That takes some guts these days, to not care who it alienates, chasing its goal. It's gonna be a cult classic in ten years. That cult will be small but very intense.
As someone who has a fear of the dark related to childhood trauma and was afraid of my house at night, this movie was indeed a bit long, but it left me feeling uncomfortable. It was a strange sensation like a crushing cold dread and a weight in my chest. It brought me back to the moment when I stared down the long dark hallway in my childhood home knowing that there was something watching me in the shadows as a child while I decided if I should run or walk as quietly as possible to my room to hide under the blankets. In the end, it's either going to be a good experience that'll remind you of childhood fears or you'll hate it and find it silly and dull. There's no in-between honestly.
I NEEDED this review!! I finally rented and watched this movie today. I either love or hate this movie but I’m not sure which one. It felt like it took 8 hours to get to anything but at the same time I didn’t want to blink. I had the volume turned up to a ridiculous amount and still struggled with a couple points. With a couple tweaks I think this would have been absolutely horrific. I just wanted a little more of the last half hour and a little less of the build up because too much build up left me falling asleep in my chair a couple times. Luckily Amazon comes with a rewind button. I’ll absolutely watch it again and I’m excited to see more stuff from the creators.
Great to have you back. With the best timing to as usual. Time to kick back turn the lights off and enjoy another Decker review. Ps. Thank you again for taking the time for the proper captions.
Fortunately it wasn't nearly as hard for this one - Jurassic World: Dominion took like 5 hours to caption, because the auto-transcription "Kept. Making. Every. Single. Word. A. Sentence." The hardest part to fix in the auto-transcriptions for Skinamarink was that it kept thinking the movie's name was something like "Cinema rank" and couldn't figure out if it was Kaylee or Caylee.
@@DeckerShado ahh the wonder of technology, making our lives easier. Its selfish I know but I so glad that they allow me to keep enjoying your videos as time goes on. It the personal care you put in that has stood out for me. Thank you again for the many hours. Of help youve put up on youtube for us.
I went into this film knowing the premise and nothing else. The theater it was playing in was completely empty except for myself and this really ratcheted up the horror for me. The way we're never allowed to get a good look at anything, the film grain distorting ordinary objects into sinister presences, the crispy audio quality, it all lends to the overall atmosphere and it is horrific. Overall, the fact a film this avant-garde played in fucking AMC Theaters is amazing. A true win for indie horror. I cannot recommend this enough.
I'd like to thank you for the work you do. I've learned a lot about how movies are made and how effects are done from you (and several other RU-vidrs). Because of that, I landed a dream side gig building sets and practical effects for a low budget horror film. Thanks for spreading knowledge in an entertaining fashion.
Thank you for that intro, you popping onscreen after that "dad" got a full on belly laugh out of me. Thank you for continuing to do what you do my good man.
I heard interesting interpretation of this. The movie is form kids perspective. Kid falls down the stairs and rest is in his head as he's in coma. The disappearing things/faces are related to his mind going. The blood is his surgery. After 500 days he passes away (going to sleep). This fits all the wierd things.. and makes the story even far more disturbing...
This movie fucked me up. For me, it made me think about what dying must be like. To have your soul/consciousness slowly drift off into oblivion all while being terrorized by an entity that could be construed as death itself or an entity of a similar nature but one that feeds off the souls it takes. And the longer it feeds the less of you exists. And in the end, that last little piece of you is told to "go to sleep" as you finally fade out into oblivion. Totally aware you are slowly blinking out of existence. Fuckin terrifying
I've heard some people comparing this to the Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. As far as being done on a shoe string budget but still has a lot of people talking about it.
So excellently reviewed, as usual! And I will definitely take your recommendation and will try again with a coffee, headphones and no lights. 😁But no matter what, I am absolutely in support of the experimentation and the creativity, and I definitely want more art to make its way back into the corporatized film industry. People say all the time they want something different, but when it comes along, many are so quick to ridicule it and stone it, which just enforces more of the same and spotlights how trained we've become to hate films that depart from the formula.
The director also has a RU-vid channel that he does short horror films on like this. If you like his other stuff, you'll enjoy skinamarink as well. Can't remember the name of his channel at the moment though
This reminded me of the several nights I spent as a child either being unable to fall asleep or waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare or just because something made a loud enough noise. And the long terrifying forever purgatory of being in the darkness in limited light from a TV or a night light. And how the night makes the house far more terrifying, with all the noises from outside or inside you normally don't pay attention to during the day becoming increasingly noticeable. You don't know what's around you, and fuck if something actually does start moving. And as a child there is no concept of time. So you are just waiting and waiting and waiting for you to finally fall asleep or that the sun comes up and your parents are walking around.
I watched this movie alone in a lit room during the day, giving it my undivided attention. It... really fucked with me for a solid week or so. I've been watching your reviews for almost ten years now, and it was therapeutic to hear you talk over the movie
I remember that there were a few times, as a child, when my parents were delayed in coming home. My and my brother's imagination tended to get a little...out of control. This film captured that old fear.
I appreciate weird and different horror films. Being alone in darkness has an incredible effect on the mind. And this tapped into a disturbing sense if you just let it be
Watched this in the cinema and loved it, was the most tense I've been over a horror film in a long time, though there was a guy snoring through part of it and someone watching (rightfully) stormed over to wake him up. In light of that gotta agree best way to watch it is alone in a dark room with no distractions
Definitely unique. I wouldn't say it should have been 10 minutes, but 70-80 minutes. I watched it as you described and it does add to the atmosphere, but it could have been cut down to maximize the suspense. I believe that our empathy with the children is one of the big reasons it's able to maintain the suspense for so long.
What Decker says at the start is 100%, you need to go into the movie with the intention to focus and enjoy what it will show you. Having watched it alone in my room with the lights off, it is one of the best horror movies I've seen all year. Other have said it, but it really takes you back to when you were a kid, how the dark seemed like this super scary place, how waking up in the night to go to the bathroom was a test of courage, on which every sound sounded like something otherworldly. Of course, in the case of the movie, things get really scary once you realize the kids are not imagining things, something really is out there to get them. Not many will like it, but I absolutely loved it.
This gave me Mandela Catalogue vibes Like how dark it was,let me brain to over think or see whats not really there. Can't but laugh at the toilet scene,that was just hilarious
This movie is the first I’ve ever seen to accurately describe my nighttime anxiety as both a child and even today. Staring at the dark corner of my room, getting up and walking through the dark abyss of the hallway at night and the odd random noises you hear at night. As a child and an adult, I’ve always found it difficult to articulate these feelings. It’s nice to know that I’m not alone and that i can help explain it to people with this movie.
I'm a guy who likes experimental movies. But I loathed this one. Experimental is cool. But it still needs to have things happen. This movie had nothing happening. I was mildly disturbed for the first 30 minutes and then realized it was gonna keep going like that for another 70... and my brain just stopped being scared. It's kinda like nightmares for me - if they seem to go on long enough I step back and say "well, I may as well go with this since it's not gonna hurt me".
This whole movie is like some kind of SCP. I mean, the disappearing parts of the house. The laws of reality being toyed with. All the build-up and mystery.
I initially avoided this when it came out but then I ended up not getting anymore notifications from you. I saw the Winnie the Pooh movie review and ran out of reviews to watch so here I am.. I'm going to be brutally freaked out the rest of the day.. I saw Wendigoons review and was disturbed the rest of my day
So I first watched this film the day it appeared on Shudder. A friend told me it was the most boring thing he'd ever seen and that literally nothing happens... Which oddly peaked my interest! And from the synopsis and the reviews barking on about how unique it was I decided to give it the benefit of a doubt. Bare in mind, I had no idea the kind of film it was and assumed it'd just look like a regular film and playout like a regular horror. After about 30 mins I couldn't take anymore and baled. The film played on my mind for a while after that though and I felt compelled to try again. The second time I found it a really compelling (and at times terrifying) experience because I went in with the right mindset and understood the kind of experience It's going for. It honestly felt like the kind of thing teenaged me would discover at 3am when I couldn't sleep. TV barely audible. I kinda appreciated that somehow! I think the expectation you go into this film with can really make or break the whole thing for you. And that we should appreciate unique films for daring to exist, even if we loathe them
Turn off all the lights in your room, put headphones on while keeping your eyes fixated on the screen and watch this movie. Instantly makes it scarier than it is. Get super baked to spice things up.
So, you need the atmosphere to match the aesthetic. I think that sums up the process intended when making the film. I think a lot of the poor reviews come from people who watched it in a loud raucous theater, this is definitely a 3am all alone type movie.
@@thesnailmail4259 Exactly! Movies hit Different depending on the atmosphere. I don't particularly like love stories, but having the girl you love right next to you somehow makes the movie hit your soft side.
I think if I saw this movie in a full theater, or even with a few others, I'd find it ambitious and creative, but somewhat dull. Since I saw it all by my lonesome, however, this was one of the most terrifying experiences I felt in a movie theater. I think the most chilling part for me was the semi-human, heavily distorted voice. That shit just fucks with me for reasons I don't fully know (beyond the obvious)
Finally wathcin the movie after seeing this review and ejecting this from my memory to watch blindly... that ending sort of hit a nerve when I was in the cancer ward and was late at night, in pain and on morphine to the point i was swearing up and down i saw a figure in shadows (there was light in my room for vision) and I was talking to it and it would stare.
Thanks for the review, the way you did it was probably the best you could have. I would never watch this, the audio would just irritate me and I turn it off and do something else in probably a few min.s. I can't stand that overly quite, then way to loud, mic popping and all that.
I thought that the name of the movie looked familiar Then he said it and now I have that damn song stuck in my head...... Skidamarink a dink a dink, skidamarink a doo, I love you. Skidamarink a dink a dink, skidamarink a doo,I love you. I love you in the morning, and in the afternoon. I love you in the evening, and underneath the moon. Oh, skidamarink a dink a dink, skidamarink a doo, I love you. You're welcome.
I watched this alone, in the dark, with headphones, at night. I get what everybody is saying about the darkness and the unknown and just the bizarre horror of being in a nightmare. That being said, this movie just didn't land for me. I watched it with a totally open mind. I get it... I just wasn't scared or unsettled at any point.
As others pointed out - *definitely* overly long compared to the content within it, and it's one of the few movies I've honestly fallen asleep during on the first watch. If it were about 45 minutes long instead, I probably wouldn't have - but that might also have drained some suspense from it, I'll admit. And kudos for actually trying to tackle this thing!
Another great vid as always, I apprecaite the work you put into your channel. You've put me on alot of movies that I othersie would miss, especially since I am not a horror fan. I also want to ask, do you remember, last year, when your necie was selling scout cookies? Is that still a thing, I'd like to order some.
So we're getting a movie review by weird al Yankovic. I'm more frightened about those unattended unpicked up Legos especially lying strewn about in the dark. My barefeet are already hurting. This is a great 👍 movie nonetheless.
I watched something a little while ago that suggested this was Kevin's mind whilst hospitalised from the fall and the coma he was in. Going to sleep is Kevin passing away from his injuries having endured multiple operations that failed to save him. I've not seen the film myself yet so, merely passing along someone elses opinion/thoughts.
I believe this still cannot top that long lasting "wtf" effect of Eraserhead. Seriously, it took me at least 3 days to return back to normal, and enjoy life again 😂😂
How did Decker synced my baby crying with the silence left on a scene, i don’t know but those nappies are not the only ones that need changing now. Cheers
Algorithm chose your review of the new Jurassic World movie. And what the hell is up with the algorithm constantly pushing nastalga critic videos after Decker's videos when I keep telling RU-vid I'm not interested in his content.
I REALLY want to like this movie, but the length made it a chore to watch. That being said, I hope more movies like it get made, because we could really use some more fresh ideas in the horror genre.
You actually have good videos that review a lot of good films. Some films I like, other films, not so much but I'm just being honest so please don't take that personally. But I'd love to know what do you put in your hair that makes it so gorgeous? If that's how your hair looks naturally, then you are blessed.
I wonder if our focus would be held more fully if Robbie Coltrane disguised as a nun appeared in the movie. Like in 'Nuns on the Run' (1990). Sadly we shall never know. The horror...
You know what is unique and unsettling the shit I just took after eating Taco Bell . Doesn’t mean I’m going to make an hour and a half movie about it floating .
There's a pretty good middle-ground between 10 minutes and 100. They could've shortened it to a good 45, even 60 minutes and it would've been acceptable.
think the purpose of the film grain is to simulate how we actually see in extremely low light. I mean, I at least thats how I see when its really dark and my eyes have adjusted to the near blackness
