The Nostalgic Nightmare of Skinamarink 

Someone wrote an incredible review on Letterboxd and all I can think about is that--personally, in my opinion-- it gives off not just the eeriness of being a child and being afraid of the dark - but also within the first five minutes, the sense of dread that gave off the feeling of childhood abuse. It was so familiar, and dragged me back to those memories, and I haven't watched the movie for longer than five minutes since I first tried...

I've never experienced something quite like my reaction to this movie. It's love/hate. It was really boring for most of my first watch. But I was intrigued. And I'm fascinated by it more and more after the fact. The atmosphere is so unique. It does capture a nostalgic, dreamlike (nightmarish) feeling. I love the theories of what the actual plot may be. It is very flawed as a movie of course. I think somewhere in that bloated run time is a shorter edit of something much more effective. Still as it stands I think it's an instant classic.

“I fear not the dark itself, but what may lurk within it.”

okay so i just threw my food at the monitor when the phone ringed

I tried to watch this with my family. My mom is a kindergarten teacher who works with a lot of kids at Kevin & Kaylee’s age. The second we heard Kevin’s agonized cries from stabbing himself, she broke down and left. I kinda forgot how sensitive to that she was, especially because we’ve watched The Shining and other great horror films. The fact it got her like that, while most movies put her to sleep, shows how effective the film is. Edit: She didn’t even want to finish it. She asked me (because I watched it first) if it at least had a happy ending. I said no. She said this film was truly cruel and evil.

Wow this is criminally underrated. Impeccable analysis of the film as well as your interpretation of the movie.

Excellent job on the video!!!

10:44 center-top, is that a face poking out of the darkness or am I seeing things? looks like a nose, and from there a head is in view for a brief second before retreating back into the darkness.

This movie is an underrated banger.

why is this somewhat scary but also comforting

IN THIS HOUSE...

I personally got so disturbed by this movie, personally. I felt so much suspense so much dread and so much tension. I just really was caught off guard by this movie and I just was so impressed by it!! I’m glad this movie got made as I both highly enjoy it and appreciate it too! It’s super unsettling and it can be interpreted in any way. Is this a nightmare, is there actually a demon taking over two children and torturing them, or is it just a metaphorical and trippy thriller about child abuse and neglect. The ambiguity is what makes me frightened. I felt so helpless watching this movie that I sometimes wanted to stop watching it. The sounds also added to it and made it creepy as it just made me jump and imagine creepy things in my head and that made it all the more worse. Bravo, Mr. Ball!!

"When it's the day, you feel right at home. But when it's night, you start to realize it's not your home, it's just a house." "And eventually, it'll belong to someone else's soon. Just not today."

That telephone jumpscare that came out of nowhere 😪

Do you remember rooms changing as a kid? Of course it's done by a child's imagination, but this film is the closest I've come to it since.

dude, i found this on reddit while i was trying to find something to watch while i drew. Clicked on this, watched it, expected to see it had at least 20k views, and saw it had 658?? You are severely underrated, your editing, style of writing, and mic quality are very professional. Keep up the good work, man, you're gonna blow up one day and people are gonna have a great backlog to work through.

I was genuinely scared of this movie. Like what you explained, I felt like I was just as helpless as the kids, I felt like a child, I didn’t know what was about to happen and I couldn’t do anything about it. When I first watched it I tried watching it with my dad but he walked out 5 minutes into the movie saying “it’s boring”. I understand, but that really frustrated me with how quickly he walked out.

Im so glad people is starting to get this movie and how good it is

I had a terrible fear of the dark as a child up until high school. Its been more than 20 years and this movie absolutely transported me back to that same familiar feeling. I was not ready for that.

Dude why don’t you have more subscribers your content is perfection

as a schizophrenic, this film feels like… the essence of it in a film. it’s the feeling of ‘did i see something?’ ‘what did i just hear?’ ‘was that something?’ ‘is that real or not?’ and while it certainly hasn’t helped my hallucinations (keep seeing fisher price phones), it is a very good film!! very evocative!!

I bought this movie a couple of weeks ago. Saw it with a group of friends. We turn it off at 2AM terrified when the voice said “Kaylee” the same name of one of my friend’s girlfriend.

7:34 jesus i had a fucking heart attack

When you realize the skinamarink demon is made of the same evil than the hotel in Shinning

Amazing video, best analisis of the movie. When I was a kid, I suffer a terrible night with high fever. My mom stay in the room to take care of me, suddenly, in the middle of the night, I hear a voice asking me to play with my hot wheels, or else my mom will die. It was a nonsense fever alucination but in that moment I stand up, crying and start playing with my toys in the dark. My mom just ask me to sleep again and she didnt really think about why I was doing that. During the covid days I had fever alucinations again. Even if that was a more recent experience I barely remember that night. But that terrible night as a kid keeps in my mind and this movie transport me directly to that.

Ah yes, 395 subs? I say not long anymore😁. Really liked the Video.

What's the background music started at the 2:00 mark in the video? It's so beautiful

Great video! How am I like, the only one who watched?

As a fan of horror for years, especially thoughtful, slow burn horror, I can't believe how bored I was by this film. The trailer was fantastic, the look and feel of it is excellent, but I just didn't enjoy it at all. It's right up my alley, but man I was bored the whole time. That being said, this video was fascinating, and your take on all this made me rethink a lot of this film. You may not see this comment a full year after this video was made, but I hope that you do, because you managed to pull off something incredible - you made something excellent out of something I found terrible. Great job, seriously great work

man, i’m so glad this video exists. you deserve way more views!

I like that a low budget indie film got recognition and success, but unfortunately, for me it was 100 minutes of nothing, it was too long for what it is, it didn’t feel like a nightmare to me, I don’t remember my childhood nightmares having film noise, and it didn’t even live up to its reputation as an experimental film, because it kept leaning on cheap jump scares, I guess creative scares require talent and effort 🤷🏼‍♂️

Good evening.