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Skinamarink (2023)
Directed by Kyle Edward Ball
Twitter Facebook Google+Horror | Mystery | Experimental
Most recently watched by sleestakk
Overview
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
Rated NR | Length 100 minutes
Actors
Lucas Paul | Dali Rose Tetreault | Ross Paul | Jaime Hill | Kyle Edward Ball
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/13/2023 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Went into this completely cold and the experience was better for it. Amazing that this got played at a suburban mall AMC! This AMC has old-style less comfortable seats but they still have their auto masking system which is aces! All AMCs should bring back auto masking.
The film itself feels like a children’s nightmarish fever dream where there’s something unsettling going on but you’re just not quite sure what it is. The only thing that’d make this experience better is if you stumbled across it on a late night cable channel after coming home from a party at 2am.
The sound design does a lot to enhance the experience as there’s no soundtrack; only sound from old cartoons emanating from a CRT TV and ambient and incidental noise from the goings on in the house, which are mostly muted. The kids’ voices are nicely muted and sometimes indecipherable, made intelligible via burned in subtitles which strangely didn’t feel out of place.
I could have watched a day’s worth of this but it also could have been tightened up and probably better for it overall.
I also love that they played the trailer for ENYS MEN beforehand. While vastly different from this, it still shares a lot in common in that it’s not a straightforward plot driven film.
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