Ever since the film leaked late last year, pirated copies of 'Skinamarink' have been passed around as the latest viral phenomenon, arriving in inboxes with warnings that you’re about to see “the scariest movie ever made.”
The most comforting, familiar places look different in the dark. Even your childhood bedroom can seem sinister after the lights go out. This might be an obvious observation, but it’s one from which filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball has mined a richly evocative sense of unease in the indie horror sensation “.” This microbudget, experimental effort has captured the imaginations of TikTokers and Redditors ever since it accidentally leaked from a film festival’s home screening platform late last year.
Maybe that’s overselling it a bit. But “Skinamarink” is indeed terrifying, and what’s exciting is that it’s scary in ways we aren’t used to seeing at the movies. This an immersive experience, at times more akin to installation art than an actual narrative feature. The story — so much that there is one — is about two small children waking up in the middle of the night to find their parents have disappeared. As have the doors and all the windows.
Every decade or so, one of these underground horror movies punches through to the mainstream. I’ll never forget when, shortly after Sundance back in 1999, a pal mailed me a VHS tape with no explanation, just a cryptic label that said “The Blair Witch Project.” Watching that movie totally cold — after midnight in a basement rec room with a noisy furnace — was one of the most frightening viewing experiences of my life.
I also fondly recall the first local screening of “Paranormal Activity.” Paramount Pictures had purchased the festival favorite and was testing the waters for a wide release with a run of late-night weekend shows in major markets. I was sitting in the AMC Boston Common struggling to stay awake while a rather large and imposing gentleman seated behind us was having the wits scared out of him.
This rudderlessness does, however, make you really feel the film's 100-minute running time, and I’m pretty sure a shorter “Skinamarink” would be a more effective one. But I’m even more sure that your feelings about the film will depend mostly on the conditions under which it’s viewed.
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