Skinamarink (2023)
Directed by Kyle Edward Ball
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.
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What critics compared Skinamarink to
Shots of a TV set’s glare illuminating children’s toys recall images from Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, while mysterious POV shots bring to mind practically every slasher movie ever made.
Ball cites Chantal Akerman as one of his inspirations so imagine if she decided to deconstruct and reassemble “Poltergeist” (1982), “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) and Mark Z Danielewski’s first novel, “House of Leaves” without any adults or explanations.
Undertone is Pontypool, Skinamarink and Sinister for an age of podcasts, ASMR and Creepypasta.
It often feels like it’s trying to combine the existential dread of Skinamarink with the unholy parental angst of Hereditary, but it all just feels too clean, too well produced, too reliant on tired genre trappings, to fully give into the cosmic horror it merely hints at.
One might go into “Undertone” expecting something as cold and alienating as “Skinamarink.”
Unlike Skinamarink (2022), which has little to offer hardcore horror fans, Tuason’s movie builds the tension deliberately, with an acute attention to detail that pays off the closer one looks and listens.
The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity, and Skinamarink are just a few of the motion pictures that implore audiences to look closely at the edge of any given frame.
Some viewers have compared undertone to the experimental horror film Skinamarink, a bizarre fever dream that used blurry imagery, diminished lighting, and unsettling sound design to capture a child’s fear of being alone at night.
Backrooms has been linked with the likes of Exit 8, Skinamarink, and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair as examples of Internet-inspired, liminal-space horror…
Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink has proven a harbinger of the 2020s horror cinema scene…
At one end of the spectrum lies the story-absent Skinamarink while the other champions the absurdist Being John Malkovich, each leaning into their own brands of madness experiencing in-between spaces.
A movie like Skinamarink didn’t work for me because I needed more of an actual plot.
Like "Skinamarink" before it, "Backrooms" may not entirely live up to the impossible hype surrounding it for everyone.
…where my Skinamarink heads at?!?