SKINAMARINK (2022) Explained
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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In the viral hit Skinamarink, we follow a pair of siblings who 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. We're explaining just what the deal is with the movie, breaking down the story, and explaining the ending and what it all means.
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When skinamarink said “it’s skinamarinking time” and proceeded to skinamarink all over the family was the most skinamarinky part of skinamarink.
Yeah, pretty awesome ngl
That just sounds dirty. "Daddy! He's skinamarinking all over my face, neck, and chest and I can't stop him!"
Same. I cried Skinamarink tears.
You're not clever.
The joke is so old now man come up w smth else
It definitely nailed the feel of 'dream logic' and several motifs from my childhood nightmares:
- toys moving on their own (for me this was always disturbing)
- missing parents
- blinding light from the TV
- deformed faces/bodies (of me or my siblings)
- searching for the monster effectively summons them (distractions like TV and toys can temporarily keep it at bay)
For me, it's the grainy look of almost darkness. It really looks like bad film when you're straining to see in your dark room, or down the hallway. It plays a lot of tricks on your mind.
I was wondering if a lot of the motifs came from the writer's childhood, now I think a lot of people have felt or experienced these things as children. One thing that terrified me was seeing things on the screen that looked like they were moving in the dark, especially when I wasn't looking directly at them, but when looking closely, not being able tell whether they were actually moving or just artifacts of the graininess. This is similar to things at night or in the dark for me at times.
@@Geospasmic I sorta always see static especially when it's dark and it definitely makes hallucinations extremely pronounced and as a kid walking up the stairs and down the dark hallway was scary asf because I always thought there was something there and I sorta also had like hearing hallucinations like banging on the walls or hearing things like whispering etc and yeah its sorta scary
Trash
""Deformed faces/bodies (of me and my siblings)"
This one really gets to me to think about having in one's nightmares... especially as a child
My dad's theory is that it was a metaphor for abuse.
The high camera shots show how out of reach everything is, the closed off windows and doors show there is no escape. etc it was a good movie and made me feel that fear of being a kid in a dark house. I def felt the despair
Honestly, with the 911 call scene, that could absolutely be true, and opens up a whole new can of worms for this film. Chills :(
It’s the mom that was the abuser everything it showed and how the mom is the monster and why the dad has the kids shows everything and being a kid who was abused by my dad he would always say shit like I do this cause I love you when he would hit me and police not being able to do a thing cause how could they if there’s no proof or people usually disregard kids but the I don’t wanna talk about mom line is kind a give away for me
my theory was that the dad killed the family, and we were just seeing the ghostly echoes of the crime from years back, now in an empty abandoned house
@@weepo2651 I’m so sorry you went through that. Some people are just not fit to be parents. I hope you are doing well now. ❤
I'd say more allegory since this doesn't seem like a "it was all a dream" kind of story, rather true eldritch-esque horror, but he's definitely right. "timmy fell down the stairs again", "I cut myself with the knife" only finding comfort in the TV, which pauses when the entity wants something from you, etc.
Best description of experiencing this film is that it's the kinda film you watch thinking "Hmm, this isn't that scary at all!", and then go to bed later and realise you're about to have the worst night's sleep of your life.
this is literally what happened to me after watching. I didn’t find it very scary but then as soon as I went to bed that night, I started thinking harder about it and felt a little scared to go to sleep 😭
Yall need to do some manly activities😂
@@dboyfly24 Anything is manly if you're man enough
@@Bakedcakeyyy what
@@dboyfly24look at your name just look you really think u have any room to talk lmao stfu kid
What makes it so sad is how utterly screwed the kids were no matter what. They were powerless.
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@CringeGamingOG just like the children in real life. Majority of the children(especially in Asia continents) feel absolutely powerless under the narcissistic and abusive parents or caretakers. It's extremely common in real life. I was raised up under one and I know many who have as well. This whole planet is not a holy place for children to be in .
As a kid whenever I’d leave my room at night to go to my parents room, there was always one spot I was scared of walking by. Sometimes I’d stare at it, because of how just dark it was, and I would convince myself I would see shapes and movements and would scare the shit out of myself. This movie is terrifying in the sense of reliving those moments in childhood when the dark was the scariest thing there was.
There’s a dark spot in my back yard in between my fence and my tool shed, but if the moon is bright it can show just enough light to where it looks like there’s someone standing with their back facing me, never moving. I didn’t want to look away for fear that they’d start moving as soon as I did.
This drew out two primal fears for me. The fear felt as a child when the dark of your own room was enough to make you cry out for your mother. And the fear of a parent who loses sight of their child even for a moment. This one was too much for me.
the first nightmare I ever remember having as a kid involved being alone in my completely dark house and fumbling through the hall to see my tricycle at the other end of the hallway slowly moving on it's own towards me. I never forgot it, and apparently it's a common theme in childrens' nightmares
Nah
Trash movie to much for you? Scared of the dark huh
@@reggielacey2235 can you kids lighten up
@@magzdilluh It is, i had them A LOT. Even at 31 years old i still get variations on them on rare occasions. Very unsettling. I ALSO hate the ones where ur in ur childhood home, but somethings just OFF, about the surroundings, ur family…something just ISN’T right! But then slowly it becomes more and more obvious until sometimes its as tho ur in the twilight zone or something. Then u wake up and find urself searching the house and making sure everything is as it should be before u dare start the day. Lol
Catching the last show at the theater really was an amazing coincidence bc after the movie ended the screen went black and the light didn’t come on, we sat there in the dark theater wondering if it was part of the show or not and it also made it seem the darkness from the movie broke the 4th wall into the theater
omg I just saw it tonight and my friends and I were the only 3 in there wondering why tf the lights didn’t turn on 😭
this comment alone makes me want to see it in a theater, holy shit i can't imagine how scary that would feel.
@@hunterhardie3355 don't bother it's trash
Trash
@@reggielacey2235 you having bad taste doesn't mean the movie is bad. Maybe you need bright lights and shiny objects to keep your attention like a shiftless child but any adult should be able to appreciate what this movie is doing if they like horror.
The director captured the feeling of being a child and afraid of the dark even when there’s nothing there.
Trash
And that moment when you go to your parents, and they sit motionless and turned away from each other and ask to look under the bed ... stop. Everyone had it, right?
that makes sense UNTIL THE 572 DAYS THING. very specific so tf
Bunch of garbage waiting for a payoff that never arrived in an overly long movie that only pretentious abstractionists who find deep meaning in paint spatters would find interesting
Anyone could make this movie. No talent.
I read some where that it’s about the kids dealing with their parents divorce, their toys being split between their parents houses, them not knowing the layout of the new houses so the doors and windows keep disappearing. I don’t really remember it all but it really made sense. Another one i saw was the kids were stuck in hell looping forever so it is really all up for interpretation I guess.
I like this theory, and I think to flesh it out it might be divorce coupled with the mother finding someone new who is an abuser, and becoming a "new person" who is deliberately blind to this demon that is abusing the children. The circumstances around the divorce would explain why the older sister doesn't want the brother to talk about it. It would also explain the motif if the dad not being there and disappearing after a certain point.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention this in the video actually, the scene with the mother and what she is saying, Divorce was the first thing my mind came too, im also a single dad though so could be why i took it this way
It's about divorce.
Lame.
The idea of them being in hell is also kinda iffy though. You'd think two innocent-aged kids would be the last demographic who would win a ticket to the land of the man downstairs.
The “Kevin is in a coma and everything you see is he slipping away”theory is a good one….until you see the thing that’s in the house staring at you in the end then I’m like “Yea that house is haunted as F”.
Reality is fake can be used to explain anything
When it shows the one camera shot of the outside of the house you can clearly see it's situated in a dimensional void. Seems the entity really could do anything
And us getting Kaylee's POV
Whoever says “it’s a dream or a coma” is terminally boring
@@rofflesvanwagon And I think you hear the dads voice say "theres something in the house". I think "it" picked each family member off one by one and its staring at us like we are the next tenents of the house. Yikes...
I had severe, unexplained, night terrors as a child, and really bad sleep paralysis till my teens. I made the mistake of watching it alone, and got to about about a quarter of the way through before dipping, it felt like all my childhood sleep bullshit turned up to eleven. The hazy nightmare logic and uneasy atmosphere was just too similar to my remembered experience.
Same. I don't think I can watch it all the way alone. I'd be sleepless for days.
Yes ... I notice that the people who were affected by this movie and therefore get it the most are people who have struggled with bad nightmares from childhood and even adulthood or sleep paralysis and all. I'm one of them and this movie screwed me up for a week or so.
dude same. I just turned it off and came here 😦
When I was around four or five, I was sure there was something under my bed at night. I would lay there in fear of the darkness under the bed, which the night light couldn't reach. One night, for some reason I decided to fight the monster, I started screaming and crawled under the bed kicking, punching and biting at the darkness. My mum and dad came running in, pulled me out from under the bed and calming me down from night terrors.
For years I still had night terrors, sleep paralysis, flying projection dreams where monsters or demons were chasing me but ever since that one night, I would fight the nightmare and wake up with my heart racing. I also had an NDE as a teenager, forced my way back from a black void that was taking me downwards. My sleep paralysis had become pretty rare by this point, stopped after my near death experience all together.
I'm an atheist, however I entertain the idea of the supernatural for fun hypotheticals. Either way fear is the enemy, don't let it control you.
@@8darktraveler8 Hey man I'm glad my experience resonated with you enough that you could share your own. I've been in therapy for like 16 ish years, so I can say with my whole chest that not watching something that was visually identical to that time in my childhood is part of not letting the fear control me. Had I pushed through, trying to prove something to myself while alone, I would've been putting myself into a unnecessarily harmful situation.
I'm very thankful that you have been able to move past that difficult time in your life, and taken control as you see fit. I am doing the same by not actively engaging in content that I know for a fact would have triggered a full blown episode in me.
Here's to living our lives to the fullest 🥰
For me, this movie feels like having a nightmare, like, that disconnected logic that is so unsettling yet so real for those trapped in it. It reminded me of a nightmare I had as a child, the same feeling of dread and fear of what is lurking just outside of your door frame.
For me, it was a nightmare of my dad running into my room, scared, begging me to close my eyes and not open it, no matter what I hear, and having to be perfectly still, while something walked into the room. I didn’t know what it was, it didn’t speak or made any noise, but I KNEW it was there, watching, just waiting for me to make a sound, waiting for me to be curious enough to just take a peek, it only needed a peek.
It lurked there for what it felt like an eternity, I never saw it, never heard it, I didn’t know what it was or what it wanted.
The nightmare ended soon as I woke up…I had that nightmare back when I was 8, I’m 25 now and I still remember that palpable fear.
You nailed it. That was the director's intent.
My dreams always make sense during the act. Then, I wake up and realise that it was all nonsensical. But at that moment, it was the most sensical thing imaginable.
HOly shit I felt fear reading that and I am not easily scared. I also had awful nightmares as a child but they didn't that reach that level of event-building. They were just feeling of lack of safety translated into gibberish images and one scene I saw by accident in a movie in which a cat was killed, which to me at the time, was like a war exploding in my mind.
@@kennethguthrie180 Most dreams feel like that, well to me anyway. I keep dreaming of my dad still trying to teach me something, but he passed on New Year's Day.
Funny enough that is the specialty of the director. He has a channel called bite size nightmares and most of his short films are based on people's actual nightmares. He also has another film that became the inspiration for skinamarink. Check it out yourself, most of the comments shared are stories like yours...
That whole sense of walking around in your home at night, and barely being able to make things out. The feeling that everything is still the same, but feels "unfamiliar" and "different". Getting uneasy that you know you should be safe, but you don't feel safe...
This movie brilliantly captures that feeling.
No. It's trash.
@@reggielacey2235 girlieboo no one asked you
Watson Day... YES!
That doesn't sound scary in the slightest.
So, yeah, the movie captured that perfectly
I didn't think it was supernatural at all, but about abuse and how the kids are becoming more and more isolated. The movie is so loosely defined that I think many things can be right. If the kids aren't being abused, the mother definitely is.
100%
Abuse through the eyes of a 4 year old whose brain isn't fully formed yet and a warped view of reality due to this combined with trauma. That's how I saw it.
@@Tanstaafl_74 "through the eyes of a 4 year old whose brain isn't fully formed yet". You nailed it with that, so did the film makers if that's what they were going for. The vague placement of items, rooms and windows not quite where they should be, the intense single color lights drowning out everything else, and hyper fixating on a single unrelated object, is how all my very few memories from being that young are.
Yeah there was a video game with a similar concept. A toddler escapes his room and goes through a bunch of nightmare levels, with only his teddy bear that talks to him. In the end you learn the bear was from the dad and the voice is meant to represent the dad, and the ‘monster’ was the kids abusive mom. Feels similar here.
I actually think it's the mother that's the abuser. The kids spend the whole movie searching for their father implying he's the one they feel safe with and their mom hurts them.
I caught myself thinking there’s something in the dark but realizing there isn’t and then came to a conclusion that this movie makes you’re childhood fears comes back to you when you were in your room at night and that stool with clothes on it looked a lot like a dark figure sitting there watching you.
I've heard some people that have reviewed this movie say that they thought that they would never see a movie made on a shoestring budget get talked about like this. Some were comparing this to sort of like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity.
I too like Chris Stuckman!
I read a review where the guy kept linking it to Blair Witch and never once mentioned analog horror. You can see why old style newspaper critics aren't as popular as youtube ones anymore.
@@kingkelevra4545 congrats, what an achievement. u deserve a trophy 🎛️🏆
That was what made me go see it because when I heard it reviewed like that I was like okay so this is going to be great. I will say this I was never bored I didn't go to sleep I just kept waiting for something to happen. I never got scared, it didn't bring forth any childhood traumas for me so I could have skipped it.
Saying it’s like “The Blair Witch” is a stretch… that movie got in your head. While this movie just had really long shots….
The director mentioned himself that this is a Hansel and Gretel story. I believe it's an entity that was after Kevin and followed him out of his dream and into the house because Kaylee mentions that he sleep walks. It's always telling them to 'go to sleep' and 'wake up' through out the whole movie and things go worse for the family after they fall asleep.
What made it so creepy was the fact that the protagonists are innocent children. You want to protect them. This movie filled me with a feeling of horror and disgust.
I’m not gonna lie… even the little clip of the screaming when the blood shows up on the carpet sent chills through my body
My initial interpretation was that it was a nightmare Kevin was having and the red at the end was the insides of his eyelids when he woke up...... I like the coma theory as well.
Having been in a coma myself I can assure you that it's very much like the movie....no sense of time.... frightening images ... helpless feeling when you can't move but don't know why...
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Ah yes and there was a monster who wanted to royally fuck you up
@@Irish_Georgia_Girl How long were you in a coma for?
Watching this movie was definitely like being in a coma, that's a terrific review. All you need to know
The best theory of Skinamarink is that it focuses on the metaphorical experiences of a divorced family, which can cause abuse, lonliness, and unrequited fears that culminate in that being represented in the deterioration of the home, and the family slowly vanishing.
But you are wrong, because the meaning behind it all could be anything. This "film" wants me to play their open interpretation concept, and If I say all of you are wrong, then I'm right.
@@azhariarif that's childish.
@@walterwhite5060 no Im right. It's up to anyone's interpretation so you cannot refute me.
@@azhariarif If it's up to anyone's interpretation, an interpretation that refutes someone else's interpretation is wrong.
@@flaetsbnort no, an interpretation that refutes all other interpretations would be right, as well as all the interpretations it refutes
i think the most interesting aspect of movies like this is how extremely polarizing it is. personally, i found this film unbelievably terrifying and felt very personal with just how accurately it portrayed my childhood nightmares. i could barely even look at the stills from it in this video. it's hard for me to imagine how someone could be so bored that they left the theater entirely. i didn't even do that for morbius.
I can barely look at the stills either, lol. I'm glad I'm not alone.
@@OverdramaticAngel It's just PICTURES OF FUCKEN WALLS the hell is wrong with you people? Stop acting like this is profound.
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control I'm sorry my phobia is so upsetting to you.
@@OverdramaticAngel What kind of fucken idiot is afraid of slow-panning shots of walls?
Trash. Literally nothing happened
I was so sad throughout the whole movie. I just wanted to jump through the screen and save them the whole time. It was hard to watch for that reason but I really wanted to see how it ended.
this movie brought out a deep primal fear i havent felt in a long time, the idea of seeing things just not make sense, door disapearing, windows appearing out no nowhere, i've always had a fear of loseing my touch with reality and this relfected that fear at me heavily
I feel like a lot of the decisiveness of this film involves what the specific viewer is afraid of. Sure, the fear of the dark is strong in this one, but there's also something else. There's something that I personally called the "something is there trifecta". These are specifically: the fear of what is there, the fear of what isn't there, and lastly, what I believe is the most prevalent in this film, the fear of what COULD be there. this film has you searching around for long, dark shots straining your eyes to either hear if there's a whisper or look for something in the ever-present darkness. If you aren't very afraid of this stuff I could certainly see why you'd be bored out of your mind. Except for when the movie yells at you of course.
It plays on our ancient and most primal fear. The fear of the unknown. We don't know what it is or what's happening which causes us to jump at every little shadow
So essentially the fear of the mysterium
I think also how you watch this plays into it. Like are you alone in a dark room or watching this with friends in a lighted space?
Bro just described my tucking fears 💀
@@bearthemexican6385 well, if you read on fear, it's just science and the same for any human.
While being effective, I think that Skinamarink’s only issue is it’s length. As a fan of movies with over-length usually, I did realize that it’s slightly lengthy because it does not have a lot of plot. It is a nightmarish watch and best served all on your own with no lights on. But it takes some stamina to go through it.
I agree. I did end up enjoying it but the length was pretty taxing.
@@bixhutch6274 I think its original approach to horror and the vague story made it so interesting that you wanted to pull through. But I dare to say it would have the same effect when it had a lower runtime. 😸
I liked how it felt like I was trapped in the film. I was begging for it to end. I was sitting there alone in the dark all “just kill him and end!” Not out of frustration or boredom but just the agony of it all.
I loved this movie, it positively scared the shit out of me. Part of why it got me so bad is because of the child protagonists and their fate. The utter helplessness and futility is soul crushing. I have an almost 3 year old baby sister and the entire movie I kept imagining her in these scenarios and it just hurt my heart. So, yeah, good job.
Lol
Trash. Nothing happened
@@JazziG59 Great thought provoking response!
woah there man.... I dont think thats ApRoPrIatE for this comment sections,.. why dont you head on outta here.. lol.lolololol
Oh who cares? There's endless amounts of actual real horror in the world that makes it look like nothing. Maybe if this was released decades ago.
Just like the short film this is based on, I found this more sad than scary. I guess it was a little creepy at times but not likely to keep me up at night. My teenage daughter loved it and found it scary as hell, so I realize I am probably not the target audience. I appreciate what the director was going for though and the movie was effective in dredging up a recurring dream I’ve had since childhood. It’s been years since I had the dream where I’m walking through the house panicked because none of the lights or locks on the doors are working. P.S: I couldn’t sleep for days after seeing “The Blair Witch Project” back in my younger days so I definitely dig the “more is less” “let your mind fill in the blanks” type of horror.
is this movie based off that short film called heck?
@@billyray6210 yes.
A recurring theme in my nightmares even as an adult is the locks on the doors to outside not working or me realizing I forgot to lock a door in the middle of the night and right as I go to lock it I see someone outside on my patio reaching for the sliding glass door as I rush to try to lock it first. For some reason that nightmare mostly only occurred at a condo I lived at and it was the only time I lived alone and one time my lock on the sliding glass door to the patio WAS broken and I had to jam a rod down in the track to keep anyone from being able to open it from the outside so that is probably a lot of where that nightmare came from. I also had recurring sleep paralysis there when I've rarely had it anywhere else I've lived. And the worse part was the layout of the second floor....it was just made to host nightmares because my bedroom was at the very end of a long hall. Like when I was lying in bed I could see straight out my bedroom door all the way down the hall. At the end of the hall to the right was where the stairs were. So basically if someone broke in and was coming up the stairs I wouldn't be able to see them until they reached the landing and then they'd have to turn the corner and walk down that long freaking liminal space to my room. There were nights I'd swear I'd hear something downstairs coming up the stairs and I'd be frozen in bed scared that any moment now I'd see someone turn that corner from the stairs towards my room. Or one of my cats would be lying on my bed looking at something down the hall that I couldn't see. It was usually just one of my other 2 cats lol but damn those were some long nights. I kept my gun in my night stand but during sleep paralysis episodes I wouldn't have been able to move to get it.
Damn my heart is racing just reliving that!
I saw it in theaters and almost left in The first 15 minutes like he said, then I thought to myself you went to an abstract avant garde horror movie, you can't get frustrated because it's exactly that. It's stuck with me for a couple weeks and I think we'll see it's influence in the future
I tried to give it the same treatment but couldn't keep watching after the second jump scare. I felt insulted after how patient I'd been with the movie just for the director to pull that cheap trick. Walked out after an hour :/
No we won't. It'll be forgotten
I would have left at 30 minutes. Only reason I watched the whole thing, cause I got so angry I wanted to see it out to rip it.
well yeah, all the people that say its boring got what they expected, its a slow movie thats so far removed from the typical horror movie formula. If you don't like the movie, and felt you wasted your time, maybe stick to JUST traditional style horror movies, cheers!
I hope to see more movies from Mr. Ball !
This was 100 mins of torture for my husband & me. We spent the entire time yelling "WAKE UP!" at each other cause we were both nodding off.
😆😆😆😆
The short film it's based off of (Heck, 2020) is way more succinct and easily consumable. Highly recommend it.
@@vishaansingh1019I'm not watching anything else by this terrible director. His films deserve to languish in obscurity.
@@brewingtea1 Bit extreme, Heck is easily digestible and a lot more charming as a zero-budget short production.
As someone who is afraid of the dark this movie TERRIFIED me and I am not ashamed to admit it lol. But when I watched it I had the theory that we are either seeing a family dissolve after the mother left like you said. Or it's some horrific nightmare of the father harming his family and they are navigating through death.
I think its likely the mother who is the potential abuser. She is the one that takes the form of the Monster in the Closet and at the end its her face we see melting. The fact she is also the one most associated with the monster and her comment about how your father and I love you. Though it could be a situation with two abusive parents.
Your not a alone bro
So either the mother left or the father is killing them? Gotta make the man the worse one huh? He clearly paid them no attention but it was only after the mom left
Oof
@@notthefbi7015 wow
to be honest, my girlfriend and I were so tired for our first watch we had to turn it off after 20 mins but the next night we watched the full movie and it was genuinely the scariest movie i’ve ever seen. the vibe is extremely unsettling and as a kid i hated dark hallways and the old cartoon music and vibe has always creeped me out. i yelled in my dorm and almost got a noise complaint 😭😭
The reason I liked skinamarink is that it’s something different and I’m a big fan of analog horror. The movie made me uncomfortable while watching which a horror movie hasn’t done to me in a very long time
The last time moving to make me feel uncomfortable was Mother!. I still can't watch that movie without feeling anxiety. I didn't get any of that from this one unfortunately. I didn't relive childhood traumas, I wasn't scared at all, I wasn't bored I just was waiting...
@@rozwynn2349 The movie “Mother” was very unsettling!
One of my most memorable nightmares as a child, and I’ll add I am afraid of the dark, is when I was like 4. I got out of bed because I was thirsty and went into the kitchen. My mom was there folding clothes at the table and my stepdad was sitting down in a chair at the table. I was calling for them and they acted as if I wasn’t even there. I kept calling for my mom and then started crying because she wasn’t acknowledging me. Then I looked on the wall behind my stepdad and there was a face, just a face, coming through the wall laughing at me. The face continued laughing and says “they can’t hear you, they can’t see you and they don’t care about you.” I was thinking about watching this movie but I think it’s my literal nightmare. So I’ll pass 😭
Brother that was prolly a demon and you need to pray for God’s protection
if i had that nightmare even at my current age i’d still be terrified lol
This sounds terrifying.
So I did some research with the 572 number they give us for days passed and I found something really interesting. When you reverse the numbers (much like how things are looped, reversed/flipped) the number 275 spiritually means a loved one needs help and it seems like a large portion of this movie was geared toward trying to find their mom or dad. Just some food for thought
Another theory I saw was that the movie represented abuse so needing help could be tied to wanting to help but not knowing how.
@@user-nn1fx1nc7e that’s what I was thinking! I’m loving this movie and the appreciation people have for abstract films! Really good point btw!
Omggg
I streamed this movie last night. If you carefully noticed each frames milisecond after the "572 days" text, it actually turns into 275 right afterwards.
@@raidennaz1590 oh shit my man I thought it was a crazy coincidence on the major chance they didn’t mean anything by it but now I gotta rewatch it
I think the creepy and tragic thing about this film is that the only 2 characters are only small children.
If you've ever been left home alone and don't know where your family is as a child, that's what the film felt like to me. That unsettling feeling of being in danger in a place you're supposed to feel safe.
The fact that I'm scared AF by watching stills while you explain it, speaks volumes about this movie.
Lmao
The movie is basically all stills, so you’re halfway to the movie lmfao
Speaks volumes about you.
"Going to the toilet at 1am as a 5 year old: The Movie"
For anyone wondering, the song you're hearing in the back of your head is from The Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show. I've said it once and I'll say it again. It's so strange how old catchy jingals and songs from kid shows and commercials can be buried deep in one's head.
Burried nothing! I sang that one to my kids until about three years ago when they grew out of bedtime songs. :)
I remember watching it on TV and can still do the dance!😄❤
Wuuut, that is THEE jam! I was just singing it with my neighbor a couple months ago- shout out to Sharon Louis and Bram🤘
The fact the children just sort of accept the fact doors and windows are disappearing shows that it’s Kevin dreaming, we seem to just accept the strange stuff that happens in dreams
Maybe they’re just following survival rule number one, DONT PANIC.
@@placeholderdoe true but they are just kids when you think about it. It makes sense though that a kid wouldn’t freak out in the same way an adult would. It makes the movie more horrific because we really feel bad for the kids being that they have no clue what’s happening
@@Barfigarfi thank makes sense too, kids don’t know reality as fully as adults do. So a disappearing door might make more sense to a child
It’s just a nightmare, it hits so many notes from my memories of them when I was a kid. Strange happenings, inability to do basic things (dial a phone, run away, etc.), mysterious entities, being trapped in scary loops, being alone in the dark, the list goes on.
It’s a nightmare, it’s meaningless in all but the feeling felt
I love it
Permanent negative changes, death of family, maiming beyond repair, it’s honestly so accurate. I haven’t thought of it in years and yet it was clear as day. I don’t know if I’d ever have remembered
Dream of something like jumping off a cliff and see if you wake up before ur body hit the ground and then ask urself what happen 😂😂😂
I like that you gave the movie a fair go and didn't crap all over it, the clarity you brought to the plot speaks to how good your media literacy is
I took the film as coded for a home invasion where the parents are taken away from the kids and killed. The scene where the dad says look under the bed twice proving there were no monsters, but the mother assuring her "someONE" is here before telling her to close eyes and being murdered. When kaylee keeps asking for parents he takes her eyes and mouth similar to duct tape, leaving him to "play" with kevin the most pliant victim.
This is very plausible. Everyones theories on this movie are so good cuz it could legit be about any one of them.
Woah. This is deep and I can definitely see this. This is probably the most realistic theory I’ve seen.
That may have been a much better movie
Oof
Where do you people come up with this nonsense?
This feels like an exact nightmare I’ve had. When I was little I would sleepwalk a lot and had almost constant night terrors and waking dreams.
Called it. In his last video I commented on hoping he'd cover this movie. Again, it was like watching a 2 hour version of Samara's tape from The Ring.
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Oof, yeah i totally get it! It has that vibe for sure ✌️
More happened in that 30 second clip than happens in this entire film.
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control lmao! That's actually what I was telling everyone. That Samara's tape was more entertaining than this.
This movie was definitely a visual replay of a childhood nightmare that I had when I was little. I’ve had so many horrifying experiences as a kid. Glad to finally be an adult haha. Thank you for the review !
I absolutely love this movie and I know that so many people will hate it and think it’s boring so I won’t bring it up 💀
It feels like someone remembering a bad/traumatic event they experienced as a child. Whether be an experience that they’re genuinely remembering and it’s just foggy and they just kind a remember the fear they had as a kid, or it be a nightmare version memory like they’re reliving it in their sleep, To me it felt like a metaphor for a child, watching their parents, lose them selves to an addiction, or some thing, and then watching as the abuse also becomes part of it
I honestly don’t even know if I liked or didn’t like the movie, but it’s the first and only film I’ve ever seen that evoked this constant feeling of dread, anxiety, and despair. I think that’s pretty brilliant.
I mean you're staring at a weird image, with quiet audio, waiting for something to scare you.
It's not really impressive. Just RUclips "jump scares" and watch an hour worth.
@Abstract
It's done a better job of scaring me than most horror movies nowadays. I'll call that a win for Skinamarink.
The reason this movie was bad is because, while the director might have stumbled on some images/scenes that disturbed a few viewers, he's not going to be able to reproduce that. You guys can't explain what even makes it remotely watchable.
You said yourself that this was the one movie that made you feel a certain way. That's great (for you) but if you can't define what it was, it will never happen again, even with the same director.
If you could clarify what you liked, others could recommend movies to give you that same experience. Or you could recommend this movie to people that you know would like it.
Instead, you get, "I can't understand why so many people thought this was boring!"
That confusion, present in fans of this movie, is the root of the problem.
The less you try to think about an “entity” and a realm the less scary it becomes, it loses something when you try to understand it, like a nightmare you can barely remember, where nothing exists beyond the last bit of light, it’s a terrifying watch for sure
From my own reading of the movie; I feel like the entity is childlike itself as it toys with the children almost aimlessly much like they are doing while trapped there
Yes!
I call it "baby's first haunting." To me it's like a baby demon/entity learning how to haunt...the way it tells Kevin "play with me" and gets mad when he ignores it especially lol
The director said the whole point of the movie is to be inside a child's nightmare. I imagine the one that fell on the stairs as mentioned and is now traumatized.
He didn't fall. His father tells the hospital that he didn't need stitches. His father beat him savagely and is now trying to both deny it and minimize the effect. Kevin has no escape.
@@vishaansingh1019jesus fucking christ
You know that feeling when you wake up late at night, and you swear you can see a dark shape in the corner of your room? There are those 1-2 seconds where your hair stands on end and your heart starts to pound, before you turn on the lights just to see a chair or a lamp. Those 1-2 seconds are where this movie lives. Except the lights never come on, and your eyes never adjust. A surreal fever dream that you should’ve forgotten.
Wonderfully explained, indeed
This movie brought out the still very really fear of the dark I’ve had since infancy. It’s literally every one of my childhood fears about the dark becoming reality. My fear on this one is l at a visceral level for me….I can honestly say this TERRIFIED me.
same man, can’t watch the movie but even reviews are paralysing to me slept with the light on
@@charlotte3794 OMG same! Like my house is a 1953 build and creaks…you’ll hear knocking on the walls in the middle of the night or the hardwood settling…I’m used to it now but when we first bought it I was up all night. I have night lights in EVERY SINGLE ROOM and I still cannot walk into a pitch dark room. It’s the fear of what IS there that I can’t see & what COULD be there. Like the scene with the eyes…I think my soul left my body. Even watching this review, I had to turn it all the way down because of that creepy disembodied voice.
Same I am terrified of the dark But the weird thing is is I can't sleep unless it's a pitch black but the dark scares the shit out of me...
I remember research being done in the 70s about children's worst fears. This movie nailed them all, they did their research. It touched upon a particular horror of mine. When I was about 4 or 5 I used to wake up TERRIFIED and all I could do was creep silently through a dark house to the TV and put in a VHS of some shitty cartoons. It was just the glow of the TV, me sitting in front, and as far as I was concerned, everything else in every other direction was infinite terror
I liked the part when he said “What are we, some kind of Skinamarink Squad?”
"I'm not in Skinamarink Kaylee, I am the Skinamarink
You have to appreciate that he doesn't ask his viewers for anything. He just provides entertainment in the form of really good breakdowns. No join or Patreon. This is one of the many reasons I'll always support this channel.
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Learned about this through Wendigoon and now I'm just trying to make sense of it all. I really like the movie. A nice breather from modern horror in Hollywood
I feel like the entire movie is just a nightmare both kids are having. There parents are probably going through a divorce, the kids don't understand and are scared and frustrated, it's causing Kevin to sleep walk which eventually leads to him falling and getting hurt, I don't think he's in a coma because that wouldn't make the time we spend with Kaylee make sense unless he's dreaming he's his sister which I guess can happen I've dreamt I was someone else before.
With everything going on the house probably doesn't feel like a home anymore and the kids feel trapped there, that's why the windows disappear, and maybe the disappearing of the toilet symbolizes bed wetting? I know kids do then when stressed or scared. They're 4 and 5, their hurt, scared, and have no idea why their parents, especially their mom are acting so weird and this is what their minds have conjured up.
I'm glad I found this channel. I've been watching you since 2020 and I just wanted to tell you that your videos helped get me through my hardest time in my life. They were a nice escape. Thank you
Hope it’s better now, glad the videos helped
May u have better days ahead.
The fact that you made a point of returning again & again to something that was a positive experience for you during such a difficult dif time
May u have better days ahead.
The fact that you made a point of returning again & again to something that was a positive experience for you during such a difficult dif time
May u have better days ahead.
The fact that you made a point of returning again & again to something that was a positive experience for you during such a difficult dif time
May u have better days ahead.
The fact that you made a point of returning again & again to something that was a positive experience for you during such a difficult dif time
I got shown Kyle’s Bitesized Nightmares a couple of years ago and instantly loved them, but I still haven’t watched the film bc the idea of one going feature-length feels like something I’ll need some time to give my undivided. I can picture it being a bit tedious if he wasn’t very cognizant of maintaining attention.
I’m sure he’ll only get better at staying engaging throughout a full film going forward. He definitely has a unique aesthetic & ability to build atmosphere.
His settings , props, and ambience put me in a very specific, twistedly nostalgic place.
It's definitely smart to wait and watch this movie when you can give it your undivided attention because otherwise you'll miss a lot.
This movie made me feel fear i felt as a little kid and it somehow lingered with me for a while. I can see why people didn't like it but it certainly hit my nerves.
this film made half of the movie theater audience in my movie theater fall asleep.
I couldn't fall asleep because I kept waiting for something to happen and then it just said the end...
Made half of mine leave within 45 minutes
ikr, idk how crap like this makes money.
@@Br33zeKooL Because everyone interprets things differently. While it may be boring to one person, it may be the most interesting thing someone else has ever seen. I haven’t seen it myself do I can’t speak one way or the other but I’ve seen plenty of things I find to be shit blow tf up so that just goes to show how everyone sees things differently
@@dominiquereyes22 did you even read my comment or are you just talking shit out of pure boredom
ive had nightmares being stuck in my house without windows or lights and being forced to wander aimlessly till i can find a generator that always changes locations when i turn it on it wakes me up and its always lucid
I’ve been waiting for someone to explain this one. Thanks, dude!!!
This feels like one of those movies that’s meant to be confusing and obscure so people can call it cinema and say they understand and it’s a masterpiece
This isn't really a theory, but I think we've all had at least one nightmare that seemed to go on forever. This movie reminds me of that.
One advantage of the experimental style is that it doesn’t put too much weight on the child actors to carry the story. Just voice and some body acting, which can be done separately and in many quick takes rather than going over and over every scene. More traditional films have to get one take where the facial, voice and body acting are all good enough, which is hard on the young actors and can get mixed results.
I saw it in theaters and was so scared I clung to one of my friends for dear life. First time in a long time a movie terrified me. I at first was annoyed by the camera angles, but then I got into it as I couldn't tell if I was actually seeing something in the dark or not. A solid 9/10 from me
Yeah this aesthetic is literally sleep paralysis. The muted hue and darkness seeping in and the strange sounds and the feeling of something just looming over you. But I agree that it's super great. Just went on too long.
My sleep paralysis entity is an anime girl
i experience sleep paralysis for the first time few months ago. I hate it and i wish to never experience that again😨
One thing I noticed is that it only really tortures the kids when they don't obey it. That's why Kevin got to live and it tells him "Go to sleep".
"How dark do you want me to film the movie?"
"Dark. Real Dark. Like, leave the lens cap on"
The movie felt very much like watching one of those analog horrors on youtube. To me it almost felt like a victim's pov of a Mandela Catalogue episode at times. Seemed like they were using some sort of subtle swirl effect with the grainy noise you see for those shots that linger on the darkness to help trick the mind into trying to recognize shapes within that darkness, which really added to that uncertainty of "do I see something there or are my eyes playing tricks with me?".
Had no idea what was going on story-wise, but still thought the film was cool for the way it gets your mind to play tricks with your eyes and for the creepy moments. This definitely seems one of those movies where the more active your imagination is with darkness the scarier the movie will be to you (or vice versa). I'm looking forward to finding a video somewhere someday that breaks down all the subtle things shown to us that I missed.
I think this shows that some mediums don't transition well into other mediums. Analog horrors are great in short bursts over time. When you try to cram it all into a movie it doesn't seem to fit well. But, I am all for people to keep trying.
Exactly
Nah this movie is great
@@f.p.2010 What it managed to do with the budget it had is impressive no matter what anyone says, but the fear factor definetly depends on the watcher like FoundFlix says at the beginning. It utilizes mostly from what i saw the fears of the dark and "what could be there in that corner that's too dark to see into"
And i'm not out here saying i wasn't scared by it this stuff fucking terrifies me
Agreed. I like analog horror but I couldn't finish this one. It just went on too long.
That's not true at all. They work fine if there's a script and this doesn't have one. The director is a hack.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who felt this way about the movie. I thought it was an age thing and people over 30 were too old to enjoy it and it seems like that’s pretty well held true for the most part!!
I'm 47 and I love it. I don't even know the ages of the people I've seen that like it, and if anything the ones who don't like it and insult the writer of the movie seem to be young
So it's a movie-lenght nightmare. Very cool concept!
I love movies like this!
Everyone in my family hated The Blair Witch Project but it creeped the hell out of me.
This looks even better. I was getting creeped out just watching your video!
The film grain crawling across the screen during the silence and tension of Kayley in her parents’ room made me feel like I was on an edible. It was dope. Film grain being almost a character rather than merely an aesthetic choice got points with more, whether that was intended or not
Please explain Infinity Pool, dude. Just watched it, and even though i got the gist of it, I still feel like there were questions unanswered, and your breakdowns and explanations are top-notch.
I love the way the grainyness played tricks on your eyes. Made me scared something was gonna pop out the entire movie
Honestly I like the "coma" theory where he's slowly slipping into death. Heard this one a lot. Someone even said that when he takes a knife to his eye is him actually in surgery.
How is society not tired of the "coma" theory yet? It feels like everything I've watched has a coma theory.
@@BBoy4040 Because it's an easy and plausible answer that when excepted let's the questioner free to no longer endlessly hypothesizes. Especially if it's only to do with a movie, book, or some other form of consumable media.
@lordbyronkeith9488 It's not even plausible half the time. That sort of theory only works if you have a singular POV throughout the whole thing, which doesn't work 99% of the time.
It's also just genuinely a huge waste of time. Unless its an episode for character development, a Dreamlands-style setting, or a dream entity like Freddy Kreuger, then keep the coma/dream out of the story. I'm not watching a horror movie where everything is just a dream, because there are absolutely no stakes and nothing is really happening.
i just watched it. I took 3 ten minute power naps in under 2 hours. Groundbreaking
There are lots of possibilities.
1. Kevin sleepwalks, falls down the stairs, smacks his head. Dad and doctors consider it a bump on the head, nothing more, ignoring the concussion. Kevin slips into a coma after further problems…turns out he has a massive brain tumor that this bump just makes worse. A majority of the movie is Kaylee trying to speak to him while he’s out, since they’re close, he can imagine her with him. A lot of time passes, mom kills herself, and dad gives up and leaves, the strain on them both is too much, bills piling up, etc. The doors disappearing is because his brain is forgetting his home and where things are located, windows, doors, etc., the toilet isn’t needed, since he’s cathetered. Later, we hear Kaylee going with an unknown voice, this is the social worker taking her into foster care, how Kevin interprets it. Also put the knife in your eye is the surgery the doctors hope will save his life, again, how his brain interprets it. The voice is just what he hears around him in his own head. This explains why the adults are often muffled and distant, but Kaylee’s voice is almost sounding like she’s talking right in his ear, as a kid would. The surgery isn’t successful, and Kevin dies after 572 days in a comatose state. The rest is residual memories fading from his brain. Lending further to this is the TV playing cartoons, notably, the kid-fly trapped in a spiderweb while the parent-flies look on, unable to do anything but show fear.
2. The head knock was VERY damaging, forcing the parents to put him in an assisted living facility, this is all how his brain interprets things around him, most things above still apply, dad and mom are broken, mom kills herself, dad drinks himself into death or leaving. 572 days later, without his loving sister, he eventually breaks and goes completely insane, trapped in his own head.
3. Then there’s the abuse theory, not ruling it out, but not enough info to go on for a steady conclusion.
It wasn’t perfect but it definitely scared me. I watched it in a mostly empty theater and the scene where Kevin was told to look under the bed terrified me. I really thought it was original and effective.
I thought it was interesting that the clear beginning of a nightmare was when the mom seemed to explain an impending divorce to one of the children. Any child of divorce knows that talk. If there's trauma children remember, it's when their parents divorce and physical abuse.
My theory is that it's a representation of the fear of being trapped into a timeless dream state, like a lucid dream, or sleep paralysis. This film maker has done other films about nightmares. I don't think this is much of a deviation. I think it could be something having to do with the head injury. The 578 days thing could also be a reference to the extreme timelessness of dreams.
All my nightmares used to be like this. Things randomly moving, dissapearing, appearing, shrouded in darkness. Weird, abstract disconnected shots of a house that I've never seen before in my whole life, giving the vibe of a friend's house at night during a sleepover.
After my friends and I left the theater, obviously we went on for quite some time what the hell we just saw. My interpretation of it is that after seeing the blood spill at the end, the father murdered the mother and kids, and they're in purgatory. But that's just speculation. I'm not saying I'm correct or anything close.
Completely incorrect reading lol
@@aaronsanders6162 how do you mean?
@@Faben32 the father didn’t murder them lol not sure how you arrived at that conclusion even vaguely
@@aaronsanders6162 man stop. If this is how they interpret it then that's how they interpret it how are you going to tell them that they are wrong for the way that they interpreted something...
@@babyturkey8342 NO MY TAKE IS FACT. THE REST OF YOU HOLD HERETIC OPINIONS. THIS IS YOU FIRST AND FINAL WARNING
Thanks for saving 1 hour and 40 mins of my life. I really appreciate it.
Bruh, the lingering eyes of that toy phone and the disappearing blood was the freakiest shit Ive ever seen. Its the grungy look of the dark unknown, and the inability to be able to see whats really happening. Often times its less about what is thrown in your face that scares you, but what your brain thinks of based off what you can hear, and what you think you can see that is the creepiest thing.
The eyes particularly freaked me out, thanks to a lucid dream I had of a disconnected pair of eyes and a big smile that was pressed against my face, my body feeling electrified and the taste of copper in my mouth. And when I looked it in the eyes, it made a buzzing noise, shooting back into the corner of my pitch black room. Ever since Ive never been able to sleep in the dark, and I need at least something to make light.
No joke, it reminded me of that one image of that fucked up face that was floating around a little while back
Kevin being in a coma from the head damage is the easiest explaination
I can't wait for a Blu-Ray release, really eager to own a physical copy of it.
As a teen, that feeling of night terrors still bothers me. this movie encapsulates that feeling perfectly
My thought: never saw the film, watched this ending explained once, and spent half of last night awake trying not to think of the song, how dark it was, and wether my window had disappeared. Can’t wait for the movie to reach mainstream streaming platforms
Edit: Finally saw the movie on hulu. It made me physically uncomfortable, and now I'm afraid of the noises my house makes. Worth it👌
Watched this at midnight, all the lights out, all alone.
Most terrifying movie experience of my life.
This is coming from a huge horror buff, pick a horror movie, and I’ve probably seen it.
If nothing else, this film is a great litmus test for a person's family history. Anyone with a healthy relationship with them will find this movie scary as shit. Anyone from an abusive household will be bored to tears.
I haven’t been this disturbed watching a movie since Eraserhead. The shots in that one eventually made me so uneasy and queasy that I STILL haven’t watched it in its entirety. It felt the same after this one. I found it highly effective- and It disturbed me to my core. Interesting too because I was never afraid of the dark as a kid. I think it was their powerlessness and the quirky camera angles and everything eventually being upside down.. not sure what it did to my psyche but it definitely did something. I loved it.
Half way through I thought that it reminded me of Eraserhead too and how utterly disturbed I was by that movie
Im a 33 years old man and I can clearly remember my first nightmare, back to somewhere where I was 3 or 4.
My cousin and my neighbor were waking me up in the morning and inviting to play outside, I stood from the bed and follow them, but just before leaving my room I had a thought “what if I put my arm behind my door, will something grab me?” AND IT DID, something grab my hand and my friends where trying to save me by pulling my other hand, they loose my hand, then I was absorbed by the dark space behind my door. It’s been 29 years and I remember it perfectly.
I love watching a wall for 90 minutes
coming from a neglected child, i could barely even get through most of the movie. ill try again but man. its hard.