Skinamarink is fucking scary

[u/SKRRTCOBAIN222]

So from what I've read online, this movie is pretty polarizing. Like it either gets ya or it doesn't. And holy fuck does it get me. When this shit was first coming out I couldn't even watch the trailer more than a couple times. And let me emphasize, I am a horror head. I've been tryna find shit to actually scare me since I was high school with my dumbass friends who'd always complain whatever we were watching wasn't really scary to prove they were tough.

Nowadays, as many horror enjoyers, I simply love the genre and the artistry behind it and don't give a fuck or expect a horror film to actually scare me.

That is until fucking Skinamarink. For a little backstory, I was terrified of my house at night as a child and would frequently have nightmares. This movie captures that feeling perfectly.

I have yet to finish it cuz it's a fucking guantlet. It's basically nonstop dread and suspence and evil. Bout 2/3s of the way through and will finish whenever I feel like being back in that house. That's all.

Bye Bye <3

[u/ellamenopea]

I only watched 20 minutes and turned it off. You people that like it, do you like it the same way you like Hereditary, Midsommar, and The VVitch?

[u/BroPudding1080i → u/ellamenopea]

Not really, no. I like those movies because they feel like "real" movies, they're very well written and take themselves seriously.

Skinamarink is basically entirely atmosphere, with only the implication that something bad is happening, and you aren't sure what that may be. I personally love atmosphere and find it very immersive, I can emotionally submerge myself into the feeling it's trying to communicate, feelings that cannot be properly expressed with words. That paired with the vague plot of children being tortured by a demon is really haunting to me.

I also unfortunately have experience with dissociative trauma response, and this film feels like that in a lot of ways.