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2024 film by Kyle Edward Ball

This article is about the film. For the children's song, see Skidamarink

Skinamarink Theatrical release poster 9️⃣ Directed by Kyle Edward Ball Screenplay by Kyle Edward Ball Produced by Dylan Pearce Starring Lucas Paul

Dali Rose Tetreault

Ross Paul

Jaime 9️⃣ Hill Cinematography Jamie McRae Edited by Kyle Edward Ball Production

companies Mutiny Pictures

ERO Picture Company Distributed by BayView Entertainment

IFC Midnight

Shudder Release 9️⃣ dates July 25, 2024 ( ) (Fantasia)

(Fantasia) January 13, 2024 ( ) (North America) Running time 100 minutes Country Canada[1] 9️⃣ Language English BudgetR$15,000[2] Box officeR$2.1 million[3]

Skinamarink is a 2024 Canadian experimental supernatural horror film written and directed by Kyle Edward 9️⃣ Ball in his feature directorial debut.[4] The film follows two children who wake up during the night to discover that 9️⃣ they cannot find their father, and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are disappearing.

Prior to the 9️⃣ production of Skinamarink, Ball ran a YouTube channel where he would upload videos based on nightmares recounted by commenters. His 9️⃣ 2024 short film Heck was developed as a proof of concept for Skinamarink. Skinamarink was shot on digital in Ball's 9️⃣ childhood home in Edmonton, Canada. It premiered at the 26th Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 25, 2024,[5] and 9️⃣ went on to screen at other film festivals, including some that offered at-home viewing options. Copies of the film leaked 9️⃣ online; the film then garnered attention on social media apps and websites like TikTok, Reddit, and Twitter, where it attracted 9️⃣ word-of-mouth acclaim.[6][7]

Skinamarink received a theatrical release in the United States and Canada via IFC Midnight on January 13, 2024, and 9️⃣ was released on the horror streaming service Shudder on February 2.[8] The film was a box office success, grossingR$2 million 9️⃣ over aR$15,000 budget. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who characterized it as drawing upon experiences of childhood fear,[9][10][11] 9️⃣ though it received a polarized response from audiences.[12][13]

Plot [ edit ]

In 1995, four-year-old Kevin injures himself in what his six-year-old 9️⃣ sister Kaylee says is a sleepwalking episode. Kevin is taken to a hospital and brought back home. The siblings wake 9️⃣ up in the middle of the night to find that their father has disappeared and the windows, doors, and other 9️⃣ objects in their house are gradually vanishing.

Kevin suggests they sleep downstairs, where they watch cartoons on TV. They awaken to 9️⃣ find the house still dark, hear an unexplained thumping noise and find a chair standing upside-down on the ceiling. Kevin 9️⃣ then suggests that their dad "went with mom" but Kaylee does not want to talk about their mother.

The toilet in 9️⃣ the downstairs bathroom disappears. On their way to the upstairs bathroom, Kaylee sees a doll on a bedroom ceiling, and 9️⃣ Kevin ends up too frightened to use the toilet. They decide to place two buckets in the downstairs bathroom. A 9️⃣ mysterious voice calls to Kaylee from the darkness, telling her to come upstairs.

Upstairs, Kaylee sees their father in a bedroom. 9️⃣ He tells her to look under the bed but she does not see anything. She then sees their mother sitting 9️⃣ on the bed. Her mother says they love her and Kevin, and instructs her to close her eyes before vanishing. 9️⃣ Kaylee looks at the open closet and hears her mother say "There's someone here." From the closet she hears her 9️⃣ mother calling her name as well as moans of pain and bones breaking.

Kaylee returns downstairs and has Kevin help her 9️⃣ push the couch to block off the hallway from which the voice was calling her. When Kevin falls asleep, the 9️⃣ voice calls Kaylee again. When Kevin wakes up, Kaylee is gone. Toys and objects are suspended against a wall. The 9️⃣ voice calls to Kevin, beckoning him into the basement, where he sees Kaylee, who no longer has eyes or a 9️⃣ mouth. The mysterious voice tells him it wants to play, as some of the toys begin to disappear. A drawer 9️⃣ opens in the kitchen, and Kevin complies with the voice's command that he insert a knife into one of his 9️⃣ eyes.

Kevin calls 9-1-1. He whispers to the operator that he was cut with a knife and feels sick. The operator 9️⃣ tells him to stay on the line, and adults will be on their way. Kevin says that the doors have 9️⃣ disappeared before dropping the phone.

The phone turns into a Chatter Telephone toy and the voice claims responsibility for it doing 9️⃣ so, telling Kevin that it can "do anything." It says that Kaylee did not do as it told her; she 9️⃣ said she wanted her parents, so it took away her mouth. It tells Kevin to come upstairs, and he obeys. 9️⃣ Holding a flashlight, he finds himself on the ceiling. He walks into a bedroom which becomes a void.

A dollhouse is 9️⃣ shown sitting on a pile of toys, in a seemingly infinite hallway as text on the screen reads "572 days". 9️⃣ A female figure is seen sitting on the bed and her head slowly fades away, followed by the rest of 9️⃣ her body. Photos are shown of people, except their faces are either missing or distorted. Kevin cries out as blood 9️⃣ splatters onto the floor, then disappears and spatters repeatedly. He asks if he can watch something happy. An unidentifiable face 9️⃣ appears over him in his bed, telling him to go to sleep. Kevin asks for the face's name twice, but 9️⃣ it does not respond either time.

Cast [ edit ]

Lucas Paul as Kevin

Dali Rose Tetreault as Kaylee

Ross Paul as Kevin and 9️⃣ Kaylee's father

Jaime Hill as Kevin and Kaylee's mother[11]

Production [ edit ]

Development [ edit ]

Ball previously ran a YouTube channel, Bitesized 9️⃣ Nightmares, through which he would ask viewers to post comments about their nightmares and then shoot recreations of said nightmares.[14] 9️⃣ Skinamarink was inspired by the tropes recurrent in the most commonly submitted nightmares. The film was preceded by a 2024 9️⃣ proof of concept short film titled Heck, which was also directed by Ball.[15]

Ball recalled, "I'd had a nightmare when I 9️⃣ was little. I was in my parents' house, my parents were missing, and there was a monster. And lots of 9️⃣ people have shared this exact same dream."[14]

The inspiration for the film's title came after Ball heard the film's namesake song 9️⃣ in the 1958 film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and was reminded of Sharon, Lois & Bram's version, which 9️⃣ he described as "an intrinsic part of [his] childhood".[16] Ball was drawn to "Skinnamarink" as a film title because of 9️⃣ its public-domain status, the evocativeness of the hard "k" sounds, and its personal relevance to him and many others; he 9️⃣ slightly altered the spelling so that young children searching online for the song would not accidentally find his film.[16]

Filming [ 9️⃣ edit ]

Skinamarink was shot over seven days in August 2024 on a budget ofR$15,000, which was mostly crowdfunded.[17] It was 9️⃣ shot digitally,[11] with Jamie McRae serving as the film's cinematographer,[18] in Ball's childhood home in Edmonton, Canada. McRae shot on 9️⃣ a Sony FX6 with Arri Ultra Prime lenses, and he lit the movie with whatever they had available on location, 9️⃣ primarily a CRT television and small LED light. According to Ball, "Significant portions of the movie were literally just lit 9️⃣ by the television."[19] Due to the limited budget, the film was made using equipment sponsored by the local Film and 9️⃣ Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA).[6] Ball stated that, "Shooting a movie in the house you grew up in about 9️⃣ two characters that are more or less you and your sister, I didn't have to try to make it more 9️⃣ personal—it just sort of happened. And then an added benefit was my mom had saved a bunch of childhood toys 9️⃣ that we used in the movie, so it got even more personal."[20]

Ball cited the work of filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Stan 9️⃣ Brakhage, Maya Deren, Stanley Kubrick, and David Lynch as influences on Skinamarink.[20] He also stated that he was influenced by 9️⃣ the 1967 avant-garde film Wavelength and the 1974 slasher film Black Christmas, saying of the latter: "Black Christmas has a 9️⃣ lot of shots where there's just panning. I would refer to it when talking with my director of photography, who 9️⃣ hadn't seen Black Christmas: 'This is my Black Christmas shot.'"[20]

The cartoons seen on the television in Skinamarink are in the 9️⃣ public domain, including Max Fleischer's 1936 Somewhere in Dreamland and The Cobweb Hotel shorts,[21] Ub Iwerks' 1935 Balloon Land, and 9️⃣ the 1939 Merrie Melodies short Prest-O Change-O.[12]

Skinamarink makes use of subtitles for certain lines of dialogue.[20] Ball said, "The subtitles 9️⃣ do originally appear in the script because I wanted to experiment with them. I've seen it quite a bit in 9️⃣ analog horror on the internet. I thought it would be neat to play with scenes where we could hear people 9️⃣ talking but it was so quiet we could only understand them with subtitles. And then when I got to editing 9️⃣ there were certain scenes where, in retrospect, a scene is originally subtitled but the way they said something sounded good 9️⃣ so we kept the audio. It was a fun little process."[20]

Release [ edit ]

Festival screenings and leak [ edit ]

Skinamarink 9️⃣ premiered at the 26th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, on July 25, 2024.[5] Skinamarink then screened at several 9️⃣ other festivals, including some which offered at-home viewing options, with its American debut at Anomaly Film Festival in Rochester, New 9️⃣ York. Due to a technical issue, one of the festival platforms allowed the film's digital file to be pirated.[6] This 9️⃣ version was repeatedly uploaded to YouTube, and excerpts to TikTok, Reddit, and Twitter, where it attracted considerable word-of-mouth acclaim.[6] A 9️⃣ number of videos on TikTok deemed it one of the scariest films ever made, with one video asserting that it 9️⃣ "is traumatizing everyone on TikTok".[6] Ball expressed disappointment that the film was pirated, but was thankful for the positive reaction.[6]

Theatrical 9️⃣ release [ edit ]

The distribution rights for Skinamarink were acquired by AMC Networks[22] for theatrical release via IFC Films (under 9️⃣ the IFC Midnight label).[23][6]

Skinamarink was theatrically released in the United States of America and Canada on January 13, 2024,[23] opening 9️⃣ on 629 screens.[14] In the US, the film opened on partial schedules across the country, with showtimes added in accordance 9️⃣ with demand and theatres' availability. Some theatre chains, such as Regal Cinemas and Cinemark Theatres, only screened the film nationwide 9️⃣ on January 13 and 14.[2] However, half of all theatres screening Skinamarink, including AMC Theatres locations, expanded their runs of 9️⃣ the film to open engagements.[2]

Skinamarink also screened in the United Kingdom, with showings taking place at the Prince Charles Cinema 9️⃣ in London[24] and Mockingbird Cinema in Birmingham.[25]

The film was released on AMC Networks' horror streaming service Shudder on February 2, 9️⃣ 2024.[8]

Home media [ edit ]

On June 20, 2024, Skinamarink was released on DVD and Blu-ray, with a SteelBook exclusive to 9️⃣ Walmart.[26] On July 14, 2024, the company LunchmeatVHS announced on Twitter that the film would be released on limited edition 9️⃣ VHS tapes the following day, July 15, 2024.[27] The VHS tapes were limited to 200 copies total. 25 copies were 9️⃣ made with white colored shells, 50 with blue colored shells, and 125 with black colored shells.[28]

Reception [ edit ]

Box office 9️⃣ [ edit ]

Skinamarink grossed US$746,000 over the first three days of its release, for a per-screen average ofR$1,100.[2] By January 9️⃣ 15, the film's gross had risen toR$798,000, for a per-screen average ofR$1,150.[2] By January 17, the film had grossedR$890,000 domestically 9️⃣ over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.[29] Against itsR$15,000 budget, the film is considered a commercial success.[29][30]

Critical response 9️⃣ [ edit ]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 121 9️⃣ reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads, "Skinamarink can be more confounding than frightening, but for 9️⃣ viewers able or willing to dial into its unique wavelength, this unsettling film will be difficult to shake."[31] On Metacritic, 9️⃣ the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 based on 25 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable 9️⃣ reviews".[32]

Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "I found Skinamarink terrifying, but it's a film that asks for (and rewards) patience, and 9️⃣ can therefore invite revolt [...] Yet if you go with it, you may feel that you've touched the uncanny."[9] Michael 9️⃣ Gingold from Rue Morgue praised the film's shot compositions and sound design, writing that it "takes you back to being 9️⃣ a little kid lying in bed in the middle of the night, listening to strange noises coming from elsewhere in 9️⃣ the house and wondering what their frightful sources might be."[10] He added that the film often opts to neither show 9️⃣ nor tell, "but it pays off to the point where that offscreen voice's simple request to 'Look under the bed' 9️⃣ has you tingling with anticipation, and a simple sound effect can get you shivering."[10] Dread Central's Josh Korngut awarded Skinamarink 9️⃣ a score of three-and-a-half out of five stars, calling it "a deeply unsettling exploration of death, childhood, and the house 9️⃣ you grew up in", and concluding: "For those seeking a traditional horror movie experience, turn back now. And I say 9️⃣ so without judgment. [...] Filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball demands the audience pick up the shovel and do the digging on 9️⃣ their own. It's not fair, but it is an exciting and original vision of what horror can look like."[33]

Matt Donato 9️⃣ of /Film commended the film for its atmosphere, which he felt was derived from a familiarity with childhood experiences of 9️⃣ fear, though he also criticized its runtime as overlong.[18] He called it "exquisitely divisive — the kind of film that 9️⃣ will balance zero and five-star reviews. That said, those seeking an abstract exploration of lights-out anxieties by lo-fi means should 9️⃣ seek this shot-on-film-lookin' curiosity that abides by no conventional filmmaking rules."[18] Matthew Jackson of The A.V. Club gave the film 9️⃣ a grade of "A", writing that, "If you're willing to follow Ball and company down these dark corridors, into this 9️⃣ twisted view of primal childhood fear and how easily we get lost in that fear, you're in for an absolutely 9️⃣ unforgettable horror experience."[34] Rolling Stone's K. Austin Collins characterized Skinamarink as featuring a "quiet cadence of cutting, oddly mundane, wait-and-see 9️⃣ terror," and concluded that the film is "quiet horror at its finest. Skinamarink isn't scary because of what it depicts. 9️⃣ It's scary because it already knows that our imagination will do half of the work."[7] Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert gave 9️⃣ the film three out of four stars, calling it "a difficult film to review", and "an experiment in form and 9️⃣ storytelling, pushing viewers to stop interpreting it and experience it instead."[35]

Rachel Ho of Exclaim! compared the narrative structure of Skinamarink 9️⃣ to that of a dream, and wrote that it elicits fear through "a familiar dread that paints the entire film" 9️⃣ rather than a conventional storyline.[11] She added that it "taps into our childhood nightmares, when the nonsensical made sense and 9️⃣ the dark was a living, breathing organism to be feared", and wrote, "It's been awhile since I've been this scared 9️⃣ while watching a movie, and it's not even because of jump scares or the boogeyman. It's the disarming and unsettling 9️⃣ feeling Ball creates, and the anxiety that he builds that never quite dissipates."[11] Richard Brody of The New Yorker called 9️⃣ the film "accomplished but seemingly unfinished—indeed, hardly begun", lamenting it as having "no referent world, no identifiable background, for [its 9️⃣
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[...] Yet it's also 9️⃣ an eye-straining act of endurance [...] The pat defense is that Skinamarink is not for conventional horror audiences, and that's 9️⃣ obvious, but at the same time it feels overextended as a conceptual piece."[37] Slant Magazine's Chuck Bowen felt that the 9️⃣ film's "spell is broken by its sheer, ungodly slowness, which springs from a paucity of ideas. There's simply not much 9️⃣ going on here. And with one's mind permitted to roam for vast stretches, there's time to consider Ball's borrowings."[38] Seeing 9️⃣ the works of Robert Bresson as one such influence, Bowen wrote: "Ball's innovation is to present such enjoyable hokum with 9️⃣ a kind of Bressonian anti-naturalism, turning the proceedings austere and humorless. [...] What this monotonous formalist exercise doesn't have, though, 9️⃣ is Bresson's sense of how minute details reveal unexpected dimensions of a person's soul."[38]

Cath Clarke of The Guardian professed to 9️⃣ "being underwowed" by the film, calling it "a little undeserving of its newly acquired cult status" and lacking "enough ideas 9️⃣ to stretch beyond a 10-minute short. By the end I was more bored than frightened."[39]

Accolades [ edit ]

Audience response [ 9️⃣ edit ]

Skinamarink received a polarized response from audiences;[12] this, in combination with its viral spread on social media following its 9️⃣ festival leak, drew comparisons to The Blair Witch Project (1999), another horror film that garnered word-of-mouth anticipation and split audience 9️⃣ reactions.[12][42]

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