[Nerd’s Pick]

Oh. My. God.

This film is absolutely incredible. Its vise-like grip on building tension grabs you by the throat with the same force. You spend the movie watching and waiting, struggling to make sense of shapes in the darkness, all while you can feel the danger in the room with you. There are scenes where nothing actually happens, but you spend so long staring into the dark, pressing forward, that you’re glued in scared certainty that you will see something unfathomably frightening.

The constant tension of the movie is only alleviated by a few “jump scares,” which really got my roommates. The whole experience played off that instinctual, primal fear within all of us. The jump scares never startled me, but at the climax, instead of screaming or jumping, I was so horrified that I just burst into tears.

The concept of Skinamarink is to evoke the feeling of the strange, haunting nightmares you have when you become scared as a child, and it’s told beautifully from the perspective of children. I found it to achieve its goal artfully, calling to mind dim, vague memories of my own childhood and partially regressing the state of my mind the more I focused on it. I am such a big fan of scary movies using your natural evolutionary fears to spook you, like when you’re lying awake at night and objects begin to look like sinister figures watching you from the shadows. This is the essence of Skinamarink.

Beautifully done, extremely spooky ending, and such a unique viewing experience. I have never seen anything like this before and I am so grateful that it exists. I did not sleep at all! This movie is absolutely phenomenal and I urge all horror fans to watch it!

Rating: 📀 I absolutely LOVED this movie!

My best friends and I (known affectionately as Goblin House) have a regular movie night where we all sit down together and watch a movie one of us has chosen. Most of these reviews will come from a Goblin Movie Night, so they will be tagged with the nickname of the Goblin who picked the movie.