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I've only seen three of these, but I liked all of them and mean to watch about three others. I generally like horror that tries to be artsy or experimental, like Skinamarink or They Look Like People or Occult (2009). I admittedly got all of them from the same hype-monger, I'm not really aware of film . . .
Skinamarink perfectly captured the unreal feeling of being a young kid in a dark house right after waking up from a nightmare. There were no rules of reality protecting those kids and that was scary, but mixed in there it spent like 70 of its 100 minute runtime pointing the camera at random blank walls?? It really lost me with the pacing
There were definitely unnecessary shots, but I think overall the camerawork was an integral aspect of the film, because it's meant to convey a dissociative and alienating mood by avoiding letting you see things from which you would naturally focus on to get grounding information, such as people's faces, and by rejecting that I think it does a surprisingly good job relative to the simplicity of the technique for at least nudging the viewer in the direction of the struggle for situational awareness that you feel in some types of nightmare. To me, it's easily one of the most nightmare-like films I've ever seen.
Without the camerawork, I think it would be a much more boring and unexpressive film, even if the novelty of the basic premise and the strength of the script would still be worth mentioning.