Movies & TV

i feel like 99% of horror movies suck ass

Skinamarink was good, but only for people who have seen too many horror movies. It was way too meta for me to recommend it to anyone. Like there are multiple, several minute long shots of empty hallways. And then nothing happens. No jump scares, not even something moving in the background. Just 3 minutes of a completely black screen.

For most people, that's like watching paint dry. But if you're expecting something because of established horror tropes and you spend those three minutes looking for something that isn't there? Yeah that's going to fuck with you.

I am not a horror fan in general. But I will say Skinamarink was the scariest movie I've seen so far.

I just wish they left this terrifying deleted scene in Skinamarink

Skinamarink is unwatchable.

And yet... I do think it's an interesting piece of art, and I don't know what I would change. Those long shots in the near dark evoke the kind of dull fear that you feel being in a situation that you don't understand and doesn't feel right, but also isn't scary on it's face. Weirdly, I think it works better than Heck (which is more overtly frightening, but which I think is too "external" in it's study of the child's distress, and so is less interesting). I saw both of these before I had kids, so I'm curious what my perspective would be nowadays.

I didn't watch The Outwaters because the person who recommended it to me compared it favorably to Skinamarink, and I would rather do anything else with my evening.

I feel like Skinamarink could work as a short film, maybe 20 minutes long, we didn't need 20 minutes of movie broken up by over an hour of nothing happening. Like the scary looming dark hallways were great, but not when I feel like I've been staring into them for half the movie, it lost its punch, kind of like when a movie tries to be scary by overdoing the jumpscares, this one overdid the atmosphere building and underdid everything else.