Skinamarink (2023) on Netflix
In 1995, four-year-old Kevin and his six-year-old sister Kaylee wake at night to find their father gone. Windows, doors and objects throughout the house are steadily disappearing.
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- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb4.7/1021,916 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes72%
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Plot summary
Kevin, who is four, is hurt at home in an incident that his sister Kaylee, six, puts down to sleepwalking. He goes to a hospital and comes back. That night the children wake and cannot find their father. The windows and doors of the house, and the things inside it, are disappearing a few at a time. Kevin wants them to sleep downstairs, where the television shows cartoons. They wake in the same darkness to an unexplained thumping sound and a chair sitting upside-down against the ceiling. Kevin says their father went with their mother, and Kaylee tells him not to talk about her. When the toilet in the downstairs bathroom is gone, they decide to use buckets instead.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Skinamarink (2023)
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- A technical issue on a festival streaming platform let Skinamarink's digital file be pirated; the film was uploaded to YouTube and spread on Reddit, TikTok and Twitter, where videos called it one of the scariest films ever made. Director Kyle Edward Ball said he was disappointed by the piracy but thankful for the reaction.
- Kyle Edward Ball took the film's title from the song "Skinnamarink", which he knew from the 1958 film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sharon, Lois & Bram's version, and altered the spelling so young children searching online for the song would not find his film.
- Skinamarink was shot over one week in August 2021 on a budget of just $15,000, most of which was raised through crowdfunding.
- Skinamarink was lit with whatever was available on location, mainly a CRT television and a small LED light; Kyle Edward Ball said significant portions of the movie were literally lit only by the television.
- Ball based the film on a nightmare he had as a child, in which he was in his parents' house, his parents were missing and there was a monster; he said lots of people had shared that exact same dream.
- Ball wrote subtitles into the script as an experiment, having seen them in internet analog horror, wanting scenes where dialogue was so quiet it could only be understood with subtitles; some lines kept their audio because the delivery sounded good.
