Skinamarink

"What happens in Skinamarink sneaks up on you so quietly that you aren’t just scared; you believe."

"As impressive as this experiment in terror can be, it’s too sparse to earn its runtime."

"Quiet horror at its finest. Skinamarink isn’t scary because of what it depicts. It’s scary because it already knows that our imagination will do half of the work."

"A singularly nightmarish piece of horror filmmaking and one of the year’s must-see genre films."

"(Skinamarink) uses its tiny budget to its advantage."

"Ingeniously evoking a child’s response to the inexplicable, Skinamarink sways on the border between dreaming and wakefulness, a movie as difficult to penetrate as it is to forget."

"It's only January, but this might be the most divisive horror movie of 2023... I might hate it myself; it's kind of hard to tell."

"51 boring/49 provocative."

"Eerily abstract..."

"A one-of-a-kind film that re-creates the sensation of being very young and essentially powerless, unable even to articulate why everything feels so … wrong."

"A major debut from a filmmaker who is willing to tell horror stories in a way that's both different for the genre and yet also like something we’ve all experienced before."

"Skinamarink is as hair-raising as it is boring, which doesn’t feel like a failure so much as the goal..."

"It can be a polarising experience that pushes the limits of patience."

"By the end I was more bored than frightened."

"A creeping, experimental indie..."

"The images appear to be the tip of an iceberg, but there’s no iceberg beneath them."