Bloody Disgusting January 17, 2023 As impressive as this experiment in terror can be, it’s too sparse to earn its runtime.
indieWire January 11, 2023 It’s the opposite of "elevated horror,” whatever that means; it’s two feet above the carpet and deathly allergic to metaphor. It’s a "Backrooms" tw...
The Guardian February 1, 2023 By the end I was more bored than frightened.
Detroit News January 13, 2023 Skinamarink is mostly build and little reward, like a rollercoaster that climbs the big hill but cuts out just before going over the top. But...
Austin Chronicle January 12, 2023 A mishmash of Creepypasta aesthetics captured in a cerulean-and-violet haze marred by carefully inserted scratches, and borderline inaudible A...
The Atlantic January 13, 2023 Skinamarink, for all its dreaminess, is a successful horror film: Like many of the genre’s greatest examples, it has a sense of discovery...
New Yorker January 18, 2023 The images appear to be the tip of an iceberg, but there’s no iceberg beneath them.
New York Times January 12, 2023 Ingeniously evoking a child’s response to the inexplicable, "Skinamarink" sways on the border between dreaming and wakefulness, a movie as dif...
Whether what we witness is a somnambulant nightmare, panicky, partial processing of parental abuse or divorce, or genuine demonic incursion, K...
It seems to exist in the liminal space between awake and asleep, expertly capturing the way the mind plays tricks on you over a restless night...
Taps into a primal fear of a child waking up in the night finding the things they take comfort (home, toys, cartoons) twisted into something n...
Empire Magazine January 28, 2023 It’s an unsettling Rorschach test with a haunting ending that will settle in the pit of your stomach like a stone. But it can be a polarizing...
I found "Skinamarink" to be terrifying, but it’s a film that asks for (and rewards) patience… if you go with it, you may feel that you’ve touc...
Chicago Tribune January 11, 2023 It’s a low-fi rumination on inexplicable and gradually more threatening loneliness – the sort of childhood trauma typically explained to...
Skinamarink is, at its heart, firmly and gleefully experimental, and that means leaving more traditional forms of narrative arc building behind in...
Slant Magazine January 8, 2023 Skinamarink is confidently made, and certain upside-down images are especially creepy, but its spell is broken by its sheer, ungodly slowness, whic...
Rolling Stone January 10, 2023 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 ha...
Reminded me of a picture of a beautifully-drawn horse that turned into a stick figure by the end.
Skinamarink is as hair-raising as it is boring, which doesn’t feel like a failure so much as the goal of this micro-budget effort.
Inverse February 14, 2023 Skinamarink is a downright evil film that isn’t afraid to stalk the emotional core of your nostalgia until it morphs into something unrecogniz...
RogerEbert.com January 13, 2023 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 somet...
Los Angeles Times January 12, 2023 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...
