Skinamarink Explained - A Forgotten Nightmare

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the "love you" "love you too!" was so cute and made my heart sink as I realized that these kids were absolutely not going to make it out ok

I think that 'Can we watch something happy' is simply just a statement of someone reaching their limit. And that's the only way they can express it. They're done; exhausted and giving up.

I love hearing you explain "we see this and that happening" meanwhile the screen just shows a smudge in the darkness

The father being gone/unresponsive, and the mom "inviting in" the entity makes me think it was something along the lines of a traumatic divorce

When it’s happening to adults it’s scary. When it’s happening to kids it’s heart breaking.

In my honest opinion, feeling that you're not safe in a place where you're supposed to feel safe and secure is one of the worst feelings that you could experience. Home is a place where you're supposed to feel as if nothing can harm you, but if you do, then something is horribly- horribly wrong.

The cartoon the kids were watching with the dog opening those doors is actually a cartoon made by Max Fleshier in 1931. In it, Bimbo (the dog in the cartoon) tries to escape a cult and is essentially tortured in ways similar to what Kevin went through and tempted by the cult by a look a like of a loved one (Bimbo's girlfriend in this case) in an effort to get him to join. The animation itself is called "Bimbo's Initiation" and it's weird but so is most 1930's animation. At one point in the cartoon the room flips, and suddenly Bimbo is walking on the ceiling similar to what happens to Kevin. There are A LOT of parallels to Skinamarink in this cartoon its insane. Maybe the Mom could've been involved in a cult and that's how the entity was unintentionally invited into the house? Idk just thought it was interesting. If you want, watch the animation to see what I mean. :)

I gotta say that I like that the monster of this movie is, in a way, how a kid sees an adult: a force of nature of sorts, beyond your control, that asserts it's dominance by taking things away.

I love the way the "monster" is depicted because when I was little I wasn't scared of "boogyman" or clowns or ghosts or anything like that. But the fear was still there. Especially when I couldn't sleep.

I think the mom is alive in the beginning, tells the son that "she loves him very much" and then hangs herself in the closet. The bones breaking sound is her neck snapping. That's why the boy is seen looking up, that's why the toys float up, there's so many shots of the ceiling. After a parents suicide, the remaining spouse will fall into a deep depression and the children suffer so much, especially if there is no outside help. I think this film is about not being able to escape the feeling of hopelessness (the doors disappear, the phone turns into a toy) after suffering a huge trauma as a child. The "demon" is a manifestation of all of that. The kids stay up late because the father has lost control, they're neglected, toys are everywhere, the demon tells the kids to do horrible things (some kids blame themselves) and the kids say "where's dad? maybe he went with mom" alluding that the dad might have killed himself too and left them all alone.

i think the poltergeist isn't exactly "evil" but morbidly curious. it has the mind of a child in the way it "wants to play". moving toys/furniture around, punishing kaylee by taking her face away, fussy that kevin refused to play, and attentively watching the cartoons. it keeps replaying the scene of the rabbit vanishing into thin air. over and over again. it tells kevin "it can do anything". by the end of the movie you see blood splatter on the carpet and then disappears. then it happens again. over and over again. it's a child playing with its toy.

the childlike naivety is portrayed really well; he reacts nearly the same way to seeing his sister faceless as he does a toy telephone in the dark. the girl not pushing for information at all when the father asks her to look under the bed twice because she still blindly trusts him and, even after his mysterious disappearance and the mother's mysterious appearance, she listens when the mother tells her to close her eyes.

The concept of innocent children being trapped in an infinite loop of torture because of a parent's mistake is impossibly upsetting. Even worse when you realize it can very easily be seen as a number of real life allegories.

There is nothing that could've broken my heart more, and yet still filled me with weird hope, than Kevin saying "Can we watch something happy?"

This movie perfectly captures the feeling you get when you're half asleep and that pile of clothes looks like a person and you can't move

I just finished the film and something I cant get out of my mind is one of the last scenes with the blood spatter on the floor ceiling. Because in the photographs of the children; one had a distorted face, Kaylee, and the other was missing a head. That spatter wasn't just Kevin getting hurt by the monster, it was the monster removing his head over and over and over.

The running gag of bringing out a gun every time Magic Spoon is mentioned is amazing.

I absolutely adore the detail of Kevin not knowing exactly what to do to comfort his sister so he thinks about what makes him happy and gets her juice.

I don't want to watch a 1:30 hour analog horror movie. BUT I do want to watch a 1 hour wendigoon breakdown about said analog horror movie