Skin examination

Skin examination

It is impressive that such an experimental film as skinarink managed to become a viral sensation. What’s even more impressive is that writer-director Kyle Edward Ball managed to make it, in his childhood home, for $15,000. The analog horror genre that has made a splash on YouTube for the past decade, spawning internet theories and mythologies out of sinister puzzles. skinarink it plays freely with narrative and form and revolves around a thematic blur that asks the audience to fill the gaps with their own fears.

The film’s success has already drawn comparisons to the 1999 film. The Blair Witch Projectbut this fundamental dislike of found footage led the public to plausibly believe that the footage was indeed genuine. skinarink it’s not trying to sell you on its authenticity: in fact, it draws attention to its own creation as the camera freezes, takes angles, Lego carpeted floors and the TV screen flashing old cartoons, with characters being blacked out . . somehow fuzzy or off-screen, and whose voices are whispers, sometimes indecipherable. The grainy, dark images we are invited to view are a cinematic impossibility, a point of view not narratively supported by the film or even indicative of a directorial authority. Although cinema, by its very nature, invites us to watch, skinarink he is adamant that we don’t, and he prevents us, sometimes frustratingly, from doing so, by keeping us in the dark.

It does skinarink Does it mean anything other than a fear experiment? It seems totally dependent on the viewer.

It’s a film that plays on our main fear of the dark. As we gaze into dark corridors and doorways, the shifting darkness captures our imagination and we begin to see familiar shapes in the film grain swimming in the darkness, we begin to see faces we can associate with harsh voices and whispers. In many ways, the film is reminiscent of the Legos that are scattered across the floor in the film, loose forms and partially built structures that we try to give a logical shape to but could easily become strange cages.

It does skinarink Does it mean anything other than a fear experiment? It seems entirely to the viewer, except for a few facts that Ball offers at the beginning. The first is that young Kevin (Lucas Paul) fell down the stairs and hit his head shortly before the events of the film. The second is that her mother disappeared before the story begins and Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault) does not want to talk about her. The child abuse, possibly even the murder, appears to have been committed by her mother, and we see this experience seen through the eyes of young children. But perhaps even that is too easy, a desperate attempt to dull the fear by assigning it a logic for which it does not exist, only childhood nightmares, recorded for posterity by some all-powerful dreamer.

Source: EmpireOnline

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