Skinamarink review: low-budget film delivers big-time horror

Writer/Director Kyle Edward Ball’s microbudget feature debut Skinamarink earned critical accolades during its festival run before becoming a viral sensa...

The creepiest moments in the horror genre often come down to a single question provoked by slowly dawning terror; a certain degree, strategic or otherwise, o...

Streaming now on Shudder, Kyle Edward Ball's Skinamarink is effectively creepy and innovative, but meanders a bit. Read our review here.

Canadian horror exercise requires patience and imagination to help fill in the blanks.

'Skinamarink' from filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball is an unnerving exploration of death, childhood, and the house you grew up in. Read our review.

Read Empire's review of the viral lo-fi horror.

SKINAMARINK is a new horror movie in theaters – on Shudder later. It works in awakening emotions rather than storytelling. Movie Review >

Kyle Edward Ball's $15,000 word-of-mouth horror hit about two kids trapped alone in their house uses its tiny budget to its advantage.

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...like The Blair Witch Project if it had been simmered, alongside Poltergeist, in a pot of slow cinema.

An immersive horror movie that demands to be seen in a theater, director Kyle Edward Ball's 'Skinamarink' drops the viewer into a disorienting exploration of...

A young brother and sister face their worst fears in Kyle Edward Ball's inventive microbudget horror.

Kyle Edward Ball’s first feature is strikingly original but seemingly unfinished.

Two children are trapped in a shape-shifting home in this spookily impenetrable horror experiment.

Directed by Kyle Edward Ball, we review the horror film Skinamarink (2023), which does not contain spoilers.

The best parts of Skinamarink convey that unsettled space between nightmare and reality that feels legitimately dangerous.

One of the pleasures and indeed responsibilities of movie reviewing is remembering the lesson of a Hans Christian Andersen folk tale. Some folks review films...

Kyle Edward Ball’s low-budget Canadian horror flick has some online fans calling it the next Paranormal Activity. But it’s a different animal.

If you are a Canadian of a certain age, or perhaps are familiar with this particular children's tune, prepare to be scarred for life. Well, I could reall...

Kyle Edward Ball transports audiences back to those unmistakable waking nightmares of wandering around households while mommies and daddies slumber.

The idiosyncratic horror film makes use of one of the scariest devices: a story with more questions than answers.

“1995” declares a 1970s-style title card in the opening minutes of Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink, a film presented in fake grain filters meant to sugg...

Kyle Edward Ball's demanding but visionary horror film is like a demon puzzle lit by a cathode-ray tube.

Kyle Edward Ball’s viral indie sensation has an analog aesthetic but was very much born from the internet.