"Skinamarink," the experimental and somewhat plot-less horror film by Kyle Edward Ball that was just released on Shudder, is being lauded by many viewers as the scariest movie ever made. But for some, including myself, a movie that centers on waking up in your home as a child to find your parents missing feels more like a wish fulfilled than anything else.
Made with a budget of only $15,000, and filmed in the Edmonton, Alberta home Ball grew up in, "Skinamarink" premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in July of 2022, but really accumulated buzz when "hackers broke into the streaming platform of a European genre festival," according to Vulture, and a leak of the film began to circulate online prior to its official release.
