"Skinamarink is a unique horror movie that makes the most of atmosphere and tension to throw the audience into this disturbing supernatural experience."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 18, 2025

The atmosphere created in this film is more than just immediately unsettling. It feels, as the situations get darker and bleaker, almost as if we are watching something we have no business laying eyes on. Like a fever dream you can’t quite shake.

| Aug 4, 2024

Skinamarink is a vessel for the brain’s most frightening hallucinations. It’s not about what you actually see but what could be there.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

"Skinamarink", with its evocative visuals directly from our childhood horror dreams, is a standout among successfully disturbing found-footage films.

| Original Score: A- | May 8, 2024

Director Kyle Edward Ball, inspired by a more than striking debut, offers a work that immerses you in the singular, the disturbing, and the terrifying. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2023

Even though [Skinamarink] has cemented its place as one of my favourite releases of 2023, I almost feel I'd have better odds playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun than finding someone to recommend it to who'd actually enjoy it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2023

For those willing to lose themselves in its atmospheric horror, “Skinamarink” is a surreal mix of high strangeness, acute anxiety and reflective melancholy.

| Aug 23, 2023

The experimental horror film is full of throbbing rooms of darkness and told from an unreliable, distorted POV with a liminal dimensional rift throw in for good measure.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2023

... A hypnotic spell that sets the mood for anticipation above all else. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2023

With less than the cost of a new car, and using a crowdfunding campaign, Edward Ball has managed to release a truly terrifying film, managing to generate a palpable sensation of terror and tension in several viewers. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2023

It’s not the sort of film that can be casually turned on at a sleepover, nor will it please every crowd. However, for those who allow themselves to exist in the world of Skinamarink, it will be impossible to shake.

| Jul 24, 2023

Skinamarink work best as an experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

It challenges the viewer to confront the anxieties and uncertainties of childhood, forcing them to grapple with their own discomfort and fears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2023

Hit or miss depending on your disposition, there’s something hypnotically mesmerising about Skinamarink and it shows that Kyle Edward Ball has what it takes to be a filmmaker to watch out for in the future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2023

Skinamarink is a cool experience, with a lot of style and thought behind it, but there is not enough substance under the surface to become an all-time great - despite its reputation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2023

Skinamarink has a memorably distinctive nightmarish aura, and is a most intriguing horror film, if a flawed and frustrating vision.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2023

Gimmicky at times, atmospheric at others, Skinamarink gives shape to premeditated confusion, and through its editing establishes a very intelligent game that takes us back to childhood's terrors... [Full review in Spanish]

| May 5, 2023

The audaciousness of its premise grows increasingly tedious, working against the clear intent of making an "avant-garde" film that never lives up to what it set out to do... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 27, 2023

True, the film would've been better had it been shorter, but accomplishing such a sensory and immersive journey towards the most deeply rooted fears of childhood is a merit that more than compensates for any shortcoming. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 26, 2023

Its slow pace and constant tension make this a challenging film, but those who persevere will find it a disturbing and rewarding experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 26, 2023