Skinnymadinky

It's a low budget horror movie that went viral when the movie leaked. And it's amazing how low budget it is!

Two kids are at home. Their parents disappear. The doors disappear. Weird things happen. Very slowly. The End.

The camera work is really weird. The shots are either really low or really high, and often quite tight on things. There are very slow pans as if it is a physical panning camera, and at other times it's a child's POV. Which helps the cost (see below) but... it, plus the weird film texture layed on, is just weird. There's no justification for it being real cameras or what. I don't get it.

Looking it up, it's supposed to be about the strangeness of childhood, which goes to explaining the strange slow plot and the weird angles and distorted views and... but I did find that out by looking it up. I don't think it came across in the movie. If you need external information, the movie is missing something.

And it is missing a lot. Actors for example. There are a couple of them, but most everything takes place off camera, with sounds and dialogue. Makes it real easy to film and add things in if you don't actually have anything happening on the screen. The most animated (sic) things are cartoons, and they deliberately call out the cartoons are public domain ones from archive.org! Now that's budget saving!

Another thing missing is a soundtrack. I have the rather unusual opinion that you shouldn't need to lather on music to tell the story, and this makes that point dramatically. Admittedly this is horror and silence helps build the tension, but it does show you can get what you want just from the atmosphere without needing to signal what you fail to convey via sounds like orchestra hits.

(Speaking of hits, there was one successful jump scare.)

This movie is Indie As Fuck, and I can only hope we don't see a splurge of movies coming out emulating this style, because, no sir, I don't like it.

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