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Lucas Paul in Skinamarink (2022)

Review by watcher101

Skinamarink

2/10

May literally be the worst and most boring movie I ever saw

I'm not exaggerating here. This may very well be the worst movie I've ever seen and/or the most boring. This... I don't even know what to call this. Is it even really a movie? I actually had to watch it twice because I fell asleep in the middle of it the first time from sheer boredom. It seems like they were trying to do something like Paranormal Activity, but geez, talk about a massive fail. I mean, I get the creative choice and see what they were trying to do, but it was a horrible decision that didn't work.

Number one problem, the movie is boring. Literally nothing happens in it. There's no plot, no story, nothing. We barely even have characters, if you can even call them that. Literally 95% of the movie is just shots of furniture, toys, walls, doors, etc, while you occasionally hear a character talk in the background. You can barely even call it dialogue too, since there was so little of it that I'd be surprised if the script was more than 2 pages. And they all whisper literally all the time. Half the time they talk so quietly that they put subtitles just so you can tell what they're saying. They're not even conversations, just random sentences that occasionally form a verbal exchange every several minutes.

Other than that, the movie is just different shots of the house, that's it. You literally don't ever even see the characters, you just catch glimpses of their feet and the tops of their heads every so often. Other than that, you're just staring at different angles of the house where nothing happens. There will literally be scenes that are 2-3 minutes long of just a wall where nothing happens and no one says anything before the scene changes to somewhere else.

Truthfully, this movie shouldn't have been more than 15 minutes tops, yet it was painfully stretched out into an hour and forty minutes. There is actually a scene that goes on for about 3 minutes that shows some old school cartoon scene on loop that repeats about 20 times, and then nothing comes of it, the camera just changes to a different angle. You're just waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen, and it never does. And when anything does finally happen, and I use that term loosely, it's off-screen, so you don't even see anything.

There is just one thing that keeps this from me giving it a 1/10, and that's that it does have maybe 4 or 5 scenes, at most, that show some creepy imagery that puts you on the edge of your seat. Those scenes are effective in delivering a creep factor, but that's it. But nothing ever comes from them though. For example, there's a shot of the doorway into a dark room that shows the shadowy outline of a person inside it. The camera lingers there for about 2 minutes, then the scene changes and nothing happens. Or you see the back of a person's head and watch as they slowly fade away without moving for about 3 minutes, and then that's it, scene over, more staring at a chair or a wall or a pile of toys for another 8 minutes or so.

So when I say nothing happens, I mean nothing happens. There's no plot, nothing is ever explained, you have no idea what's going on. It's just minutes upon minutes of different angles of different rooms of the houses where you occasionally see someone's feet walk by or you see the top of their head, and some dialogue is whispered every so often. That's the whole movie. The highest praise I can give this movie is that it's like the build-up scene to a jump scare that drags on forever, but the jump scare simply never comes. Yes, that is meant to be a compliment, so you can probably imagine just how bad the movie is.

And if all this boring nonsense wasn't enough, the movie just ends. There's no beginning to the movie, it just starts, and no end. It's just, here's a bunch of random scenes with some characters whispering every so often, ok movie over. Save yourself the trouble and avoid this snooze-fest.
  • watcher101
  • Mar 13, 2023

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