Film Theory: The SCARIEST Movie You’ve Never Seen! (Skinamarink)

The crazy part about this is that it accurately reflects that there is no monster more terrifying than the ones we create in our own minds.

I was in a coma for a month and this is exactly what happened. I saw tvs shows playing, knew my parents were there, knew someone was drinking coffee, knew I was asleep and that something was wrong and that I was dying. It was wild. I had a collage of my family members and saw that too bc they were worried I wouldn’t recognize anyone.

It’s possible that kaylee “having her mouth taken away” means that she didn’t give up but her dad decided to pull the plug on Kevin and because he is the only legal guardian left; kaylee’s opinion is ignored. She loses her mouth.

The brain tumor comment is spot on. In the director’s short film “heck,” the inspiration for Skinamarink, Kevin tells his mom “I’m sorry I got cancer”

I was in a coma for 17 days in 2007, and I can tell you right now, coma dreams are seriously the most outrageous and weird dreams, BUT just as MatPat explains, somehow, you're able to "see" the real world even with your eyes closed while in a coma and somehow, your brain will interpret what you "see" in it's own special way. It's really weird, and hard to explain, but MatPat nails it.

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Even if the filmmaker came and said this is completely wrong it would be my head cannon. It's just too good.

I love all the theories about that movie. I like how open ended it is. Some people say it's a metaphor for child abuse and I think it also works. If the boy was not sleepwalking and had no tumors, but it was dad that pushed or threw him down the stairs. He ends up in a coma all the same. Mom is distraught and may have ended herself in guilt for not protecting her child. Leaving the sister Kaylee alone with a violent and absent dad, with no voice and no power of her own. "She wasn't listening, so I took her mouth".

Also if kevin is unconscious for that long of a time, maybe the things in the house disappearing are his memory forgetting those objects, i mean almost 2 years of not seeing my house would definitely make me forget some things.

It's worth mentioning that in the short film "Heck" by the same director, which was a proof of concept for "Skinamarink," the child main character at one point says, "I'm sorry I got cancer."

I actually watched this movie when it came out with my two friend and we were literally the only ones who were in the movie theatre and we were freaking out because we thought everyone else in the world disappeared 💀

I remember as a kid having a hyperactive imagination, thinking that doors were opening and shutting around me on their own, and generally being kind of terrified of windows and the bathroom. So when i clicked on this video, I didn't expect to weirdly relate to this.

My whole perspective on skinamarink is that it’s not supposed to have a cut and dry narrative, it’s like a nightmare, nothing makes sense outside the fact that it’s unpleasant. Like the hazy, cloudy memories of a kid waking up in the middle of the night, and their regular room suddenly feeling dangerous and unsafe.

I think the important thing about why this remains a good coma/dream theory (and movie) is the fact that this is literally the horror of a coma, not just "oh weird things are happening because you're in a coma" but "this is how scary a coma is"

For me, those moments where you know you’re in a dream and want to wake up, yet can’t, and then start being brainwashed into believing you’re in real life again as scenery changes and it taking you two more hours until actually waking up are pretty scary.

I think it’s about how 2 children can deal with abuse in negative but really dramatized movie fashion. I think for Kaylee, they shut down and chose to never speak about it and truly getting over her childhood abuse. And on the other hand the boy may have had their inner child metaphorically murdered looking like disemboweling literally removing the inner child, dooming him to repeat the cycle of abuse.

As a child who survived a brain tumor, I never really understood my illness and the ramifications it could have on people. This is an awakening to me.

I can just imagine MatPat going from script to script, recording theories for all 4 channels in his closet... Unbelievable Effort!!

I am simply made uncomfortable by this movie, it's not even that "scary", but it's like it brings back a flood of hazy memories from my childhood that I have either forgotten or just wanted to never remember, the screams and yelling is something that will never leave my mind and this movie is just a very well put psychological horror, and I love the fact that there was a song that we sang in our dance class when I was young and it went something like, "skjdamrinkadinkidink skidimaekido, I loooove you!" this probably has nothing to do with this though and was just a memory from my childhood, this movie seems like a bad dream that I dread ever having and just want to close my eyes and forget anything ever happend

This movie hits different when explained. My parents have been divorced since me and my sister were really young, and my mom has serve depression. And I remember when I cracked my head open one night while in a ice skating ring she was acting historical and crying. It feels so relatable cus I lowkey believe my mom could end it all at any time bruh