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

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.

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.

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”

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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.

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".

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

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.

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 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 💀

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 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.

The scene where the policeman talks to Kevin on the phone still intrigues me. Even after reflecting on the meanings and seeing many other deeper details in the video I still couldn't unravel this scene. About Kevin's sister I imagine the part where the "entity" says "I can do anything, she didn't do as she was told, she called her mother and father and I took her mouth off". I believe that the parents of the two children were previously divorced, as the father seems to call the mother when Kevin falls down the stairs. So after the mother's death, the father, having custody of the sister, stops going to visit Kevin, and the sister even wanting to go see him is prevented. Thus losing his eyes, not being able to see him, and his mouth, not being able to talk to him. Another detail that was clarified to me watching the video is that the mother's face at the end can be quite scary because Kevin after the surgery would have difficulty identifying faces, and that's why he also asks twice what the name of that person saying to him to sleep. Perhaps so much time has passed that he no longer remembers his mother's face and voice.

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 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"

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.

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