Skinamarink (2022)

Skinamarink
DirectorKyle Edward Ball
BudgetC$15,000
Box office$2.1 million

Plot

In 1995, four-year-old Kevin injures himself in an incident that his six-year-old sister Kaylee attributes to sleepwalking. Kevin is taken to a hospital and brought back home. The siblings wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father has disappeared and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are gradually vanishing. Kevin suggests they sleep downstairs, where they watch cartoons on television. They awaken to find the house still dark, hear an unexplained thumping noise, and find a chair upside-down on the ceiling. Kevin then suggests that their father "went with mom," but Kaylee requests that they do not discuss their mother.

The toilet in the downstairs bathroom disappears. On their way to the upstairs bathroom, Kaylee sees a doll on a bedroom ceiling and Kevin ends up too frightened to use the toilet, so they decide to place two buckets in the downstairs bathroom. A mysterious voice calls to Kaylee from the darkness and tells her to come upstairs, where she sees their father in a bedroom. He tells her to look under the bed, but she does not see anything. She then sees their mother sitting on the bed. Her mother says that she and their father love Kaylee and Kevin, and instructs her to close her eyes before vanishing. Kaylee looks at the open closet and hears her mother say "there's someone here". From the closet, she hears her mother calling her name as well as moans of pain and bones breaking. She is startled by a hand reaching around a corner and panics.

Kaylee runs downstairs, where Kevin helps her push the couch to block off the hallway from which the voice was calling her. When Kevin falls asleep, the voice calls Kaylee again. When Kevin wakes up, he sees that Kaylee is gone and toys and objects are suspended against a wall. The voice beckons Kevin into the basement, where he sees Kaylee, who no longer has eyes or a mouth. The voice tells him it wants to play as some of the toys begin to disappear. A drawer opens in the kitchen, and Kevin complies with the voice's command to insert a knife into one of his eyes.

Kevin calls 9-1-1 and tells the operator he was hurt and feels sick. The operator tells him to stay on the line and that adults are on their way. Kevin informs the operator that the doors have disappeared before dropping the phone, which then turns into a Chatter Telephone toy. The voice claims responsibility for this, telling Kevin that it can "do anything". It says that Kaylee disobeyed it and demanded to see her parents, so it took away her mouth.

The voice tells Kevin to come upstairs. Holding a flashlight, Kevin finds himself on the ceiling. He walks into a bedroom which becomes a void, and a dollhouse is shown sitting on a pile of toys in a seemingly infinite hallway as onscreen text reads "572 days". Kaylee is seen sitting on the bed; her body slowly fades away, followed by her head. Photos are shown of people with their faces either missing or distorted. Kevin cries out as blood splatters onto the floor, then disappears and splatters repeatedly. He asks Kaylee if they can watch "something happy", followed by an apparition of a door. In the dark, an unidentifiable face appears over him in his bed and tells him to go to sleep. Kevin asks the face what its name is twice. It does not respond.

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