Parental Fears Get a Plodding New Voice in ‘Skinamarink’
The Blair Witch is coming from inside the house!
But I digress. As far as blank canvases go, Skinamarink provides a broad brush for audiences to paint their fears upon with many a flourish. The 1995 setting is an especially shrewd choice, with the usual benefit of removing digital devices from the equation amplifying the nighttime terrors of childhood that also contain whispers of a world still emerging from a post-COVID nightmare all its own.
