Kevin says that he is downstairs and that the doors have disappeared, before dropping the phone. The operator then asks why he is whispering, if there is someone else in the room with him, and where he is in the house. The operator tells him to stay on the line, and that adults will be on their way to help. He whispers to the operator that he was cut with a knife and that he feels sick. Kevin picks up a telephone and calls 9-1-1. A drawer opens in the kitchen, and Kevin complies with the voice's command that he insert a knife into one of his eyes. After he returns upstairs, Kevin hears the mysterious voice calling to him again, telling him that it wants to play, as some of the toys in the house begin to disappear. The voice calls to Kevin, beckoning him into the basement, where he sees Kaylee, who no longer has eyes or a mouth. Lego bricks, VHS tapes, and other toys and objects are suspended against a wall. When Kevin wakes up, he calls out for her twice, but she does not reply.
Kevin falls asleep, and the voice calls to Kaylee again. Kaylee and Kevin then push the couch to block off the hallway from which the voice was calling to her. Kaylee returns downstairs and Kevin asks her what happened, only for her to respond with asking Kevin to help move the couch. She then looks at the pitch-black open closet and hears her mother say "There's someone here." From the closet she hears her mother calling out her name as well as moans of pain and breaking of bones. Her mother tells Kaylee that they love her and Kevin, and instructs her to close her eyes before vanishing. She then sees their mother sitting on the opposite side of the bed. In a bedroom, she sees their father, who tells her to look under the bed. Kaylee heads upstairs while Kevin remains downstairs. A mysterious voice calls to Kaylee from the darkness, telling her to come upstairs. They decide to place two buckets in the downstairs bathroom. She sees a doll on a bedroom ceiling, and Kevin returns to tell her that he is too frightened to use the toilet. Kaylee accompanies Kevin to the upstairs bathroom. Kevin shows Kaylee that the toilet in the downstairs bathroom has disappeared. Kevin then suggests that "maybe he went with mom," to which Kaylee replies “I don’t want to talk about mom.” Kevin asks Kaylee where she thinks their father is, to which she replies that she does not know. They hear an unexplained thumping noise and find a chair standing upside-down on the ceiling. They awaken to find the house still dark. Kevin suggests they sleep downstairs, where they watch cartoons on a television. Some time later, the two siblings wake up in the middle of the night to find that their father has seemingly disappeared and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are gradually vanishing as well. The father calls someone and tells them that the hospital didn't need to give stitches and he only hit his head. Kevin is then taken to a hospital and brought back home. In 1995, four-year-old Kevin injures himself in what his six-year-old sister Kaylee says is a sleepwalking episode. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who characterized it as drawing upon experiences of childhood fear, though it received a polarized response from audiences due to its controversial content. The film was a box office success, grossing $2 million over a $15,000 budget. Skinamarink received a theatrical release in the United States and Canada via IFC Midnight on January 13, 2023, and was released on the horror streaming service Shudder on February 2. Due to a technical issue, one of the festival platforms allowed a copy of the film to be leaked online the film then garnered attention on social media apps and websites like TikTok, Reddit, and Twitter, where it attracted word-of-mouth acclaim. It premiered at the 26th Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 25, 2022, and went on to screen at other film festivals, including some that offered at-home viewing options. Skinamarink was shot on digital in Ball's childhood home in Edmonton, Canada. His 2020 short film Heck was developed as a proof of concept for Skinamarink. Prior to the production of Skinamarink, Ball ran a YouTube channel where he would upload videos based on nightmares recounted by commenters. The film follows two children who wake up during the night to discover that they cannot find their father, and that the windows, doors, and other objects in their house are disappearing. Skinamarink is a 2022 Canadian experimental supernatural horror film written and directed by Kyle Edward Ball in his feature directorial debut.
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