Even on a specialty level, horror just works post-pandemic with the latest pop from a strong showing by a trio of films, Fear and Infinity Pool, released this weekend, and Skinamarink in week three.
Microbudget Horror ‘Skinamarink’ Creeps Onto 600+ Screens – Specialty Preview
14.01.2023 - 01:15 / deadline.com
Shudder and IFC Midnight are launching microbudget Skinamarink on a not-so-micro 629 screens, giving the viral horror pic a major push after a well-received premiere back at Fantasia-fest that just kept snowballing with strong reviews and social media love.
“I was over the moon. For a horror filmmaker in Canada, [Fantasia] is like getting a Cannes screening,” says first-time filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball about the leadup to this weekend’s buzzy specialty opening. He shot the $15k feature at his parents’ home in Edmonton, Canada.
In it, two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. “I’d had a nightmare when I was little. I was in my parents’ house, my parents were missing, and there was a monster. And lots of people have shared this exact same dream,” Ball tells Deadline. He should know. After film school and a stint selling video equipment, he launched a YouTube channel called Bitesized Nightmares where users described their night frights and he re-created them.
The idea of Skinamarink “fit like a glove,” he said. “I just started writing.”
It’s purposefully dark, low-fi, grainy. Not a traditional foot footage film but watching it’s no surprise that Ball calls The Blair Witch Project “one of my comfort movies.”
“I always say that horror is the most interesting, because horror has to keep reinventing itself in ways other genres don’t necessarily have to. Because it eats its young,” he says. Every good idea gets copied, “and people say they want to see something new.”
Other notable openings: Super presents France’s shortlisted Oscar submission Saint Omer by Alice Diop on 245 screens. The film world premiered at the Venice Film
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