Comparison Of Skinamarink And The Shining

Skinamarink is a supernatural horror movie that came out in 2022. It follows a young boy and his sister as they navigate their way through their dark and unfamiliar house one night alone, unable to find their parents, and with a mysterious entity whispering to them all the while. It has been praised as a new and original story, with an eerie style of storytelling. While Skinamarink does use a very unique style, it does not use any new or particularly original themes, and other movies like it include Oculus, The Shining, and Poltergeist.

Firstly, Oculus is similar to Skinamarink because they both share the theme of children being put into a horrifying situation and being unable to call for outside help. In Skinamarink, all the doors and windows

However, the neighbours do not believe Kaylie when she tells them this, and when she attempts to phone for help, the evil mirror has taken control of the phone, rendering it useless. Both films share this theme of children being put into dangerous situations and unable to call for outside help.

Furthermore, Skinamarink and The Shining share a similar theme as well, and that theme is children being put into situations they don't fully understand, but that they know are scary. The children in Skinamarink are about four or five years old. Danny Torrance from The Shining is five years old. In Skinamarink, making the children so young is something of a story-telling device, because the story is told from the children's perspective, and they don't really understand what's going on, so it gives the storyteller the liberty to make nonsensical and ambiguous things happen. In The Shining, the story alternates between perspectives, and while the

The most notable similarity is they both use a television as an important motif in the story. In Poltergeist, a family is tormented by poltergeists, and their young daughter, Carol Anne, is afflicted as well. She is seen fixated on a glowing television screen. This image of a young girl with her hands pressed against a television screen has become synonymous with the horror genre. And in Poltergeist, Carol Anne's fixation with the TV screen is cause for alarm. However, the fixation that the children in Skinamarink have on their television is somewhat different. They turn to the TV for comfort and protection throughout the night, using it as a sort of home base. However, it's still being manipulated by an evil entity. At one point, a cartoon they are watching begins to loop the same scene over and over and over again. The same thing happens later in the movie, although this time, blood is seen splattering a ceiling over and over and over again. Even though the children see the TV as a source of comfort (near the end of the film, the boy asks if he and his sister can "watch something happy"), it's still being manipulated by the supernatural entity that's stalking them. Just like in Poltergeist. And while Skinamarink seems to focus more on the horror of being a child in danger, unable to call for help, and unable to fully understand what's happening, this particular bit with the television preys more on