@Velaethia unfortunately your dead on👻 Been living with Severe Depression n anxiety n PTSD from all the horror that I've seen n lived n the past 45 yrs. I had Night Terror's all through grade school which didn't help.
It’s possible that kaylee “having her mouth taken away” means that she didn’t give up but her dad decided to pull the plug on Kevin and because he is the only legal guardian left; kaylee’s opinion is ignored. She loses her mouth.
My whole perspective on skinamarink is that it’s not supposed to have a cut and dry narrative, it’s like a nightmare, nothing makes sense outside the fact that it’s unpleasant. Like the hazy, cloudy memories of a kid waking up in the middle of the night, and their regular room suddenly feeling dangerous and unsafe.
Good take on the movie, when i was a kid I'd wake up in the middle of the night and everything and everything would unsettle me. And this film gave that unsettling feeling again
@@jakoski see that’s why artsy fartsy movies like this are a double edged sword. On one hand you’ve got people thinking the movie is purely conceptual, entirely up to our own interpretation, and it’s fun to come up with our own theories or just appreciate the art for what it is. Then we find out that there IS a real meaning behind it, and the creator won’t tell us the meaning (which is pretentious in itself). How is that fun at all? It either has meaning or it doesn’t, the director can’t have it both ways
It definitely does have a narrative. I've seen a lot of people describing the movie as not having a plot, but I disagree. There is a clear series of events that happen in an order that takes the film to an end.
I was in a coma for 17 days in 2007, and I can tell you right now, coma dreams are seriously the most outrageous and weird dreams, BUT just as MatPat explains, somehow, you're able to "see" the real world even with your eyes closed while in a coma and somehow, your brain will interpret what you "see" in it's own special way. It's really weird, and hard to explain, but MatPat nails it.
Also if kevin is unconscious for that long of a time, maybe the things in the house disappearing are his memory forgetting those objects, i mean almost 2 years of not seeing my house would definitely make me forget some things.
@@CakeNCoke4evermaybe not forgetting but it’s like a he doesn’t use them anymore so his brain doesn’t register them in his “house” anymore (mental house, I guess)
@@inkynebulato be fair, there’s a phenomenon in dreams that I can’t quite remember the name of atm where your brain just can’t construct human faces. It’ll try, you’ll recognize them to some degree, but if you were to try and focus on the face it would just be an amalgamation of things that don’t quite make sense. It’s the same for looking into mirrors in dreams. If he’s unconscious, he is technically “in a dream”, hence as he slips entirely into a coma the faces would start to distort
I think the important thing about why this remains a good coma/dream theory (and movie) is the fact that this is literally the horror of a coma, not just "oh weird things are happening because you're in a coma" but "this is how scary a coma is"
Exactly! What bothers people about coma/dream theories is how it complelty invalidates all the events They never happened,there were never stakes, etc But onthis case,the whole narrative and horror comes from being stuck in such a situation forever as a very young child so it works because the movie itself gives clues and hints that make a theoey like that make sense
I love all the theories about that movie. I like how open ended it is. Some people say it's a metaphor for child abuse and I think it also works. If the boy was not sleepwalking and had no tumors, but it was dad that pushed or threw him down the stairs. He ends up in a coma all the same. Mom is distraught and may have ended herself in guilt for not protecting her child. Leaving the sister Kaylee alone with a violent and absent dad, with no voice and no power of her own. "She wasn't listening, so I took her mouth".
It's worth mentioning that in the short film "Heck" by the same director, which was a proof of concept for "Skinamarink," the child main character at one point says, "I'm sorry I got cancer."
I think "her mouth was taken away" means she stopped talking. Going inside yourself can be a trauma response, especially for a child. Because he could no longer hear her, it was like she wasn't there anymore.
@@anitathakur9340 Realistically orphanage or going back to her father. But it’s irrelevant to know specifically what as it all just comes off the same to the main character’s perspective, the comatose boy.
I was in a coma for a month and this is exactly what happened. I saw tvs shows playing, knew my parents were there, knew someone was drinking coffee, knew I was asleep and that something was wrong and that I was dying. It was wild. I had a collage of my family members and saw that too bc they were worried I wouldn’t recognize anyone.
I remember as a kid having a hyperactive imagination, thinking that doors were opening and shutting around me on their own, and generally being kind of terrified of windows and the bathroom. So when i clicked on this video, I didn't expect to weirdly relate to this.
When I’m trying to get to my room at night I still try to avoid windows and mirrors because when I look at them it feels like something’s moving nearby
I use to babysit this amazing little kid. He was playful, energetic, and unbelievably kind. One day, I was told by his parents he had a brain tumor. I watched the strain that having a young child, a toddler, that has cancer can have on a family. Thankfully, I also was able to see the grit and determination of two parents and a young boy to fight all day everyday and, eventually, make a full recovery. This theory hit close to home. I need to reach out to those guys. I haven't talked to them in years. Listen to what Matt said at the end of the video. Hug your family. Tell them you love them. But even more than that, if you care about someone, let them know. This is a harsh and unforgiving world. Never stop fighting.
I also knew I kid who had a brain tumour. When I was in year 5 he was in year 3. He went from walking with a cane to crutches to being a wheelchair. The doctors went to do an operation on him. They gave him 50/50. He did not survive. It was a very small primary school with only about 120-130 students so most people knew him. No parent should EVER bury their child. Edit: Shiver, you said to never stop struggling. That is a BAD thing.
If it had been me, I'd have recognised the audio but wouldn't be able to remember where I'd heard it, and would be frustrated for ages until I found the clip. It happens all the time to me.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicksthankyou so much for correcting them - i don’t think i would ever be able to sleep at night knowing that someone added an extra n into canon
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I kind of imagined Kaylee’s mouth being taken away as their parents telling her to be quiet while in the hospital. Now that I think about it, I think the emphasis is on “I TOOK her mouth away”. She can’t speak, not because her parents told her not to, but because the dad won’t go to visit anymore, therefore Kaylee can’t visit either. The dad took Kaylee’s mouth away.
I heard once that, having family and friends talk to someone while they're in a coma actually helps them get out of it. They can hear what is going on outside, they just can't acknowledge it. So, the voice saying "She wanted to be with mommy, so I took her mouth away," could be Kevin's brain interpreting her not talking to him anymore and leaving Luke everyone else.
I actually watched this movie when it came out with my two friend and we were literally the only ones who were in the movie theatre and we were freaking out because we thought everyone else in the world disappeared 💀
Wendigoon wrote an hour long video essay on this film that was fantastic for those looking for a deeper dive, but team theorist always comes through with a fantastic video
I think the coma and brain tumor theory made more sense than the mom-turning-into-demon theory in the horror film skinamarink. Here's why: First of all, the mom-turning-into-demon theory was too cliché and predictable. It's been done so many times before in other horror movies that it lost its impact and originality. Second of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more realistic and plausible. It explained why the protagonist had weird visions and nightmares, why he couldn't remember his past, and why he felt guilty about his mom's death. It also added a twist to the story that made it more interesting and surprising. Third of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more emotional and tragic. It showed how the protagonist was struggling with his own mind and reality, how he loved his mom despite her flaws, and how he had to face his own mortality. It made me feel more sympathy for him and his situation than the mom-turning-into-demon theory did.
@@スガル I definitely agree with coma theory, but I think wendigoon went way more in depth about how the film was created and filmed and what makes it such a good analog horror. Team theory wins on the theory for sure, but I think wendigoon talks a lot more about the perspective and artistic making of the film. So people should watch both
This is so dark, I feel bad for Matt Pat having to watch this AS A PARENT! This story is the kind I would cry myself to sleep to. Props to you for making this theory and not crying while recording
For me, those moments where you know you’re in a dream and want to wake up, yet can’t, and then start being brainwashed into believing you’re in real life again as scenery changes and it taking you two more hours until actually waking up are pretty scary.
For most of my life, I've used a trick I've heard of to wake up from dreams with a 100% success rate. You lay down wherever you are in the dream, in the position you normally would sleep in, and then close your eyes IN THE DREAM and for some reason it makes you wake up. And it doesn't seem to matter what side you're sleeping on. Even if I'm being chased, this works. I don't see much if anything while closing my eyes in the dream, but I can still hear things. An alternative I sometimes use is to make anyone in the dream really pissed off so that they start attacking me and the world starts warping and melting into myself, which always wakes me up.
I've actually had a dream like that. It kept repeating the same scenario over and over again everytime I woke up. I would wake up, look at a clock, go into a living room be asked or told to clean something and do it all over again. Eventually, the dream shifted to a park and I sat on a bench and was looking at my phone but kept getting frustrated cuz it wasn't right. And then someone sat next to me and I don't remember what they said but I finally properly woke up and didn't sleep the rest of the night. Another time, which this is only loosely related, I was having a pretty bad dream and didn't want to deal with the dreams consequences so I told myself I want to wake up. And so I did. Man, that was the most trippy thing ever, watching as I was standing up straight and it all faded strangely into me laying down on the bed as I forced myself awake. The only time I managed to lucid dream and I used it to force myself awake 😮💨
I mean... IDK if the thing of pinching yourself has been prover right, since I also heard people saying it just doesn't work, but if you KNOW you're dreaming, and I have to mention that you have to be 100% absolutely sure, because you should ABSOLUTELY NEVER do this IRL... Your brain cannot imagine or comprehend what it's like to be dead, so if you die in a dream, you wake up. If you truly are desperate to wake up and can't, you COULD commit suicide in your dream to basically force yourself to wake up... Again, it's a bad idea, because if you're not dreaming, then you just die... But it IS possible. If someone knows a safer way, try that instead. Apart from that, I only had one or two lucid dreams in my life and I also don't even remember most of my dreams. I guess I'm just one of those people
I remember having either a series of dreams or just a really long dream that had me waking up living through the morning and then waking up again and again and it was just exhausting because it did end up taking like 2-3 hours to finish from the time where I should have actually woken up.
IM SHOCKED that this is being covered by you guys! I love this movie but I found it absolutely horrifying. I was really hoping y’all would cover this, I just watched it a day ago.
@@dabmaster1040 I enjoyed it for what it was but you should know what ur getting into. As interesting as it is it is very tedious at points… you get from it what ur willing to put in. I’d say watch at home, lights off no distractions. It’s definitely flawed but worth experiencing to form your own opinion on.
@@dabmaster1040 You really have to immerse yourself if you’re gonna watch it. If you really like analog horror you’ll probably enjoy it, but there is a lot of movie that is just static shots. I recommend it for sure if you’re into that stuff and have a decent attention span
@@dabmaster1040 No. I gave it 20 minutes before I turned it off. It was extremely boring. It was basically like switching from Camera to Camera like Five Nights at Freddy’s but nothing was happening.
I think it’s about how 2 children can deal with abuse in negative but really dramatized movie fashion. I think for Kaylee, they shut down and chose to never speak about it and truly getting over her childhood abuse. And on the other hand the boy may have had their inner child metaphorically murdered looking like disemboweling literally removing the inner child, dooming him to repeat the cycle of abuse.
I think the biggest horror of this is that all the pain could have been avoided if the doctors monitored his heart rate during the procedures. They could have seen he was in pain and administered morphine to ease it.
@@arafe.1012 yeah but the alternative is near-death level pains for a child. I'd rather come out addicted to morphine than go through that much pain and have no one be aware of it.
It seems like they forget they could just... End his misery far quicker by letting go his oxygen or something like that. I know it might be considered sin and all, but would you dare to let your patient suffered and forced them to be alive even though they are already going to pass the death line anyway?
This movie hits me on a deep visceral level, really captures the feeling of listlessness and naivety from the perspectives of children in an abusive household with a spooky spin
Did you watch Matpat's video?? He said it was a story about love. No abuse in the story. Plot: kid has a brain tumor Kid falls while sleepwalking Kid goes into coma Kid stays in coma for 2 years and multiple surgeries Dad can't emotionally handle it and parents divorce Mom ends her own life in grief Sister is transferred Kid dies after 500 or so days Zero abuse in the entire story
@@rayzerot yea that’s one theory. You don’t know for sure if it’s fact cuz you haven’t watched the film. I’m guessing OP has and came to his own conclusion
I don’t get scared by movies easily but I saw the trailer in theaters and the increasing volume of “In this house” and the flashing of different scenes genuinely almost gave me a panic attack
That's why i think this movie is so great for horror, it really captures the feeling of a child who was feeling in danger in a place that was supposed to be the safe.
This movie hits different when explained. My parents have been divorced since me and my sister were really young, and my mom has serve depression. And I remember when I cracked my head open one night while in a ice skating ring she was acting historical and crying. It feels so relatable cus I lowkey believe my mom could end it all at any time bruh
I understand the feeling. It's so uneasy when you feel your parent is on the brink, even if as a child you didn't understand the concept. My mom attempted a couple of times but as a kid I didn't understand. My eldest sister always convinced us everything was fine.
Take this is as you wish but remember that at least to our best knowledge, you only get one life. Be there for your mom you’ll never know when it could be gone
Straight goosebumps. I was 4 in 1995 when the movie takes place, and my parents house had an identical layout. My wife was unfazed, but I was super jumpy for a few days after watching this.
Honestly, I love this theory so much. I think my favorite theories are the one's where Mat analyzes indie horror movies and games. There's something so fresh and interesting about them, and they often explore topics we haven't seen before. Truly fantastic. Please do more like this!!
i love that the theorist team actually does give us incredibly dark theories like this one. im not a youtuber but i can imagine that this video would get demonetized cause of the suicide being covered and they still do it. truly an amazing group of theorists
This movie triggered my PTSD soooo badly. I tell people this is a perfect example of what it feels like to be a child in an unsafe home. I openly sobbed at the "I got you some juice." line because that felt so much like those moments when my brother and I were trapped in a house with a monster down the hall and nothing we could do about it but try to take care of each other in the only ways a child can. I couldn't tell you what the intended story was, just that it was very real and very raw for someone that survived child abuse.
I love how no matter how scary his theories are, he makes everything go back to normal and making us happy by saying... "That's just a theory... A FILM THEORY!" Edit: MOM, I'M FAMOUS!!!!
This theory made it from being one of the scariest movies to being an amazing dark drama in like 15 minutes. And I'm almost having the guts for it now to watch it.
I just watched it last night, fell asleep, then continued where I fell asleep today. Somehow I think me drifting in and out of conciseness for some of the quiet parts added to the effect lol
The disappearing/manipulation of objects and cartoons on a loop could also symbolize how he was slowly loosing his memory and forgetting or misremembering details of certain things because of the tumor
skinamarink really takes you back to the messed up nightmares you'd have as a kid, just makes you feel their terror all over again without all the graininess and forgetfulness you'd usually have after waking up. for that accurate depiction alone it's one of the most terrifying films i've ever seen.
As someone who lost a child to cancer, this movie and subsquent theory hits super hard. NGL, im crying right now. I wish I could give my son a hug one more time Edit: Thank you all for your responses. I’m certain he’s in a better place but it still hurts when I get reminded. Thank you all.
I choose to believe that Matpat secretly has 4 different versions of his jacket in all off his channels colors, sitting alone in his closet, recording his scripts whilst changing jackets everytime he changes channels
I think Skinamarink is about child abuse. The dad (the epicenter and main voice of the demon) hurts his wife, so she leaves (or probably kills herself), abandoning the kids with the monster. They can't escape. They're stuck in the house with this cruel being, their only respite TV, Legos, and each other. Before the movie kicks off, the dad hurts Kevin very recognizably and takes him to the hospital under the guise that "he fell down the stairs". He wants to silence Kaylee, who is trying to tell people the truth, and wants Kevin to forget what he saw
I know this may be weird to say, but I like how Skinamarink makes you slow down and work hard to watch it. It feels like a reaction to a trend in modern movies where everything is big and fast and has to be immediately explained (even things that don't really need an explanation).
@@dragonfruit8884 This feels like what I say to people complaining about video games, hah! But it's good to see such a movie gain mainstream recognition regardless.
@@HatredInTheFlesh a movie doesn't neeed to be big and fast and explain everything immediately, skinnamarink is very slow (speeds up eventually) and explains nothing, you have to watch carefully and come up with your own story and people love it (to be fair there seems to be an equal amount of people who hate it so)
The scene where the policeman talks to Kevin on the phone still intrigues me. Even after reflecting on the meanings and seeing many other deeper details in the video I still couldn't unravel this scene. About Kevin's sister I imagine the part where the "entity" says "I can do anything, she didn't do as she was told, she called her mother and father and I took her mouth off". I believe that the parents of the two children were previously divorced, as the father seems to call the mother when Kevin falls down the stairs. So after the mother's death, the father, having custody of the sister, stops going to visit Kevin, and the sister even wanting to go see him is prevented. Thus losing his eyes, not being able to see him, and his mouth, not being able to talk to him. Another detail that was clarified to me watching the video is that the mother's face at the end can be quite scary because Kevin after the surgery would have difficulty identifying faces, and that's why he also asks twice what the name of that person saying to him to sleep. Perhaps so much time has passed that he no longer remembers his mother's face and voice.
im happy matpat enjoyed this film and made a theory episode on it. its a really haunting and genius film that like matpat said wasnt for everyone. the coma theory is solid and what ive heard elsewhere. its crazy how such an abstract film can make you empathize so much with this family and the children
this is a pretty unique take on the coma theory! i love skinamarink and how everyone's takes on the story can differ. I like Wendigoon's interpretation most
I've never heard of Wendigoon, I'll need to look it up and see their idea, my take away was very different from MatPats, I thought it was about Child Abuse but maybe I'm just projecting
I think the coma and brain tumor theory made more sense than the mom-turning-into-demon theory. Here's why: First of all, the mom-turning-into-demon theory was too cliché and predictable. It's been done so many times before in other horror movies that it lost its impact and originality. Second of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more realistic and plausible. It explained why the protagonist had weird visions and nightmares, why he couldn't remember his past, and why he felt guilty about his mom's death. It also added a twist to the story that made it more interesting and surprising. Third of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more emotional and tragic. It showed how the protagonist was struggling with his own mind and reality, how he loved his mom despite her flaws, and how he had to face his own mortality. It made me feel more sympathy for him and his situation than the mom-turning-into-demon theory did.
@@Werewolf914 i absolutely love the child abuse theory and i think that its the best metaphor to the doors and windows disappearing and having no escape from an abusive household. but Wendigoon’s video is long but worth the watch! he points out a ton of things i haven’t noticed before
@@スガル im glad you like the theory so much! the director said that skinamarink was heavily inspired by 70s horror, which would explain the now cliche possession horror that was popular back then! but i definitely dont think that a demon possession story takes away from originality of this film. i think that wendigoon’s theory make the most sense to explain a lot of the scary things we see. horror is about fear of the unknown, so i don’t usually like going with the most logical scientific explanation and i think having the monster be an all powerful demon that can control time and torture kids is much scarier than the coma theory. this film for me is meant to scare the viewer so heavily that they feel like a scared little kid again, just like kevin and kaylee. that makes the film much more emotional and compelling to me!
I think the sister stays around in his mind longer because we are closer to our siblings than anyone else. With so many shared experiences they are the most like us especially when we are young children.
as someone who experienced child neglect and abuse at a young age, skinnamarink is the most scarily accurate portrayal of these horrors. i watched this movie and saw a reflection of my experiences, truly terrifying. although this movie is hard to watch, it is easily one of my favorite films of all time.
I agree. The moment that stood out to me was how Kevin goes back to watching tv after being stabbed in the eye. That way that after terror and pain, there’s nothing left to do but go quiet and numb out. When he turned on the tv again it made my heart hurt. It was familiar how after any loud noise, the kids would go quiet while the sounds of cartoons still played. The contrast of the silly sounds and music with the tense silence. At any moment, the fun can be over and the peace all gone.
i dont handle horror well but i like them conceptually and consuming them second hand through analyses like this. its always neat to see how effective horror is at abstracting and communicating themes like family collapse and neglect, vs just presented in say a "high brow" drama, which would likely just present abject sadness. reminds me of the metamorphosis (not really horror, i know) but if it was about a kid and not a dad.
Of all the "shocking" "horrifying" "deep" horror out there, this one hits differently. This is far beyond a lot of the games Mat has reviewed in all these years. It kinda makes FNAF look like Birdemic.
I had thought the mom had made a deal with a demon to save the son at the beginning of the movie, not realizing what horrors it was going to bring on the family in exchange for the son's life after falling and hitting his head, but this theory makes a lot of sense! Great video!
I am so glad my coma didn’t have such horrors to it.. I just remember feeling very loved and knowing family was around me. I felt at peace. Honestly I sort of felt dead, but in a peaceful way. I remember family being there every day, and I think ultimately that’s what pulled me out.
@@roguereaper8796 it moves slowly, you don’t get to see what’s there but it pushes this sense of fear and claustrophobia into your mind, then you hear the mother’s bones snapping and the sister disappears. The whole thing feels so personal and so dark, and you have no control over anything, and at the end the kid dies and this thing that has been chasing you for hours kills him.
I am more with abused children in a dysfunctional house theory. As a child that lived in that chaos I felt it very close to home. It was the first thing I thought was happening after the mom explained they were separating…
MatPat is such a genuine genius. The way he can see the depth in these things and make a coherent breakdown of his interpretation (and potentially the actual story in this case) is so impressive. 10/10
He has an entire team of people who write his scripts. He doesn't "see the depth" in things so much as pays the right people to do it for him then reads a script.
MatPat actively ruins the cultural perception of a good amount of the media he reviews simply by being overconfident in his analysis and having a following of mostly gullible children who assume everything he says is fact.
As someone who suffers from C-PTSD this movie PERFECTLY explains our nightmares, fears, and hopelessness in the face of the abyss or lack thereof. But I also try not to be to harsh on those who don't like the movie because in all seriousness, this is a fate worse than death and I'm so happy alot of people don't understand. They think it's dumb and we envy that ability to not know what we do now.
I wish I could've remained in my bubble of bliss, but now I fear every second my body could fail em at any moment, For a few days before my dumb ape brain forgets and I go back to being oblivious
If you think about it, this film is terrifying in that it strikes deep. Not just the trauma and heartbreak, but the fact that this film literally forced you to be afraid of what's lurking in the dark. I really wasn't expecting that kind of warning to show up in this theory, but for a coma to last that long, and the impacts that came with it, this really illustrates the damage that gets spirals out of control.
This actually hits kinda close to home. My mom has a close friend whose son had a brain tumor when he was a preteen. The treatments were difficult and left him with stunted growth. A few years ago, as an adult, his tumor came back. Just before he went in for his first surgery, he had a seizure and died. His sister and parents were both devastated.
That was roughly what my late uncle went through. Though, by the sound of it, the son of your mom's friend got a few somewhat normal years of life; I obviously don't know those details, but if you want to share more, I'm here to listen. My uncle's case, it was from a TBI that didn't get treated in time. He hit his head on a rock about a block away from the house we lived in. That spot in the neighborhood was somewhat obscured from view by a lot of trees-we lived in Louisiana for the first half of my childhood, but this was still a good decade before I came along-and the early 70s was way before the age of knowing where your kid was all the time. Anyway, the story goes that he didn't show up back at the house for dinner, so they went out frantically looking for him. When they finally found him, and got him to the hospital, the pressure from swelling in his skull had already killed off a lot of brain tissue. One of his surgeries was to remove a piece about the size of baseball. That, and the rest of the damage, effectively froze his mind's development for the rest of his life; and it took years of various kinds of rehabilitation to get him to a point where he didn't need constant care. I grew up living in the same houses as him, since we both lived with my grandparents. His seizures were the other outcome. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a petit mal until I was an adult. They were frequent, violent, and the aftermath of each one was easily a 8 hours of recovering his senses. You might imagine that a preteen me being put in charge of a 30 odd year old man-with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old and extremely active epilepsy-when the adults wanted to leave the house was incredibly traumatizing for all parties involved. This never stopped, and it wasn't even the worst thing from my childhood, but I still have a lot of sympathy for the fact that he never got to live a real life. He quietly passed away when I was in my late 20s. I got called and yelled at to get over to my grandparents house, and had to manage the entire situation. I wanted to know what the actual cause of death was, but no one else really wanted to know why, so no autopsy for answers. I know my biofamily was resentful of the situation and, despite losing their minds in grief, I also think they felt it was a mercy and an absolution for them. Anyway, that was more words than I ever thought I'd say about that whole part of my past with my biofam.
@@k4rec4 it is what it is. But, yeah, everything about my uncle's missed opportunities because of an accident, the situations that happened around him because of it, the suffering that everyone involved endured, and his early death are filled with existential sorrow.
That’s so sad, I actually started crying. Even if it’s not real. Poor baby stuck in his own mind all while his family falls apart grieving him 😢😢 Scary too because it’s realistic
My 3yr old almost died this January. Spent two weeks in the hospital, as a father I felt helpless and terrified. My son wanted so desperately to go home and see his brothers who were barred from the hospital. Poor guy wanted freedom and just got surgeries and scary machines.
Trust me when I say this as someone who spent their third birthday recovering from a major surgery, he’ll be okay. He likely won’t remember the worst of it. Hospital drugs combined with traumatic memory repression make it very hard to know what exactly that whole experience feels like. Plus, since he’s so young, it’s even more likely he won’t remember much. I hope you guys are doing well now. ❤
In my opinion this movie is incredibly symbolic. The long shots of dark hallways and walls gives this eerie feeling, specially for the people who was afraid of the dark and/or being alone at home when kids. Wendigoon explains this point of view pretty well
Why is it so weird? This channel covers almost all analogue horror in YT and it's about theorizing about movies, so i think it was inevitable for him to cover it at some point
I recommend watching Wendigoon's theory on this movie. It's a lot longer, but seeing a different person's perspective and theory on the same piece of media is super cool.
I've been meaning to listen to Wendigoon's video too. Him and MatPat were the people I was eager to see present their theories on this movie considering how much they both love analog horror.
I would love to see MatPat watching and/or doing a theory on “The Babadook.” It’s a move that came out in 2014 and is, not as scary as other horror movies in my opinion, but still gets you to jump. I have my own theory, that I have heard from other people as well, that the Babadook is a representation of the main character’s depression and grief because at the start of the movie, her husband tragically dies. But I want to see what MatPat thinks so I won’t spoil too much if he does decide to do a theory on it. :)
Decent theory. My oldest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he was also diagnosed with focal epilepsy. He used to sleepwalk, talk in his sleep, have strange and terrifying dreams. One time I awoke one night to see him standing next to me in my bed staring at me grinding his teeth, when I woke him up he had no idea how he got where he was and was generally confused and scared and asked to sleep with I and his mother in our bed. Although his craniotomy to remove his tumor was successful and removed 85% of the tumor, and he never went into a coma, however he had some prolonged “staring seizures” that sometimes lasted as long as 5 minutes, for us his parents it was terrifying and since the removal of his tumor he no longer has seizures.
I read the initial motive for the movie was to find the closest thing to a mutual nightmare we’ve all had, which would match with the coma theory. Kid gets cognitively trapped in an inescapable space and his mind goes to one of the most innate fears all people of every age have - hopelessness
@@LuisSierra42 The childabuse story is the most sense to me though, because cartoons are a mirror of the kids life or what the kid wants his life to be and a way to hide away from the horrors of their life.
@@LuisSierra42 lmao ya but how much of fiction or any movie is related to supernatural stuff. Not trying to say Wendigons theory is more right or wrong I'm just being a bit logical. Considering a lot of horror is mainly supernatural
Wow this kind of film style is really effective in making things eerie, unsettling, and creepy. I usually roll my eyes at typical horror movies, but this gave me chills.
So it wasn't just me? When I saw the movie and rewatched it like two times, I thought: "This feels like...it isn't real...but somehow is..." To think that this is the conclusion. It makes my heart ache... I will surely give my children an extra hug today... TvT
Makes sense that the mysterious voice is perceived as a demon, because doctors are typically scary to kids. Especially in this situation, the doctor seems like a monster who keeps taking things away, keeping you trapped and hurting you and you don’t understand why. I was a sick kid with cancer and I hated doctors because I didn’t understand why they needed to poke and cut me, why they wouldn’t let my mom in the surgery room, and why my sisters couldn’t visit when I first woke up. It just felt like a bunch of mean people making arbitrary decisions and hurting me for no reason. This theory hit me in a personal place because I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a young child… it is genuinely terrifying and I couldn’t imagine how much more scary it would be if you had brain damage, or were in a coma and only getting glimpses of reality. I’m going to go watch Charlie the Unicorn or Dimension 20 or something… lol jeez
Honestly, it’s pretty rad that you covered it! I watched a Wendigoon video about this film, and… also, I hope you’re ok after watching it, specially since you have a kid.
This reminds me of a story of a woman that talked to her comatose brother for over 10 years(or over 20? It was scarily long) writing and speaking letters to him hoping that he would both somewhat know she still reaches for him as well as keeping things organized and updated. She always talked to him and she could see that he occasionally behaved like he was aware such as crying when a new carer was hired replacing someone that worked a long time and how he moved at times but then he died little after their mother. It is a very sad story from Brazil.
An interesting take! But the feeling of fear and dead for me came from the concept of feeling trapped in a house with parents that fought a lot or are abusive. My mom played mind games and we (the kids) started not trusting what adults say. I was also terrified of the dark. I just stared out into the dark of my room every night, listening so hard to hear if anything was in the room with me. Finally, the upside down house just represented life feeling upside, confusing, and wrong after my parents started fighting pretty heavy.
I am simply made uncomfortable by this movie, it's not even that "scary", but it's like it brings back a flood of hazy memories from my childhood that I have either forgotten or just wanted to never remember, the screams and yelling is something that will never leave my mind and this movie is just a very well put psychological horror, and I love the fact that there was a song that we sang in our dance class when I was young and it went something like, "skjdamrinkadinkidink skidimaekido, I loooove you!" this probably has nothing to do with this though and was just a memory from my childhood, this movie seems like a bad dream that I dread ever having and just want to close my eyes and forget anything ever happend
Skidamarink, or Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo. Later popularized by Sharon, Lois, & Bram. That's intentional. Spelled differently in case kids search for it online.
I like this movie bc its perspective is sooooo different. Like yeah there are different ways to film and and different angles and stuff, but basically all movies feel the same in terms of filming. All movies of every genre start to blend together into a see of mediocracy. Focus on the actors, their emotions, their dialog, and let that progress the story. Skinamrink is nothing like that, there are no faces, it's atmosphere, sound design, odd angles of the house, and very little dialog moves the story. Whether you consider that a movie or not it's just so refreshing to see something so different.
i'm not gonna deny that this one made me cry, i could hear my little sisters downstairs the whole time which made everything spoke about in this video hit so much closer. Great vid as always
The moment I heard the title of the movie my mind flashed back to The Elephant Show, which used skinnamirink as it's closing theme song. It brought me so much joy as a child. Hearing you describe this sad tale while imagining that happy, warm ending was... It just made me sad.
I loved the show too. In fact, weird memory here, when I was around 3 or 4, I gashed my chin open on a rocking chair, and after getting stitched up, the EMTs took me to see a Sharon Lois and Bram show.
When I watched the movie I believed that the snapping sound mentioned when the mother “hung herself” was her loading a shotgun, and that explained the banging sound after that scene, as well as the banging sound in a prior scene
Since Film Theory has time restraints, I would recommend watching Wendigoon’s summary of the movie. It does a great job of conveying how shocking and sudden the violence is.
This is one of the most interesting and saddening films you’ve reviewed on the channel. It’s a shame it’s been age restricted but it’s still definitely worth a watch
The crazy part about this is that it accurately reflects that there is no monster more terrifying than the ones we create in our own minds.
Your mind knows your greatest fear, that's why
As someone with depression and other mental health issues. That's very true.
That's deep
So true are own minds love to scare us, and if its blurry enough are minds panic and make unnecessary guesses on what the blury figure is
@Velaethia unfortunately your dead on👻 Been living with Severe Depression n anxiety n PTSD from all the horror that I've seen n lived n the past 45 yrs. I had Night Terror's all through grade school which didn't help.
It’s possible that kaylee “having her mouth taken away” means that she didn’t give up but her dad decided to pull the plug on Kevin and because he is the only legal guardian left; kaylee’s opinion is ignored. She loses her mouth.
Very good
OMG THAT MAKES SM SENSE
Woah
❤
My whole perspective on skinamarink is that it’s not supposed to have a cut and dry narrative, it’s like a nightmare, nothing makes sense outside the fact that it’s unpleasant. Like the hazy, cloudy memories of a kid waking up in the middle of the night, and their regular room suddenly feeling dangerous and unsafe.
Good take on the movie, when i was a kid I'd wake up in the middle of the night and everything and everything would unsettle me. And this film gave that unsettling feeling again
Actually, the creator did confirm that the movie 100% DOES have a cut and dry narrative, but he won’t reveal it any time soon.
That's pretty much exactly what I think
@@jakoski see that’s why artsy fartsy movies like this are a double edged sword. On one hand you’ve got people thinking the movie is purely conceptual, entirely up to our own interpretation, and it’s fun to come up with our own theories or just appreciate the art for what it is. Then we find out that there IS a real meaning behind it, and the creator won’t tell us the meaning (which is pretentious in itself). How is that fun at all? It either has meaning or it doesn’t, the director can’t have it both ways
It definitely does have a narrative. I've seen a lot of people describing the movie as not having a plot, but I disagree. There is a clear series of events that happen in an order that takes the film to an end.
The brain tumor comment is spot on. In the director’s short film “heck,” the inspiration for Skinamarink, Kevin tells his mom “I’m sorry I got cancer”
That's exactly what I thought. In fact I've just finished watching that short.
I was in a coma for 17 days in 2007, and I can tell you right now, coma dreams are seriously the most outrageous and weird dreams, BUT just as MatPat explains, somehow, you're able to "see" the real world even with your eyes closed while in a coma and somehow, your brain will interpret what you "see" in it's own special way. It's really weird, and hard to explain, but MatPat nails it.
Thanks for the info
I remember watching a MSA video about a girl who was in a coma for 7 years, but she could hear everything going on around her the whole time.
Wow. That's actually really interesting.
I remember my coma dreams.
@@mask938 Wonder how that affected her. Does that mean she still experienced time the same way as everyone else?
Also if kevin is unconscious for that long of a time, maybe the things in the house disappearing are his memory forgetting those objects, i mean almost 2 years of not seeing my house would definitely make me forget some things.
as well as the faces of his family, he is like 4? so he might forgot them
That's honestly such a great point!
True maybe but would he just forget windows and doors and toilets?
@@CakeNCoke4evermaybe not forgetting but it’s like a he doesn’t use them anymore so his brain doesn’t register them in his “house” anymore (mental house, I guess)
@@inkynebulato be fair, there’s a phenomenon in dreams that I can’t quite remember the name of atm where your brain just can’t construct human faces. It’ll try, you’ll recognize them to some degree, but if you were to try and focus on the face it would just be an amalgamation of things that don’t quite make sense. It’s the same for looking into mirrors in dreams.
If he’s unconscious, he is technically “in a dream”, hence as he slips entirely into a coma the faces would start to distort
I think the important thing about why this remains a good coma/dream theory (and movie) is the fact that this is literally the horror of a coma, not just "oh weird things are happening because you're in a coma" but "this is how scary a coma is"
Exactly!
What bothers people about coma/dream theories is how it complelty invalidates all the events
They never happened,there were never stakes, etc
But onthis case,the whole narrative and horror comes from being stuck in such a situation forever as a very young child so it works because the movie itself gives clues and hints that make a theoey like that make sense
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And,then the fact that his sister is there,at all,means that there's no way this is a coma dream.Mats so fucking dumb.
I love all the theories about that movie. I like how open ended it is. Some people say it's a metaphor for child abuse and I think it also works. If the boy was not sleepwalking and had no tumors, but it was dad that pushed or threw him down the stairs. He ends up in a coma all the same. Mom is distraught and may have ended herself in guilt for not protecting her child. Leaving the sister Kaylee alone with a violent and absent dad, with no voice and no power of her own. "She wasn't listening, so I took her mouth".
Interesting thoughts. Why do you think Kevin grabbed some towels in the beginning? Before falling down the stairs?
@@JasonandaCameramaybe trying to clean up a mess he made, before the dad found out.
Ooh this is a really smart take too, I like it
There's a theory that the mom could've been abusive and suffered from mental health issues.
this is how i watched it
It's worth mentioning that in the short film "Heck" by the same director, which was a proof of concept for "Skinamarink," the child main character at one point says, "I'm sorry I got cancer."
@thefilm_theoristsshut up
@@thengspjo4716 A yummy scam
@@zhongli159my favourite
@thefilm_theorists
Your life is worth NOTHING. You serve ZERO purpose.
As someone who has lost family to cancer, that is such a dark sentence to hear
I think "her mouth was taken away" means she stopped talking. Going inside yourself can be a trauma response, especially for a child. Because he could no longer hear her, it was like she wasn't there anymore.
And her eyes being taken away ment she stopped going to "see" him at the hospital anymore.
@@aaronpatterson4179 what do you think happened to her when both her mom and dad were no longer around
@@anitathakur9340 Realistically orphanage or going back to her father. But it’s irrelevant to know specifically what as it all just comes off the same to the main character’s perspective, the comatose boy.
I was in a coma for a month and this is exactly what happened. I saw tvs shows playing, knew my parents were there, knew someone was drinking coffee, knew I was asleep and that something was wrong and that I was dying. It was wild. I had a collage of my family members and saw that too bc they were worried I wouldn’t recognize anyone.
It must be crazy seeing a film that reminds you of something like that
Yeah that’s pretty wild. I couldn’t even imagine the feeling
I was hoping a coma was just really long sleep, that's low-key terrifying
Same
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I remember as a kid having a hyperactive imagination, thinking that doors were opening and shutting around me on their own, and generally being kind of terrified of windows and the bathroom. So when i clicked on this video, I didn't expect to weirdly relate to this.
I still have a very highly hyperactive imagination
When I’m trying to get to my room at night I still try to avoid windows and mirrors because when I look at them it feels like something’s moving nearby
I use to babysit this amazing little kid. He was playful, energetic, and unbelievably kind. One day, I was told by his parents he had a brain tumor. I watched the strain that having a young child, a toddler, that has cancer can have on a family. Thankfully, I also was able to see the grit and determination of two parents and a young boy to fight all day everyday and, eventually, make a full recovery. This theory hit close to home. I need to reach out to those guys. I haven't talked to them in years. Listen to what Matt said at the end of the video. Hug your family. Tell them you love them. But even more than that, if you care about someone, let them know. This is a harsh and unforgiving world. Never stop fighting.
Thanks for the advice
I can't hug my siblings right now because they're in korea and my dad lives somewhere else. plus my mom is sick at the moment
Never stop struggling.
Is the child ded?
I also knew I kid who had a brain tumour. When I was in year 5 he was in year 3. He went from walking with a cane to crutches to being a wheelchair. The doctors went to do an operation on him. They gave him 50/50. He did not survive. It was a very small primary school with only about 120-130 students so most people knew him.
No parent should EVER bury their child.
Edit: Shiver, you said to never stop struggling. That is a BAD thing.
As a child who survived a brain tumor, I never really understood my illness and the ramifications it could have on people. This is an awakening to me.
I'm a child with a brain tumor, it's always crazy to see what could've happened to me.
why is this not pinned? and congrats man!
im happy you survived and are still here
@@cherri_bear you said you have it.
If you really do still have it you ain't outta the woods yet.
It feels so fake
Dude. The fact that you recognized one of the clips by audio alone due to a previous theory blows my mind, lol, so awesome.
If it had been me, I'd have recognised the audio but wouldn't be able to remember where I'd heard it, and would be frustrated for ages until I found the clip.
It happens all the time to me.
so awesome...
I mean I’ve never finished Evangelion but the ending of Llamas with Hats has made me able to recognise Kanon D Dur from any distance
Even if the filmmaker came and said this is completely wrong it would be my head cannon. It's just too good.
Unless you have a giant gun implanted in your skull, I think you mean "canon," because the alternate is just too crazy.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks what
@@calledmedarling cannon = a type of gunpowder weapon
head cannon = big old head gun
@@Corn_Pone_Flicksthankyou so much for correcting them - i don’t think i would ever be able to sleep at night knowing that someone added an extra n into canon
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@Oprator Fighting fire with fire and making it worse
@@shelly4301 Exactly, lmao.
@@shelly4301 its a bot
dude was mad hyped for this episode.
I kind of imagined Kaylee’s mouth being taken away as their parents telling her to be quiet while in the hospital. Now that I think about it, I think the emphasis is on “I TOOK her mouth away”.
She can’t speak, not because her parents told her not to, but because the dad won’t go to visit anymore, therefore Kaylee can’t visit either. The dad took Kaylee’s mouth away.
Omg
This actually makes more sense because she’s a child
Not bad!
I kinda wanted her jaw to have been cut off( I feel psychopathic )
I heard once that, having family and friends talk to someone while they're in a coma actually helps them get out of it. They can hear what is going on outside, they just can't acknowledge it. So, the voice saying "She wanted to be with mommy, so I took her mouth away," could be Kevin's brain interpreting her not talking to him anymore and leaving Luke everyone else.
I actually watched this movie when it came out with my two friend and we were literally the only ones who were in the movie theatre and we were freaking out because we thought everyone else in the world disappeared 💀
They did, you should wake up David. You shouldn't be here. Wake up.
David. It's time to go. Please wake up.
You don't have to struggle with object permanence to enjoy Skinamarink, but it helps
@@CommissarChaotic y’all play too much im dead🤣
David... look behind you
Wendigoon wrote an hour long video essay on this film that was fantastic for those looking for a deeper dive, but team theorist always comes through with a fantastic video
Yaaas i was looking for this comment!
I think the coma and brain tumor theory made more sense than the mom-turning-into-demon theory in the horror film skinamarink. Here's why: First of all, the mom-turning-into-demon theory was too cliché and predictable. It's been done so many times before in other horror movies that it lost its impact and originality. Second of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more realistic and plausible. It explained why the protagonist had weird visions and nightmares, why he couldn't remember his past, and why he felt guilty about his mom's death. It also added a twist to the story that made it more interesting and surprising. Third of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more emotional and tragic. It showed how the protagonist was struggling with his own mind and reality, how he loved his mom despite her flaws, and how he had to face his own mortality. It made me feel more sympathy for him and his situation than the mom-turning-into-demon theory did.
hey more wendigoon fans 😊
@@スガル I definitely agree with coma theory, but I think wendigoon went way more in depth about how the film was created and filmed and what makes it such a good analog horror. Team theory wins on the theory for sure, but I think wendigoon talks a lot more about the perspective and artistic making of the film. So people should watch both
This is so dark, I feel bad for Matt Pat having to watch this AS A PARENT! This story is the kind I would cry myself to sleep to. Props to you for making this theory and not crying while recording
matpat cries?
@@NotBlazerMC see the video "losing the battle"
I am honestly surprised by the number of parents who watch matpat
I read this before watching wtf am I going to learn
That was so dark, wow
I can just imagine MatPat going from script to script, recording theories for all 4 channels in his closet... Unbelievable Effort!!
It's time for him to come out of the closet.
YOOOO Mozart! Next album when????
If only I put that much effort into my videos 😔
Fcking Mozart is liking film theory
Then he gets an age restriction :/
For me, those moments where you know you’re in a dream and want to wake up, yet can’t, and then start being brainwashed into believing you’re in real life again as scenery changes and it taking you two more hours until actually waking up are pretty scary.
For most of my life, I've used a trick I've heard of to wake up from dreams with a 100% success rate. You lay down wherever you are in the dream, in the position you normally would sleep in, and then close your eyes IN THE DREAM and for some reason it makes you wake up. And it doesn't seem to matter what side you're sleeping on. Even if I'm being chased, this works. I don't see much if anything while closing my eyes in the dream, but I can still hear things. An alternative I sometimes use is to make anyone in the dream really pissed off so that they start attacking me and the world starts warping and melting into myself, which always wakes me up.
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I've actually had a dream like that. It kept repeating the same scenario over and over again everytime I woke up. I would wake up, look at a clock, go into a living room be asked or told to clean something and do it all over again. Eventually, the dream shifted to a park and I sat on a bench and was looking at my phone but kept getting frustrated cuz it wasn't right. And then someone sat next to me and I don't remember what they said but I finally properly woke up and didn't sleep the rest of the night.
Another time, which this is only loosely related, I was having a pretty bad dream and didn't want to deal with the dreams consequences so I told myself I want to wake up. And so I did. Man, that was the most trippy thing ever, watching as I was standing up straight and it all faded strangely into me laying down on the bed as I forced myself awake. The only time I managed to lucid dream and I used it to force myself awake 😮💨
I mean... IDK if the thing of pinching yourself has been prover right, since I also heard people saying it just doesn't work, but if you KNOW you're dreaming, and I have to mention that you have to be 100% absolutely sure, because you should ABSOLUTELY NEVER do this IRL...
Your brain cannot imagine or comprehend what it's like to be dead, so if you die in a dream, you wake up. If you truly are desperate to wake up and can't, you COULD commit suicide in your dream to basically force yourself to wake up... Again, it's a bad idea, because if you're not dreaming, then you just die... But it IS possible. If someone knows a safer way, try that instead.
Apart from that, I only had one or two lucid dreams in my life and I also don't even remember most of my dreams. I guess I'm just one of those people
I remember having either a series of dreams or just a really long dream that had me waking up living through the morning and then waking up again and again and it was just exhausting because it did end up taking like 2-3 hours to finish from the time where I should have actually woken up.
IM SHOCKED that this is being covered by you guys! I love this movie but I found it absolutely horrifying. I was really hoping y’all would cover this, I just watched it a day ago.
Never seen it and haven’t watch the video do u think I should watch it
Here is the full clip: ua-cam.com/video/eFhhzloP4Ls/v-deo.html
@@dabmaster1040 I enjoyed it for what it was but you should know what ur getting into. As interesting as it is it is very tedious at points… you get from it what ur willing to put in. I’d say watch at home, lights off no distractions. It’s definitely flawed but worth experiencing to form your own opinion on.
@@dabmaster1040 You really have to immerse yourself if you’re gonna watch it. If you really like analog horror you’ll probably enjoy it, but there is a lot of movie that is just static shots. I recommend it for sure if you’re into that stuff and have a decent attention span
@@dabmaster1040 No. I gave it 20 minutes before I turned it off. It was extremely boring. It was basically like switching from Camera to Camera like Five Nights at Freddy’s but nothing was happening.
How MatPat mentions the disappearance about the toilet in is forever going to be funny to me.
"THE TOILET HAS GONE MISSING!"
Such a horrific event
It's no joke man the toilet has gone missing
I tried to find evidence as to where it went, but... I've got nothing to go on. 😀
My explosive diarrhea:
This somehow reminded me of the huge amount of toilet jokes Matpat and Steph made in the Sally Face gameplay a few years ago😂😂💀
I think it’s about how 2 children can deal with abuse in negative but really dramatized movie fashion. I think for Kaylee, they shut down and chose to never speak about it and truly getting over her childhood abuse. And on the other hand the boy may have had their inner child metaphorically murdered looking like disemboweling literally removing the inner child, dooming him to repeat the cycle of abuse.
I think the biggest horror of this is that all the pain could have been avoided if the doctors monitored his heart rate during the procedures. They could have seen he was in pain and administered morphine to ease it.
2 yrs of morphine for a child isnt the greatest idea
@@arafe.1012 yeah but the alternative is near-death level pains for a child. I'd rather come out addicted to morphine than go through that much pain and have no one be aware of it.
@@arafe.1012 You wouldn't need 2 years of morphine? Only morphine during the surgeries
The true horror was medical neglect or medical malpractice the entire time
It seems like they forget they could just... End his misery far quicker by letting go his oxygen or something like that. I know it might be considered sin and all, but would you dare to let your patient suffered and forced them to be alive even though they are already going to pass the death line anyway?
This movie hits me on a deep visceral level, really captures the feeling of listlessness and naivety from the perspectives of children in an abusive household with a spooky spin
Wdym abusive
Abusive?
Did you watch Matpat's video?? He said it was a story about love. No abuse in the story.
Plot: kid has a brain tumor
Kid falls while sleepwalking
Kid goes into coma
Kid stays in coma for 2 years and multiple surgeries
Dad can't emotionally handle it and parents divorce
Mom ends her own life in grief
Sister is transferred
Kid dies after 500 or so days
Zero abuse in the entire story
@@rayzerot yea that’s one theory. You don’t know for sure if it’s fact cuz you haven’t watched the film. I’m guessing OP has and came to his own conclusion
@Oprator leave.
I don’t get scared by movies easily but I saw the trailer in theaters and the increasing volume of “In this house” and the flashing of different scenes genuinely almost gave me a panic attack
I can see why. Sometimes someone narration is the one thing that scared me to death
You're not missing anything. The trailer is the scariest thing about that awful movie.
That's why i think this movie is so great for horror, it really captures the feeling of a child who was feeling in danger in a place that was supposed to be the safe.
@@Bajaprod01 that's your opinion. you don't need to tell this person what to watch and what not to
you might be epileptic my friend
This movie hits different when explained. My parents have been divorced since me and my sister were really young, and my mom has serve depression. And I remember when I cracked my head open one night while in a ice skating ring she was acting historical and crying. It feels so relatable cus I lowkey believe my mom could end it all at any time bruh
I understand the feeling. It's so uneasy when you feel your parent is on the brink, even if as a child you didn't understand the concept. My mom attempted a couple of times but as a kid I didn't understand. My eldest sister always convinced us everything was fine.
Take this is as you wish but remember that at least to our best knowledge, you only get one life. Be there for your mom you’ll never know when it could be gone
Straight goosebumps. I was 4 in 1995 when the movie takes place, and my parents house had an identical layout. My wife was unfazed, but I was super jumpy for a few days after watching this.
Honestly, I love this theory so much. I think my favorite theories are the one's where Mat analyzes indie horror movies and games. There's something so fresh and interesting about them, and they often explore topics we haven't seen before. Truly fantastic. Please do more like this!!
i love that the theorist team actually does give us incredibly dark theories like this one. im not a youtuber but i can imagine that this video would get demonetized cause of the suicide being covered and they still do it. truly an amazing group of theorists
It has a viewer discretion warning when you click on the video.
Update: it did get demonetized.
I can't watch it because stupid yputube is censoring it.
@@DZERMrBaahow’d you comment?
Got a warning when I clicked
This movie triggered my PTSD soooo badly. I tell people this is a perfect example of what it feels like to be a child in an unsafe home. I openly sobbed at the "I got you some juice." line because that felt so much like those moments when my brother and I were trapped in a house with a monster down the hall and nothing we could do about it but try to take care of each other in the only ways a child can. I couldn't tell you what the intended story was, just that it was very real and very raw for someone that survived child abuse.
I love how no matter how scary his theories are, he makes everything go back to normal and making us happy by saying... "That's just a theory... A FILM THEORY!"
Edit: MOM, I'M FAMOUS!!!!
plot twist, it was not a theory
This is why we never leave these videos before they finish.
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There goes my comment
@griffy ye
That's not how bots works
This theory made it from being one of the scariest movies to being an amazing dark drama in like 15 minutes. And I'm almost having the guts for it now to watch it.
I've heard that it's not terrifying, but rather slightly unsettling. There's no jumpscares or anything.
@@TylerDollarhide there are a few terrifying jumpscares
@@TylerDollarhide the first jump scare in the movie is the scariest jump scare ever imo
I just watched it last night, fell asleep, then continued where I fell asleep today. Somehow I think me drifting in and out of conciseness for some of the quiet parts added to the effect lol
@@tackotacko8513 watch the haunting of hill house. That show has the best jump scare ever imo, better that the one here
The disappearing/manipulation of objects and cartoons on a loop could also symbolize how he was slowly loosing his memory and forgetting or misremembering details of certain things because of the tumor
Why was his memory loose?
@Aspect because of the brain tumor
@@dimitrythewhale7544 I'm joking because he spelled losing wrong
@@Aspect333-w9o she*
@Aspect srry
skinamarink really takes you back to the messed up nightmares you'd have as a kid, just makes you feel their terror all over again without all the graininess and forgetfulness you'd usually have after waking up. for that accurate depiction alone it's one of the most terrifying films i've ever seen.
As someone who lost a child to cancer, this movie and subsquent theory hits super hard. NGL, im crying right now. I wish I could give my son a hug one more time
Edit: Thank you all for your responses. I’m certain he’s in a better place but it still hurts when I get reminded. Thank you all.
I'm so sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear about it.
i'm sorry for your loss.
Im so sorry for you
Sorry for ya loss
I’m totally mentally prepared to relive the mental anguish I got when I watched Wendigoon’s video on Skinamarink
Wendigang!!
@@neonpinkqueen1403 Wendigang, indeed
woop woop wendigang
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Fr tho it's where it all started for me
I choose to believe that Matpat secretly has 4 different versions of his jacket in all off his channels colors, sitting alone in his closet, recording his scripts whilst changing jackets everytime he changes channels
😂
Now, THIS is my favorite theory ever
You made me feel better lmao
His order for the fourth one must've taken forever. That's why it took so long to make fashion theory
I wouldn't be surprised if he has four different closets for each channel
I think Skinamarink is about child abuse. The dad (the epicenter and main voice of the demon) hurts his wife, so she leaves (or probably kills herself), abandoning the kids with the monster. They can't escape. They're stuck in the house with this cruel being, their only respite TV, Legos, and each other. Before the movie kicks off, the dad hurts Kevin very recognizably and takes him to the hospital under the guise that "he fell down the stairs". He wants to silence Kaylee, who is trying to tell people the truth, and wants Kevin to forget what he saw
I know this may be weird to say, but I like how Skinamarink makes you slow down and work hard to watch it. It feels like a reaction to a trend in modern movies where everything is big and fast and has to be immediately explained (even things that don't really need an explanation).
the next step for modern movies is to pull a lovecraft and explain air conditioners but scary
Movies never stopped being slow and an active viewership you just need to know where to look
@@dragonfruit8884 This feels like what I say to people complaining about video games, hah! But it's good to see such a movie gain mainstream recognition regardless.
That’s not a trend, that’s the bare minimum of what a movie is. That’s like saying books make a trend of using adjectives.
@@HatredInTheFlesh a movie doesn't neeed to be big and fast and explain everything immediately, skinnamarink is very slow (speeds up eventually) and explains nothing, you have to watch carefully and come up with your own story and people love it (to be fair there seems to be an equal amount of people who hate it so)
The scene where the policeman talks to Kevin on the phone still intrigues me. Even after reflecting on the meanings and seeing many other deeper details in the video I still couldn't unravel this scene.
About Kevin's sister I imagine the part where the "entity" says "I can do anything, she didn't do as she was told, she called her mother and father and I took her mouth off".
I believe that the parents of the two children were previously divorced, as the father seems to call the mother when Kevin falls down the stairs. So after the mother's death, the father, having custody of the sister, stops going to visit Kevin, and the sister even wanting to go see him is prevented. Thus losing his eyes, not being able to see him, and his mouth, not being able to talk to him.
Another detail that was clarified to me watching the video is that the mother's face at the end can be quite scary because Kevin after the surgery would have difficulty identifying faces, and that's why he also asks twice what the name of that person saying to him to sleep. Perhaps so much time has passed that he no longer remembers his mother's face and voice.
im happy matpat enjoyed this film and made a theory episode on it. its a really haunting and genius film that like matpat said wasnt for everyone. the coma theory is solid and what ive heard elsewhere. its crazy how such an abstract film can make you empathize so much with this family and the children
This is the definition of an emotional rollercoaster. The fact that something like this COULD actually happen in real life is just...
this is a pretty unique take on the coma theory! i love skinamarink and how everyone's takes on the story can differ. I like Wendigoon's interpretation most
I've never heard of Wendigoon, I'll need to look it up and see their idea, my take away was very different from MatPats, I thought it was about Child Abuse but maybe I'm just projecting
I think the coma and brain tumor theory made more sense than the mom-turning-into-demon theory. Here's why: First of all, the mom-turning-into-demon theory was too cliché and predictable. It's been done so many times before in other horror movies that it lost its impact and originality. Second of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more realistic and plausible. It explained why the protagonist had weird visions and nightmares, why he couldn't remember his past, and why he felt guilty about his mom's death. It also added a twist to the story that made it more interesting and surprising. Third of all, the coma and brain tumor theory was more emotional and tragic. It showed how the protagonist was struggling with his own mind and reality, how he loved his mom despite her flaws, and how he had to face his own mortality. It made me feel more sympathy for him and his situation than the mom-turning-into-demon theory did.
@@Werewolf914 i absolutely love the child abuse theory and i think that its the best metaphor to the doors and windows disappearing and having no escape from an abusive household. but Wendigoon’s video is long but worth the watch! he points out a ton of things i haven’t noticed before
@@スガル im glad you like the theory so much! the director said that skinamarink was heavily inspired by 70s horror, which would explain the now cliche possession horror that was popular back then! but i definitely dont think that a demon possession story takes away from originality of this film. i think that wendigoon’s theory make the most sense to explain a lot of the scary things we see. horror is about fear of the unknown, so i don’t usually like going with the most logical scientific explanation and i think having the monster be an all powerful demon that can control time and torture kids is much scarier than the coma theory. this film for me is meant to scare the viewer so heavily that they feel like a scared little kid again, just like kevin and kaylee. that makes the film much more emotional and compelling to me!
@@TheCrazysharkguy Ok, but the brain tumor theory doesn't take away from the scariness, it enhances it as it is a real thing that can happen.
I think the sister stays around in his mind longer because we are closer to our siblings than anyone else. With so many shared experiences they are the most like us especially when we are young children.
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as someone who experienced child neglect and abuse at a young age, skinnamarink is the most scarily accurate portrayal of these horrors. i watched this movie and saw a reflection of my experiences, truly terrifying. although this movie is hard to watch, it is easily one of my favorite films of all time.
Those are also the vibes I got from it. Like his parents where just gone. They both seemed pretty ok with just being alone.
I agree. The moment that stood out to me was how Kevin goes back to watching tv after being stabbed in the eye. That way that after terror and pain, there’s nothing left to do but go quiet and numb out. When he turned on the tv again it made my heart hurt.
It was familiar how after any loud noise, the kids would go quiet while the sounds of cartoons still played. The contrast of the silly sounds and music with the tense silence. At any moment, the fun can be over and the peace all gone.
Very sorry for your experience
So sorry you went through all that, hope you're doing okay
i dont handle horror well but i like them conceptually and consuming them second hand through analyses like this. its always neat to see how effective horror is at abstracting and communicating themes like family collapse and neglect, vs just presented in say a "high brow" drama, which would likely just present abject sadness. reminds me of the metamorphosis (not really horror, i know) but if it was about a kid and not a dad.
Of all the "shocking" "horrifying" "deep" horror out there, this one hits differently. This is far beyond a lot of the games Mat has reviewed in all these years. It kinda makes FNAF look like Birdemic.
I love how mat has done so many theories that he consistently uses past research in his newer theories. I find it fascinating and rather Impressive
fr the fact hes bveen working on fnaf theories for 10 years is wild to me
@@michael9513 he only got qnother 10 years of fnqf theories to go
@@thelorddarthvader7264 Well. This aged.
I had thought the mom had made a deal with a demon to save the son at the beginning of the movie, not realizing what horrors it was going to bring on the family in exchange for the son's life after falling and hitting his head, but this theory makes a lot of sense! Great video!
Is one of the others interpretation
I am so glad my coma didn’t have such horrors to it.. I just remember feeling very loved and knowing family was around me. I felt at peace. Honestly I sort of felt dead, but in a peaceful way. I remember family being there every day, and I think ultimately that’s what pulled me out.
As someone who’s seen this, I honestly regret it, I now have issues getting up in the middle of the night to get water just because of it.
I only saw the few clips from this theory and I'm already unable to sleep.
It’ll go away after some time I’m sure
I’m confused what makes it scary
@@roguereaper8796 The sense of helplessness and the unknown, and clearly have no one to talk to and barely anything to interact with.
@@roguereaper8796 it moves slowly, you don’t get to see what’s there but it pushes this sense of fear and claustrophobia into your mind, then you hear the mother’s bones snapping and the sister disappears.
The whole thing feels so personal and so dark, and you have no control over anything,
and at the end the kid dies and this thing that has been chasing you for hours kills him.
LETS GOOOO! I always wanted them to make a theory about this movie since I first watched it. It’s right up their alley!
I’m gonna st3b all of you in your robotic eyes❤
Why is there so many bots?
Ironic
I'm sorry but you've been raided by bots 😔
I had this same reaction when i saw this video. Just like me fr
This film gives me flashbacks of myself as a kid and not finding any of my family members at night.. makes me feel empty inside
I am more with abused children in a dysfunctional house theory. As a child that lived in that chaos I felt it very close to home. It was the first thing I thought was happening after the mom explained they were separating…
MatPat is such a genuine genius. The way he can see the depth in these things and make a coherent breakdown of his interpretation (and potentially the actual story in this case) is so impressive. 10/10
He's actually missed a lot of extremely important information that caused him to say a few incorrect things about the movie
He has an entire team of people who write his scripts. He doesn't "see the depth" in things so much as pays the right people to do it for him then reads a script.
He has a team of people
@@davidabest7195 also, the coma theory was already talked about by other youtubers before, matpat didnt come up with this theory
MatPat actively ruins the cultural perception of a good amount of the media he reviews simply by being overconfident in his analysis and having a following of mostly gullible children who assume everything he says is fact.
As someone who suffers from C-PTSD this movie PERFECTLY explains our nightmares, fears, and hopelessness in the face of the abyss or lack thereof. But I also try not to be to harsh on those who don't like the movie because in all seriousness, this is a fate worse than death and I'm so happy alot of people don't understand. They think it's dumb and we envy that ability to not know what we do now.
I wish I could've remained in my bubble of bliss, but now I fear every second my body could fail em at any moment,
For a few days before my dumb ape brain forgets and I go back to being oblivious
When you get a viewer discretion before the video starts you know it’s gonna be good 👀
true
Fr
Yep
bro i spent like a minute deciding if i wanted to watch it or not because i was so scsred
Seriously 💀
16:29 Matt sounds like he’s going to cry
Matt uploading all these videos on all his channels WHILE starting a new channel is a NEW LEVEL of dedication. Props to him
They clone Matpat
If you think about it, this film is terrifying in that it strikes deep. Not just the trauma and heartbreak, but the fact that this film literally forced you to be afraid of what's lurking in the dark. I really wasn't expecting that kind of warning to show up in this theory, but for a coma to last that long, and the impacts that came with it, this really illustrates the damage that gets spirals out of control.
This actually hits kinda close to home. My mom has a close friend whose son had a brain tumor when he was a preteen. The treatments were difficult and left him with stunted growth. A few years ago, as an adult, his tumor came back. Just before he went in for his first surgery, he had a seizure and died. His sister and parents were both devastated.
that's awful... there are no words that can heal that kind of damage. i hope they are finding ways to find peace somehow. that's so sad.
That was roughly what my late uncle went through. Though, by the sound of it, the son of your mom's friend got a few somewhat normal years of life; I obviously don't know those details, but if you want to share more, I'm here to listen.
My uncle's case, it was from a TBI that didn't get treated in time. He hit his head on a rock about a block away from the house we lived in. That spot in the neighborhood was somewhat obscured from view by a lot of trees-we lived in Louisiana for the first half of my childhood, but this was still a good decade before I came along-and the early 70s was way before the age of knowing where your kid was all the time.
Anyway, the story goes that he didn't show up back at the house for dinner, so they went out frantically looking for him. When they finally found him, and got him to the hospital, the pressure from swelling in his skull had already killed off a lot of brain tissue. One of his surgeries was to remove a piece about the size of baseball. That, and the rest of the damage, effectively froze his mind's development for the rest of his life; and it took years of various kinds of rehabilitation to get him to a point where he didn't need constant care.
I grew up living in the same houses as him, since we both lived with my grandparents. His seizures were the other outcome. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a petit mal until I was an adult. They were frequent, violent, and the aftermath of each one was easily a 8 hours of recovering his senses.
You might imagine that a preteen me being put in charge of a 30 odd year old man-with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old and extremely active epilepsy-when the adults wanted to leave the house was incredibly traumatizing for all parties involved. This never stopped, and it wasn't even the worst thing from my childhood, but I still have a lot of sympathy for the fact that he never got to live a real life.
He quietly passed away when I was in my late 20s. I got called and yelled at to get over to my grandparents house, and had to manage the entire situation. I wanted to know what the actual cause of death was, but no one else really wanted to know why, so no autopsy for answers. I know my biofamily was resentful of the situation and, despite losing their minds in grief, I also think they felt it was a mercy and an absolution for them.
Anyway, that was more words than I ever thought I'd say about that whole part of my past with my biofam.
@@gogauzeWow... That's pretty sad, man.
@@k4rec4 it is what it is.
But, yeah, everything about my uncle's missed opportunities because of an accident, the situations that happened around him because of it, the suffering that everyone involved endured, and his early death are filled with existential sorrow.
That’s so sad, I actually started crying. Even if it’s not real. Poor baby stuck in his own mind all while his family falls apart grieving him 😢😢 Scary too because it’s realistic
Me too
My 3yr old almost died this January. Spent two weeks in the hospital, as a father I felt helpless and terrified. My son wanted so desperately to go home and see his brothers who were barred from the hospital. Poor guy wanted freedom and just got surgeries and scary machines.
Atleast he made it out :)
I’m so sorry to hear that!!! I hope he’s doing ok now!
Trust me when I say this as someone who spent their third birthday recovering from a major surgery, he’ll be okay. He likely won’t remember the worst of it. Hospital drugs combined with traumatic memory repression make it very hard to know what exactly that whole experience feels like. Plus, since he’s so young, it’s even more likely he won’t remember much. I hope you guys are doing well now. ❤
In my opinion this movie is incredibly symbolic. The long shots of dark hallways and walls gives this eerie feeling, specially for the people who was afraid of the dark and/or being alone at home when kids. Wendigoon explains this point of view pretty well
The fact that MatPat is even covering this is a miracle, let alone him uploading on 3 DIFFERENT CHANNELS IN ONE DAY
Why is it so weird? This channel covers almost all analogue horror in YT and it's about theorizing about movies, so i think it was inevitable for him to cover it at some point
@@LuisSierra42 he just opened a new channel, so now hes actively managing 4 channels
@@baconiumo yeah I'm sure it was the style theorists
@@baconiumo He sold the channel so i think he's no longer that involved in management
@@LuisSierra42 pretty sure he still is, just with more funding?
"Run into the tunnel, Kevin. It's reeeal, i swear"
You know when the video is age restricted that stuff is about to be good
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I recommend watching Wendigoon's theory on this movie. It's a lot longer, but seeing a different person's perspective and theory on the same piece of media is super cool.
Thanks for the recommendation!
wendigoon
I actually saw his video yesterday, then MatPat uploaded this. What timing.
I've been meaning to listen to Wendigoon's video too. Him and MatPat were the people I was eager to see present their theories on this movie considering how much they both love analog horror.
@e Filthy lies, not at all what Dweeb recommended.
It's fascinating comparing Matt's take on this to Wendigoon's. Always neat to see multiple creators takes on things.
Fully agree
I would love to see MatPat watching and/or doing a theory on “The Babadook.” It’s a move that came out in 2014 and is, not as scary as other horror movies in my opinion, but still gets you to jump.
I have my own theory, that I have heard from other people as well, that the Babadook is a representation of the main character’s depression and grief because at the start of the movie, her husband tragically dies.
But I want to see what MatPat thinks so I won’t spoil too much if he does decide to do a theory on it. :)
Decent theory. My oldest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he was also diagnosed with focal epilepsy. He used to sleepwalk, talk in his sleep, have strange and terrifying dreams. One time I awoke one night to see him standing next to me in my bed staring at me grinding his teeth, when I woke him up he had no idea how he got where he was and was generally confused and scared and asked to sleep with I and his mother in our bed. Although his craniotomy to remove his tumor was successful and removed 85% of the tumor, and he never went into a coma, however he had some prolonged “staring seizures” that sometimes lasted as long as 5 minutes, for us his parents it was terrifying and since the removal of his tumor he no longer has seizures.
I am so proud of your son for fighting.
Good theory!
I read the initial motive for the movie was to find the closest thing to a mutual nightmare we’ve all had, which would match with the coma theory. Kid gets cognitively trapped in an inescapable space and his mind goes to one of the most innate fears all people of every age have - hopelessness
Seeing both this theory and Wendigos theory is so interesting. They're like completely different in ideas and I kinda adore that.
Wendigoon's theory doesn't explain the cartoon's tho, so i think Mat's might be more accurate overall
@@LuisSierra42 The childabuse story is the most sense to me though, because cartoons are a mirror of the kids life or what the kid wants his life to be and a way to hide away from the horrors of their life.
@@LuisSierra42 I'm pretty sure it did, he said it was the entity (?) Messing with the kids.
@@Seeevu well but in that case, it requires the existence of a supernatural entity while this theory does not
@@LuisSierra42 lmao ya but how much of fiction or any movie is related to supernatural stuff. Not trying to say Wendigons theory is more right or wrong I'm just being a bit logical. Considering a lot of horror is mainly supernatural
14:31 not many things scare me but this got me the snapping sounds the gasps
Wow this kind of film style is really effective in making things eerie, unsettling, and creepy. I usually roll my eyes at typical horror movies, but this gave me chills.
Skinamarink was the only movie to scare me on the level that it did. Truly a horrifying masterpiece
I didn't think a film theory on a horror movie would make me cry
same bro
I-...wow. that's not even scary anymore. That's just very sad and tragic.😢
So it wasn't just me?
When I saw the movie and rewatched it like two times, I thought: "This feels like...it isn't real...but somehow is..."
To think that this is the conclusion. It makes my heart ache... I will surely give my children an extra hug today... TvT
Makes sense that the mysterious voice is perceived as a demon, because doctors are typically scary to kids. Especially in this situation, the doctor seems like a monster who keeps taking things away, keeping you trapped and hurting you and you don’t understand why.
I was a sick kid with cancer and I hated doctors because I didn’t understand why they needed to poke and cut me, why they wouldn’t let my mom in the surgery room, and why my sisters couldn’t visit when I first woke up. It just felt like a bunch of mean people making arbitrary decisions and hurting me for no reason.
This theory hit me in a personal place because I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a young child… it is genuinely terrifying and I couldn’t imagine how much more scary it would be if you had brain damage, or were in a coma and only getting glimpses of reality.
I’m going to go watch Charlie the Unicorn or Dimension 20 or something… lol jeez
Brennan lee mulligan!
Honestly, it’s pretty rad that you covered it! I watched a Wendigoon video about this film, and… also, I hope you’re ok after watching it, specially since you have a kid.
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Also first human reply(idc about those but these are bots)
@@Sapphiregamer8605 AI invasion is in full swing
@@LuisSierra42 and with no end in sight.
This reminds me of a story of a woman that talked to her comatose brother for over 10 years(or over 20? It was scarily long) writing and speaking letters to him hoping that he would both somewhat know she still reaches for him as well as keeping things organized and updated. She always talked to him and she could see that he occasionally behaved like he was aware such as crying when a new carer was hired replacing someone that worked a long time and how he moved at times but then he died little after their mother. It is a very sad story from Brazil.
An interesting take! But the feeling of fear and dead for me came from the concept of feeling trapped in a house with parents that fought a lot or are abusive. My mom played mind games and we (the kids) started not trusting what adults say.
I was also terrified of the dark. I just stared out into the dark of my room every night, listening so hard to hear if anything was in the room with me.
Finally, the upside down house just represented life feeling upside, confusing, and wrong after my parents started fighting pretty heavy.
16:56 i imagine the food delivery guy just looking around the house like: "WHERE IS THE FRICKING DOOR!?"
I am simply made uncomfortable by this movie, it's not even that "scary", but it's like it brings back a flood of hazy memories from my childhood that I have either forgotten or just wanted to never remember, the screams and yelling is something that will never leave my mind and this movie is just a very well put psychological horror, and I love the fact that there was a song that we sang in our dance class when I was young and it went something like, "skjdamrinkadinkidink skidimaekido, I loooove you!" this probably has nothing to do with this though and was just a memory from my childhood, this movie seems like a bad dream that I dread ever having and just want to close my eyes and forget anything ever happend
Skidamarink, or Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo. Later popularized by Sharon, Lois, & Bram. That's intentional. Spelled differently in case kids search for it online.
I like this movie bc its perspective is sooooo different. Like yeah there are different ways to film and and different angles and stuff, but basically all movies feel the same in terms of filming. All movies of every genre start to blend together into a see of mediocracy. Focus on the actors, their emotions, their dialog, and let that progress the story. Skinamrink is nothing like that, there are no faces, it's atmosphere, sound design, odd angles of the house, and very little dialog moves the story. Whether you consider that a movie or not it's just so refreshing to see something so different.
i'm not gonna deny that this one made me cry, i could hear my little sisters downstairs the whole time which made everything spoke about in this video hit so much closer. Great vid as always
this was something I definetly shouldn't have watched while laying in my bed, in the dark, at 11 at night.
Same but at 1 am
Watched it at 3 am, Bro is saying go to sleep bruh :I
@@CrimsonKnight_Gaming same
aight just gonna have nightmares for some time
The moment I heard the title of the movie my mind flashed back to The Elephant Show, which used skinnamirink as it's closing theme song. It brought me so much joy as a child. Hearing you describe this sad tale while imagining that happy, warm ending was... It just made me sad.
Same. When this popped up on my feed, I thought MatPat was just ruining childhoods again by finding something freaky about the dancing elephant.
I loved the elephant show as a child.
Sharon, Lois & Bram we're a huge part of my childhood. Even saw them perform live at a mall.
I loved the show too. In fact, weird memory here, when I was around 3 or 4, I gashed my chin open on a rocking chair, and after getting stitched up, the EMTs took me to see a Sharon Lois and Bram show.
When I watched the movie I believed that the snapping sound mentioned when the mother “hung herself” was her loading a shotgun, and that explained the banging sound after that scene, as well as the banging sound in a prior scene
I love that matt and the whole theory crew never make a bad video. Thank you for making my childhood so much better 😄
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Since Film Theory has time restraints, I would recommend watching Wendigoon’s summary of the movie. It does a great job of conveying how shocking and sudden the violence is.
I watched this once and literally had nightmares for weeks. This still haunts me. But for real thanks for the memories :)
:D
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A movie about dark hallways, and implied horror, gave you nightmares, for weeks
smh this generation is so soft
@@EightFourFiveTwo-p5x This movie is a prime candidate for the most overrated thing of the century. It literally has nothing to be scared of
@Patrick39 Agreed, L baby scared of dark hallways
*_Got a freaking warning before a FILM THEORY video._*
This is one of the most interesting and saddening films you’ve reviewed on the channel. It’s a shame it’s been age restricted but it’s still definitely worth a watch