seriously, i just finished watching it, i have my criticisms which seem to fall in line with some others have made (i.e. drawn out etc.) but overall the film was great in the sense of being a film, i did not however feel great after watching it, i needed answers. its not the scariest movie ever but the implications and situation in general are very depressing and kinda stick in your head
9/10 :concerned-confusion: watch in the right headspace but also don't watch if youre squeamish about bad things happening to (very) young kids
People often compare it to a kids dream or a fever dream, but for me specifically the childhood memory it evokes is what I'll call a "dreamless fever".
Its when you're stuck with a fever and you are so weak and tired that you cant move your body properly, and you cant think properly either, and you are just stuck in bed waking up endlessly.
You dont like try to fall asleep or notice when you do, you just keep waking up, and probably the blinds are drawn cause you are supposed to rest or light hurts your eyes, so any amount of time could have passed, and you just wake up over and over again disoriented, and maybe the TV is on in the other room, or you could be watching the TV, but none of it makes sense, and you're waking up over and over, and sometimes maybe your parents are talking but they sound like the teacher from peanuts, and next time you wake up they arent talking but you cant tell if its because its in the middle of the night or they just arent talking, and it keeps going.
Anytime I think back to Skinamarink I just remember how that feels like.
Also the director made a 30 minute short film thats up on youtube and is basically a proof of concept.
Some people say they like it better(I think overwhelmingly because of the length), personally I dont really like it, but it is interesting to see the difference in what is basically kind of a "classic" internet horror with an interesting style, and that style being taken to its extreme in the full length film.
In Heck, a lot of nothing happens all the time, theres usually a new "nothing" going on, while Skinamarink lingers on the same nothing happening for way longer. Also Heck has much more of the "youtube horror lore clues" sprinkled throughout where you can kind of get a basic sense of the relevant background and story, there are "clues" sort of like that in Skinamarink too, but its very difficult to get a sense of what is relevant to the direct events and what is just things the kids experienced previous to this for other reasons.