Lo-fi bone chiller Skinamarink is the latest viral horror film to make a huge return

Loosely speaking, Skinamarink follows two siblings, Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault) and Kevin (Lucas Paul), who awake in their house one morning to discover their parents gone, and with them, every window and door in the house. Filmed like secretive surveillance and chock full of shots that linger long enough to trap a viewer like an animal, Skinamarink masterfully wields (and reshapes) the tools of modern horror to create something totally weird and totally unique.

In The A.V. Club’s review of Skinamarink, Matthew Jackson crowns the film a “top contender for the year’s most frightening film,” and lauds it as “stunningly mesmeric” and “a singularly nightmarish piece of horror filmmaking.”

As Jackson also correctly predicted, Skinamarink is most certainly not for everyone—Skinamarink’s Rotten Tomatoes numbers are deliciously polarizing, ushering in the type of buzzy discourse that can lend to filling theater seats (if you’re not Babylon, of course). Skinamarink currently boasts a 75% fresh critical rating and a 47% rotten audience rating.

For those who don’t make it to the theater for Skinamarink, the film will arrive for streaming on Shudder later this year.