#i dont really think its scary like how mandela catalogue is

[gifti3]

Can demons experience the horrors?

[looking-cool-joker]

I watched half of Skinamarink and I have a lot to say on it.

Can’t understand what is happening or what they are saying

11:36 Scenes last for too long without ANYTHING happening

11:56: Things seem to just happen for no reason or any way to understand what is happening

12:50 whos Kevin?? I think I only saw one child, so if theres two, why didn’t you show both???

14:18 Dark scenes and Hallways the movie :/

15:44 Weird suspense doesn’t make a movie scary, you need more than that.

17:44 Is the dad dead or??? They don’t explain anything!!! I’m almost twenty minutes in, give me something!!!!!!

20:30 Are the lights going to suddenly turn off?

20:39 Kinda

21:07 I get they’re kids, but why is the dialogue so spaced out :((

22:20 this really is the movie huh. re: 14:18

23:23: SOUNDS DON’T MAKE A MOVIE SCARY OR ENTICING, ITS JUST SOUNDS, DARK ROOMS AND HALLWAYS THE MOVIE.

24:25 Oh yeah, also “Dad” the movie

24:58 Left for an hour because I was tired of this movie, the entire screen is black, what is happening.

25:43 I’m getting tired of lights suddenly turning off and revealing a dark hallway

25:52: oh look actual people, haven’t seen that in a while.

26:16 Theres just audio from the TV playing as people go in and out of a dark room. How is this scary? Or honestly just enjoyable?

27:19 You can tell this movie was made in eight days (derogatory)

28:08 Alright, I’m tired of the audio being too quiet/incoherent so thank god for subtitles, secondly, “Why is mom crying?” Well why does this movie not explain anything

It is so infuriating, I get having a loose story but come on??? This movie sucks so badly, why was this even made I hate every second of this, its just nothing.

29:21 LOUD NOISES DON’T MAKE A MOVIE SCARY OH MY GOD STOP BEING QUIET AND THEN BE SO LOUD ITS NOT SCARY ITS ANNOYING.

32:36 LMAO THE TOILET JUST APPEARED AND ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY. This movie is making me lose my head.

32:40 Nvm its gone again

32:49 I may sound like a broken record but theres just, not enough happening to justify long scenes. Dialogue is sparse, which could be an okay thing, when you are looking at either a white wall or a pitch black room, its just so slow. Two minutes feel like an hour, and whats worse is that the story is so hard to understand, it doesn’t even feel like a story.

Its just kids saying “Dad” or Kevin repeating Kaylees name, which maybe they will actually say something of importance, but its just tiring.

32:55: STOP HAVING JUMPSCARES THEY JUST FAIL AT SCARING ME.

34:08 And I’m tired of the grain effect, and I hate the static, it’d be fine IF SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING TO DISTRACT ME FROM THE HEADACHE IM GETTING FROM HEARING IT

35:31 re: 32:55 and 29:21

38:20 dont you just love a dark room with someones legs being abled to be seen and thats just the scene, nothing more???

38:32 OH LOOKEE ANOTHER HALLWAY THATS DARK.

38:47 We all love a filtered voice :)

41:24 “I can’t see anything” Neither can I

43:33 I wish this was anything else, I would rather be watching Mandela Catalogue rn, at least its somewhat scary and I can parse whats happening.

45:56: It really isn’t a good sign that theres an hour of this movie left and I’m think about ditching it, this isn’t fun, this isn’t scary, this isn’t interesting. It sucks so badly, when I say I want to watch anything else I mean it. I WANT TO WATCH ALADDIN 2019 OVER THIS, THAT IS HOW BAD IT IS

47:20 re: 35:31

49:27 So whats with the dad, why should i care about the kids, why should I care about the mother. Why should I care about this movie? They don’t give me anything, stuff just happens, dad was there now hes not, kid fell down the stairs nvm he’s fine now, mom tells them to close their eyes she disappears.

What does it mean, I don’t think it means anything, I think this story is too vague, to a point where I don’t think there is one. Focusing on legos doesn’t help me parse anything. It doesn’t help. Looking at a TV playing old cartoons doesn’t give me anything, them moving a couch DOESNT GIVE ME ANYTHING.

I understand that abstract art is well.. Abstract, but this is just, pointless. There is no story, or at least they don’t want to show me the story, they want to show me kids calling out for their dad who may or may not be missing.

But thats the thing, I know nothing, BECAUSE THIS MOVIE TELLS ME NOTHING

The cinematography isn’t even good for crying out loud! Its boring, its the same five angles in different rooms. And again I’m tired of the static and the grain.

It feels like a worse P.T, but thats an insult to even compare it to a Hideo Kojima work.

51:41 This movie likes to pretend its building up suspense, but the suspense is “Whens the next loud noise” or possibly even “Whens the next the audio will cut out?” Its not scary, it’ll never be scary.

This is around half of the movie, It won’t get any better so I’ve heard and I hate it. I’m leaving it here. But I’ll watch the final scene

1:37:26 Finally they changed the color, instead of the color black its dark red, such an improvement :)

1:38:37 Pitch Black with a face in the static, vaguely creepy but, It just sucks because the rest sucks

1:38:45 “Go To Sleep” Shut up with your stupid Jeff The Killer cliches.

Final thoughts: Complete waste of my time and one of the worst movies I’ve watched. 0/10

[foulserpent]

Tried to find one of your Mandela catalogue rants and couldn’t (tumblr’s search’s inability to function and googling to no avail) so if you wanna rant I wouldn’t mind hearing about it

ok you are the third person to ask and i cant find the posts either LOL so i will go on the exact same rant again

basically i think like.... in some respects im being a bit of a hater bc i dont think its Bad bad, like i think theres some good aspects and i actually do like how it executes its scares irt the images, but my issue is more just that it feels like it has SO little to say and makes virtually no use of the analogue horror medium

like analogue horror by necessity almost cannot be accurate to its medium, but i think its INFINITELY better when it plays itself straight and doesnt try too hard to be scary. like the point i always get stuck on in mandela catalogue is the police training video part

like this is supposed to be in a police/ambulence dispatcher training video, and it completely demolishes suspension of disbelief. the point theyre trying to get across is "there are scary duplicate people in this town and emergency services dont know how to deal with them/dont care and are instructed not to help you". but this is written nothing like ANY dispatcher training would ever be lol like "no matter how frantic their screams are". to some extent you have to assume your audience arent stupid and can understand the creeping horror of the situation without breaking form to spell it out to them

and in general in terms of mandela catalogue having very few fresh ideas. yeah the "alternates" thing is so PROFOUNDLY played out, like this specific brand of "thing that is like a human but.......Wrong" has literally dominated online horror for like the past decade or so and its just SO stale to me. they arent really doing anything fresh with it imo.

and yeah- doesnt really use the medium effectively at least as far as im concerned. i dont even really know why they bothered with it, especially given that it doesnt even try to stick to a specific medium or explain why these videos exist? and i dont think doing something Different and genre-breaking is a bad thing, but i dont think its Intentional and thus isnt utilized well (like im not personally into it but i think walten files is a good example of pushing the medium in a more intentional and successful way)

AND THE LAST THING. i actually LOVE the appropriation of terrifying old police sketches as a concept, but even then its using these images that anyone really interested in creepy shit has probably seen 200 times. like its a cool idea but im not gonna be impressed by literally the first image results for "creepy police sketches" being slapped on the screen. idk like ymmv with that bc if you HAVENT happened to have seen these before they Really are creepy, but the effect is like. annihilated if you recognize them.

the distorted faces are kind of the highlight of the whole thing bc some really are creepy but its just like, it has very little substance beyond that to me. yeah thats my rant. currently have edibles taking effect so apologies for any bad wording