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New horror film is ‘scariest EVER made’ as it leaves viewers ‘paralysed with fear’ – here’s how to watch it
A NEW horror film documenting a waking nightmare has been dubbed the “scariest ever made” after spooking viewers.
The terrifying new flick Skinamarink has left audiences “paralysed with fear.”
The experimental art film – created by Canadian director Kyle Edward Ball – has awoken many adults’ childhood fear of the dark.
It tells the story of brother and sister, Kevin, four, and Kaylee, six, who wake up to find their parents have disappeared.
The duo swiftly realise all the windows and doors in their home have vanished – before things start to go bump in the night.
They camp out in the living room to comfort each other, bringing pillows and blankets.
A description explains: “They play well-worn videotapes of cartoons to fill the silence of the house and distract from the frightening and inexplicable situation.
“All the while in the hopes that eventually some grown-ups will come to rescue them.
“However, after a while it becomes clear that something is watching over them.”
The horror movie then takes a dark turn as terror ensues for the two children.
Furniture disappears and reappears, toys move on their own, and the siblings even start to hear voices – leaving the audience shrinking into their younger selves.
It becomes difficult for the characters and viewers to decipher what is real and what is not.
The kids are then given a string of horrific instructions by a chilling voice who begins to converse with them.
It instructs little Kevin to gouge out his own eye with a knife in one horrifying scene.
The unnerving film transports viewers back to their childhood, powerless to the monsters lurking in the dark.
Skinamarink premiered on January 13 this year and is currently still being shown in cinemas in the US.
It has already grossed a whopping $1.5m (£1.2m) at the box office – despite being rumoured to have cost just $15,000 (£12,000) to make.
For Brits who feel brave enough to endure the movie, you can also stream it on the website Shudder.
It was described as a “waking nightmare” by the Independent, who said it evoked an “atmosphere of dread”.
Inverse echoed the comments, while boldly crowning it as the “scariest movie of all time.”
“The most sinister and downright malevolent story put to film in a long time.
“It will put a spell on you, paralyze you, and invade your very soul in a way no other film can or has even tried to.
“It is without question one of the best horror movies ever made, period,” the review concluded.
They praised the director’s carefully selected jump scares, saying they “are the most effective in recent memory.”
“Ball is calculated about when he actually places horrors for us to find in the shadows, but he knows when to pack on the scares and when to use restraint,” Inverse said.
The director was previously a popular YouTube creator who produced short films inspired by nightmares that his subscribers shared with him.
He based Skinamarink on a recurring dream he has had and filmed the petrifying movie in his childhood home in Edmonton, Canada.
Ball borrowed vintage cameras from a local film organisation and managed to wrap up the entire shoot in just seven days.
He’s pleased with its reception too, saying: “Everything that a filmmaker dreams would happen to them, except for winning an Oscar, has happened to me in the span of just a couple of months.”
According to Variety, the horror film “invites us to get back in touch with every childhood fear you ever had about some midnight monster lurking in the shadows.”
Vulture gushed that it “forgoes standard storytelling to instead try to re-create the sensation of being scared.”
And the New York Times described Skinamarink’s ability to “ingeniously evoke a child’s response to the inexplicable” as “mesmerising”.
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Brave toddler left paralysed after doctors misdiagnosed his cancer for MONTHS
THIS is the toddler who has been left PARALYSED after docs misdiagnosed his cancer for THREE MONTHS.
Brave Ollie Knowles was screaming in pain when mum Sarah, 34, took him to see doctors a staggering FIFTEEN times.
But each time they dismissed him, saying it was just constipation or colic
When his aggressive cancer was finally found, it had spread to his spine causing him to be paralysed from the waist downwards.
If it had been caught earlier, then he would never have been paralysed.
Mum Sarah, who lives in Leigh, Lancashire, with husband Phillip, 34, who works for the payroll for Bolton council, said: ‘I was very angry for a long time.
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“They said that it was because of Covid, that a lot of the appointments were over the phone as we weren’t allowed to go to the surgery.
“We have received counselling to deal with our anger about it, and we are just trying to look top the future.
“But if he had been seen earlier, then it would have been caught before it had spread to his spine and paralysed him.”
The couple first noticed that Ollie was crying a lot and had a swollen stomach in July last year. They rang the doctors but could only get a phone telephone appointment because of Covid, and doctors said they thought he was constipated.
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Sarah, who owns a snooker club, said: “He was in so much pain all the time. He had been such a happy baby so it wasn’t like him.
“The doctors said it was constipation. But I knew that something was wrong. I would put him to bed and as soon as he laid down he was screaming. Now I know that it’s because the tumour was pressing on his stomach.”
Ollie continued to cry continuously over the next three months, and the couple consulted doctors 15 times but each time was told it was constipation or colic.
Sarah said: ‘We didn’t know what to do. Nothing was working to try and ease his pain. He would just be crying and upset constantly. It was so upsetting to see him like that.’
In September, Ollie woke up one morning, and he fell to the floor when he tried to stand up.
‘IN SO MUCH PAIN’
Sarah said: ‘I thought he was messing around at first, but then I realised that he had lost all feeling and sensation in his legs.
The couple rushed him to hospital where scans revealed the terrible truth. He had an aggressive childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, with a tumour the size of an apple in his stomach. And it had spread to his spine, causing the paralysis.
Sarah said: ‘It was devastating news. We couldn’t believe what we were being told. After all this time, he had been crying because the tumour had been causing him so much pain.’
Tiny Ollie had to start aggressive chemotherapy treatment straight away at Manchester Children’s Hospital, which finished in November.
Sarah said: “He was so young he didn’t understand what was going on, but he was so poorly with the chemotherapy that every time he was allowed home, he’d develop infections and a high temperature.”
The chemotherapy has managed to shrink the tumour, but Ollie’s legs still remain paralysed.
Sarah said: “We don’t know if he will ever walk. The GP surgery has apologised and said that due to Covid his cancer has been missed.
“We have since moved surgeries. We have paid a high price from covid – it has affected people in so many more ways than just having the disease itself.
“Even though he can’t walk, Ollie is still now such a happy little boy because he isn’t in pain anymore.”
Ollie has regular scans, and his tumour is now the size of a walnut. Doctors declared him in remission in January and so far there is no sign of the tumour growing any further.
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Sarah added: ‘He is going to be ringing the end of treatment bell at the end of this month, and it will be an emotional moment for us after everything he has been through.
“We are so proud of him and how he’s coped with it all.”
Putin aide in suspected poisoning seen for the first time ‘paralysed in hospital and unable to CLOSE his eyes’
SHOCKING pictures show a former Putin ally lying in his hospital bed partially paralysed and unable to close his eyes.
Anatoly Chubais, the most senior Russian official to quit over the war in Ukraine, was rumoured to have been poisoned.
Former Putin ally Anatoly Chubais has been left paralysed by a rare condition[/caption]
He was formerly a close ally of Putin before fleeing Russia over the war in Ukraine[/caption]
Rumours swirled that he was poisoned for his disloyalty to the Kremlin[/caption]
The 67-year-old, once the Kremlin chief of staff and a former deputy prime minister, fled Russia in March and resigned from his post as Putin‘s envoy to international organisations.
When he fell ill, he was living in exile on the Italian island of Sardinia.
He has been formally diagnosed with the rare neurological disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Chubais – who led the programme to privatise Soviet industries in the 1990s – has been left with partial facial paralysis and can no longer walk or even close his eyes.
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He had been a top Kremlin official before Putin was promoted to his first job in the federal government.
News of his stricken state sparked fears that he had been poisoned, with specialists in hazmat suits descending on the site where he fell ill.
However, poisoning hasn’t been ruled out, and Italian secret services are reportedly still investigating the case.
Western intelligence fears that Russian labs have been trying to create toxins that mimic real diseases.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome, a serious and potentially life-threatening condition, affects the nerves in the feet, hands and limbs, causing numbness, weakness and pain.
“His condition has stabilised, but Anatoly [Chubais] is still in intensive care, his legs and arms do not work well, his eyes cannot be closed, and he has partial facial paralysis,” journalist and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak who first broke the story said.
Chubais is the latest senior Russian figure to suffer poisoning or die in suspicious circumstances in recent months, as rumours fly that Putin has tried to silence his growing army of critics.
A post on the General SVR Telegram channel, which claims to be run by a Kremlin insider, claimed that Chubais had been named on a so-called ‘hit list’, although provided no evidence for this allegation.
The list was made up of people supposedly hostile to Putin crony Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s security council.
Last month, there was allegedly a mysterious assassination bid on Patrushev, 71, according to the General SVR channel.
Patrushev, a former head of the FSB secret service, is seen as Putin’s stand-in when he has medical treatment and is also a key architect of the war in Ukraine.
His son, Dmitry, 44, the agriculture minister, is reportedly being groomed as Putin’s ultimate successor.
His legs and arms do not work well, his eyes cannot be closed, and he has partial facial paralysis
Ksenia Sobchak
“The list is large and contains 18 names of fairly well-known people, while Patrushev does not provide any evidence that would indicate that these people were directly related to the organisation of the assassination attempt,” the channel said.
“This is more like an attempt by the secretary of the security council to settle scores with old ‘well-wishers’ by eliminating people who are personally objectionable to him in competing clans.”
Also included in the list were allegedly “several people to whom Putin feels personal dislike or has some doubts about sincere loyalty”.
These included Anatoly Chubais, the former chairman of the board of RUSNANO and Putin’s special representative for relations with international organisations.
Other Putin foes allegedly poisoned by Kremlin hit squads include Alexander Litvinenko and ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
A considerable number of mysterious deaths of senior Russian intelligence and business figures have been reported since the start of the war.
A number of allies of Nikolai Patrushev have reportedly been placed on a hit list[/caption]
Last month, former Russian spy chief Yevgeny Lobachev was found shot dead in the entrance to a Moscow apartment building.
He shot himself with a former Soviet service pistol after suffering from health problems and “financial difficulties”, Russian media reported.
His wife called the police to say her husband had gone for a walk in the morning but never returned home.
The death had eerie similarities to the death of a fellow former spy less than a month earlier.
On June 15, former Major General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Lev Sotskov was found dead in his apartment.
He was 90 years and, according to Russian official sources, had also reportedly been suffering from unspecified health conditions.
In April, the bodies of a top Russian banker and his family were discovered at his Moscow apartment, after the bank had been slapped with Western sanctions.
Vladislav Avayev, 51, was found dead along with his wife Yelena, 47, and his 13-year-old daughter Maria at their home in the Russian capital.
Avayev was formerly the vice-president of Gazprombank, Russia’s third-largest bank and one of the main channels for payments for Russian oil and gas.
Among the Russian oligarchs who have died since the beginning of the conflict, include at least four gas industry executives.
In chilling echoes of Avayev’s death, Russian tycoon Sergey Protosenya, 55, his wife Natalya, 53, and his 18-year-old daughter Maria were discovered dead at their luxury Spanish villa.
Protosenya, who boasted a fortune of over £333million, did not leave a suicide note before allegedly hanging himself in the courtyard.
Natalia and Maria had been hacked to death in their beds with an axe in the Lloret de Mar on Spain’s Costa Brava, according to reports.
Police found the gruesome scene after the couple’s teenage son, who was in France at the time, raised concerns.
Meanwhile, just one day after Putin’s bloody invasion, the body of energy giant Gazprom’s deputy general director Alexander Tyulakov was found.
His hung body was discovered by his lover in his £500,000 home in Leningrad.
But according to reports, he had been badly beaten before his death – raising speculation over how he died.
While weeks before the invasion on January 29, Gazprom exec Leonid Shulman’s mutilated body was discovered on the bathroom floor at the same gated housing development where Tyulakov was later found.
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He was discovered with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood, next to a note, although a knife found in the bathtub would have too out-of-reach for the wounds to be self-inflicted.
Many other former close allies of Putin have either died, been jailed, or disappeared from the public eye in recent months, as rumours swirl of a possible coup.
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