Skin & Bone (2022) User Reviews

Bad dreams in the barnyard.

[Pjtaylor-96-138044 · 6/10 · 21 June 2023]

'Skin & Bone (2022)' is a slow-burning short film about an enigmatic man who goes to work on a reclusive woman's farm after deciding it's better to be alone. The piece has a strong sense of earthy atmosphere to it, and its horror is very subdued. Its concept is purposefully elusive, with an ambiguous undercurrent that keeps you guessing as to where it's going to go. There's a key moment early on that all but reveals the short's final hand if you're paying attention, but it works as a nice bit of foreshadowing rather than an overtly blunt blunder. The acting is understated yet effective, the editing is assured and the cinematography is - for lack of a better term - professional. The narrative is a bit too oblique to be massively compelling, but it works well enough for what it is and is suitably mysterious. It's a well-made effort that favours its vibe over its story and remains engaging for its majority.

Nice surprise

[bekiwij · 9/10 · 18 June 2023]

I came across this accidentally. I was surprised to see Amanda Seyfried acting in a short horror film on YouTube. However, it was a great film and although I'm still not clear about the message, overall cinematography acting dialogues atmosphere, everything is great. It had a real mysterious horror vibe to it. However, I interpreted this film as a message from a man's point of view about relationships with women. How men often feel trapped in their relationships. How they often feel emotionally played by women . For example when She called him WEAK , it flipped him off . At the end she walks up to him and says it is just a bad dream in a loving caring motherly way which calms him down .Final scene is Serene feeding her farm animals and there's a new goat with one blind eye . He is completely under her spell :) I think it is about that or I'm completely off the rails lol.

at a farm, a difter

[Kirpianuscus · 13 June 2023]

Fascination about version of story of Circe is the basic good point of this short film . Second, the precise portrait of Selene offered by Amanda Seyfried and well crafted game of ambiguitz.

The atmosphere represents just the fundamental virtue . The cinematography becomes source of encounter with old myths and the dialogue sustains the tension in admirable manner.

In short, a great work, scene by scene, and perfect end .

Old fairy tales crumbs, nice acting and inspired way to guide the viewer in circle of misteries and apparences. Knowing some about cultural references can be fair key to discover the richness of story and the wise accents of it.