TALES OF LOHR: "SKINAMARINK"

Thoughts on Kyle Edward Ball's arthouse horror debut; plus, "Factory Roll Call" on the real director (?) of Warhol's mid-'60s classics

Fear of the unknown is the driving engine of horror as a narrative and aesthetic form, and few recent horror films test the capabilities of this engine quite like Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink. This avant-garde experiment, shot for $15,000 in Ball’s childhood home, is constructed of the rawest possible materials available to the horror filmmaker. It’s …