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Directed by | Adam Wingard |
Written by | Lane Hughes E. L. Katz Adam Wingard |
Produced by | Lane Hughes E. L. Katz Peter Katz Adam Wingard |
Starring | Lane Hughes E. L. Katz Adam Wingard |
Cinematography | Adam Wingard |
Edited by | Adam Wingard |
Music by | Jasper Lee Kyle McKinnon |
Distributed by | HALO 8 Entertainment |
Release dates | |
Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,000 |
Pop Skull is a 2007 American film directed, co-produced, and edited by Adam Wingard, who co-wrote the screenplay with Lane Hughes and E. L. Katz. It stars Hughes, Katz, and Wingard. It is primarily regarded as a horror film but has been noted for incorporating elements of genres such as drama, psychedelic, romance, and thriller.
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Daniel, a young Mexican-American pill addict living in Alabama, finds that his attempts to cope with his day-to-day trials collide with the increasing influence of the murderous and displaced spirits that inhabit his home.
In 2003, Wingard approached Hughes with the idea of making a semi-autobiographical film about a recent breakup. [1] They conceived the film as "one-part psychedelic, one-part horror, and one-part romance" and made it on an extremely low budget of $2,000. [2]
Pop Skull screened at the Rome Film Festival, American Film Institute's AFI Fest, [2] [3] and the New Zealand International Film Festival. [1] [4]
Reviews were generally mixed to positive. LA Splash said Hughes gave "a truly magnetic Manson vibe the entire time" which allowed Wingard "to make great use of the extreme close-up". Filmmaker Stephen Susco remarked that it was "unlike any horror film you've ever seen—or will ever see", while Variety called it "powerful" and suggested it created a new genre called "acid horror". [5] The film won the jury award at the Boston Underground Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Indianapolis International Film Festival.