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.

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.

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