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Pop Skull

2007 · 89 min

A disorienting, feverish descent into addiction and haunting that feels like a bad dream you can't wake from.

Directed by
Adam Wingard
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Lane Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Maggie Gwin
Overview
Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams.

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Directed by
Adam Wingard
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Starring
Lane Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Maggie Gwin
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • isolation
  • grief
  • madness
  • death
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror8
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
horror, thriller
Directed by
Adam Wingard
Written by
Adam Wingard, Lane Hughes, E.L. Katz
Starring
Lane Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Maggie Gwin, Hannah Hughes, Jeff Dylan Graham, Adam Wingard, E.L. Katz
Runtime
89 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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