Sep 16, 2017
Cinema without people: Pop Skull (2007, Adam Wingard, dir.) Love the lo-fi, grubby basement aesthetic here
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Cinema without people: Pop Skull (2007, Adam Wingard, dir.) Love the lo-fi, grubby basement aesthetic here
Characters alone in Pop Skull (2007, Adam Wingard, dir.)
Lane Hughes in Pop Skull (Dir. Adam Wingard)
What are you taking today? Is it Benadryl? Is it Zicam? Is it Coricidin? Or are you gonna try the Dramamine again?
365 Films Part 3: 282/365
Pop Skull
October Screening 49: Pop Skull (2007)
I traced mumblegore further back to this early gem from Adam Wingard (again, You're Next is so fucking good) about a heartbroken Alabama pill addict who lives in his parents' possibly-haunted basement. There's an epilepsy warning right off-top, assuring us we're strapping in for a very disorienting experience. If you find the first seizurrific trip-out sequence at all annoying, just turn the movie off, because it only cranks things up from there. It's been labeled as "acid horror" and that's spot-on, so you can either get irritated or just go with it. I went with it gladly.
It was made for about $2,000 total, clearly one of those movies made by somebody who was going to make a goddamn movie, no matter what, and I love that about it. Its resourcefulness is evident in every frame. I didn't mind the early digital look of it at all - if anything, it helped me feel more like a fly on the wall for this poor kid's trip through hell. There's a lo-fi intimacy to it that lulled me into a kind of comfortable familiarity, like I was hanging out in a high school friend's basement, which made the movie the movie that much scarier for me once it started spiraling into spooksville.
Pop Skull is a unique, chilling & surprisingly personal movie that couldn't help but get its director more work. If you have the tolerance for experimental cinema, I heartily recommend. (watch the trailer!)
And holy shit, that's a wrap on October! Only took me another month to catch up on writing about it...
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