Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Popcorn Frights! There's MORE! The popular festival is hosting its annual Wicked Weekend in Fort Lauderdale, featuring eight film events in five days. Seven highly anticipated preview screenings are going to be shown plus a 25th Anniversary screening of Halloween H20. It's a live in-theater event only, so plan your trip to Florida now!
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Imagine if Terrance Malik directed a horror film. This isn’t the start of a bad joke with an equally bad punchline. Would it have gore? Chainsaws? Over the top supernatural happenings? Or would it be a somber and contemplative affair? If you know the films of Terrance Malik then you know the answer.
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Sorry Charlie is a one-woman showcase for actress Kathleen Kenny, who plays Charlie, a crisis hotline volunteer who survives a serial rapist attack, but is convinced that he is still stalking her. A great cat and mouse thriller with a compelling central figure who has managed to avoid being just another victim.
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Hundreds of Beavers is a genre and expectation defying film. It is a black and white "silent" black comedy, using furries and Looney Tunes manic comic violence to huge effect. This indie darling has been racking up best-of-film awards at numerous film festivals, and The Scariest Things can thank the Popcorn Frights Film Festival for this screening. One of the funniest things you are likely to see, and a big theater showing would be a blast. (Only horror adjacent though)
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Skinamarink with real scares! Found footage follies! The year of Australian horror! Puzzle Box is the complete horror spook show!
If you haven’t been paying attention 2023 really is the year of Australian horror.
Highlights include seven feature film World Premieres, a special spotlight of made-in-Florida films, and a live original score performance for Herschell Gordon Lewis’ splatter masterpiece BLOOD FEAST for its 60th anniversary. Plus, a “1983-D” celebration of 3-D films and a focus on the “Australian Invasion” of bold new genre films coming from down under!