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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.
Highlights include a Special Presentation of Clive Barker’s NIGHTBREED: DIRECTOR’S CUT, an Under the Stars event on Miami Beach’s famous Ocean Drive, celebrating Tobe Hooper’s all-time horror classic TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, plus seven more Virtual Film Premieres!
TERRIFIER 2, SMILE, and the North American premiere of SCARE PACKAGE II headline this year's Popcorn Frights' Wicked Weekend!
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A troubled teen boy tries to put together a friend and a family consisting of dead people in this poignant, breezy, fanciful fairy tale.
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We all know the rule. Sequels are (mostly) awful. Always (most of the the time). The further you get into a franchise the sequels will GROW proportionally more awful. Two might be passable, but by the time you get to Part IV you’ve just purchased a non-refundable one-way ticket to Stink Town. Population: suck.
★★ out of ★★★★★
The CW made a found footage horror movie! Well, not really, but it sure feels like it. Too perfect kids. Too beautiful actors. Too perfectly clean footage and technology. Replete with a rag tag group of Scooby Doo-esque paranormal researchers!
Popcorn Frights continues to hit it out of the horror park with their second wave of scheduled films and events. The record-setting scale of their 2022 lineup is inconceivable!
★★★ out of ★★★★★
This frenetic independent chiller is a fun entry in the hotel-horror subgenre.
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The son of De Palma’s Blow-Out! The grandson of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up! A new vision of paranoid conspiracy theories as told through the latest fandangled piece of technology! Or in this case technologies.
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Though it doesn’t bring much new to the “teens in peril because they played a ghost-summoning game” subgenre, Queen of Spades: The Looking Glass offers enough visual flair and cultural differences to make it worth seeking out.
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The first zombie movie filmed in Venezuela hits the screen with some biting social commentary.
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A curious little space-western-thriller, with a standout acting job by Pedro Pascal.
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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!
Old Man ★★★★ out of ★★★★★
Pussycake ★★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
Two wild features from Popcorn Frights are both worth putting on your cinema radar.
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Covering every entry in the long running Child's Play franchise, this finely crafted documentary is sure to be a hit with fans of the wise-cracking killer doll, Chucky, and horror lovers in general.
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Many horror films try, but equally, many films fail to concoct the perfect period piece. Often times concepts for period pieces in the world of horror seem to be centered around someone’s uncle who has a really mint 1977 Trans Am. Seems like an easy tasked to build an entire film around some funky vintage clothes and a sweet ride, but more often than not it’s a task where many fail.
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Fans of horror comedy should consider the deliciously delirious horror comedy anthology Tiny Cinema required viewing.
Florida's Popcorn Frights genre festival is coming back in 2022 with another monumental lineup! Here's what we know so far.
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Lace up your hiking boots and grab your headlamp for a journey underground in It Came From Below.
We have seen the future of Horror Film Festivals, and it was the big Nightstream festival. While it was disappointing not to be able to go to these events in person, the streaming digital festival delivered a wealth of great movies, shorts, and special events that both horrified and delighted us. Listen in to the Scariest Things team report on our favorite moments.
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A beautifully shot Lovecraftian tale of classical music and madness.
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It's time to pick on the arachnophobes again.
The next big horror film festival is coming to Fort Lauderdale next month!