Festivals: Popcorn Frights

We've safely crossed into September! That means it's Halloween season at the movies. To celebrate, Popcorn Frights' Wicked Weekend 2024 will thrill horror-movie lovers with its "annual celebration of all the eerie, weird, wild, and strange things that go bump...

Michelle Iannantuono's horror thriller stars Michael Smallwood, Kristopher Bosch, and Christopher Trindade.

Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with the world premiere of Beezel and the Florida premiere of Strange Darling. The festival will be a hybrid experience, presenting both in-theater and virtual film offerings, running...

“I can't deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me.” Sally Field 1985   Few festival awards are as meaningful to the creative team behind a film as the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. You...

Last week we shared that our friends at The Horror Collective had acquired Jason Miller's horror flick, Ghosts of the Void. The flick was having its final festival screening at Popcorn Frights last weekend, after which we would have to...

It’s funny that the first point of reference that comes to mind when watching folk horror film Saint Drogo, the second film from the team behind drag-world slasher Death Drop Gorgeous, isn’t The Wicker Man or even Midsommar, but last...

A criminal fixer who experiences auditory hallucinations must confront old demons when a new contract drags him into a surreal maelstrom of mind-altering drugs, delusional vigilantes, and a sadistic hypnotist who seems more monster than man.

There's no better way for genre fans in the southeast U.S. to bid adieu to Summer than to go to Popcorn Frights Film Festival in August.  The festival will boast twenty world premieres this year, including Do Not Disturb, from...

Genre cinema encompasses all manner of action, adventure, fantasy, martial arts, mystery, science fiction, superheroes, suspense and thrillers, coming from all parts of the world. Tiny Cinema is a new film by Tyler Cornack (of Butt Boy fame) that will...

Yesterday Shudder announced that they will release Brandon Christensen's horror flick Superhost on the streaming service across all their territories on September 2nd. Superhost will have its world premiere at Popcorn Frights, the Florida based genre festival, tomorrow night.   ...

By all accounts everyone who virtually attended the Nightstream digital film festival had a great time. It was short (really, too short) and most certainly it was sweet.   While we hope we do not have to do this type...

You kind of had the sense that when Nightstream was announced, that if this many great festival minds were to combine their powers that the result of their efforts would be something really, really exceptional. If not, a pox on...

In August it was announced that our friends from the Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights film festivals would be combining their powers for good. This collection of U.S. Genre Film Festivals announced a collective virtual...