POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Blood Feast (1963)
I’m proud to say that Herschell Gordon Lewis was born in the same town as me, Pittsburgh, PA. He was lured from a career as an educator into being a radio station manager and then, well, advertising got him. I can relate. I’ve spent the better part of 25 years doing the same. But then Lewis […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Friday the 13th Part III 3D (1982)
With Amy Steel uninterested in returning to the series, the filmmakers had to reboot and figure out what made Jason tick. And that ticking was a hockey mask — three movies into the series. The original plan was that Ginny would be confined to a psychiatric hospital and he would track her down, then murder the […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Subject (2022)
Instead of going to jail, Willem (Stephen Phillips) takes a different sentence, in which he has to stay all alone in an isolated facility. Phillips takes on so much in this, because he’s largely on screen all by himself for the entire run time. While watching the monster, Willem reflects on his life, like how […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Sorry, Charlie (2023)
Charlie (Kathleen Kenny) is a remote helpline volunteer who comes into the grip of The Gentleman, a sinister being that uses the sound of a crying baby to lure people into his destructive embrace. One night, while home alone, she realizes that she is anything but when she hears an infant outside her home. Directed […]
Anak ng dilim (1997)
Anak ng dilim (Child of Darkness) proves that director Nick Lizaso and writer Bong Ramos know that if you’re going to copy, copy from the best. Based on Carrie, this Philippines-shot horror movie is pretty much the same story. A young girl named Adela (Gladys Reyes) tries to go to public school and all the cool […]
Vahset Kasirgasi (1985)
Vahset Kasirgasi (Brutal Storm) was directed and written by Kadir Akgün and is the story of Naide (Nur Incegül) and Cahide (Leyla Akin), two sisters who own the Gul Hotel in a beautiful tourist town in the South of Turkey. I don’t know what type of guests the sisters were expecting, but the loose moral […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 10: She’ll Be Company for You (1972)
Henry Auden (Leonard Nimoy) is dealing with the loss of his wife, who died after years of a prolonged illness, a time in which he played caregiver. All he can feel is relief, but it’s a strange place to be in, a man who has been more nurse than a husband to a woman who […]
Papi Gudia (1996)
Zapatlela is not the only movie from India that was inspired by Child’s Play. Directed by Lawrence D’Souza and written by Talat Rekhi, Papi Gudia starts when a criminal named Charandas (Shakti Kapoor) escapes the police and runs into a toy store. Before he dies, he transfers his soul into a doll named Channi which is sold […]
Watch last week’s DIA Double Feature with Roger Braden
This past Saturday, Roger Braden from Valley Nightmares joined us for Fright Night II and The Power. Now you can watch the episode and don’t even need to stay up late!
GET READY FOR POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023!
The Popcorn Frights Film Festival is here! Established in 2015 by Miami locals Igor Shteyrenberg and Marc Ferman, it has quickly grown into the leading international genre film festival in Southeast United States. The Festival is hosted at the O Cinema South Beach, located just across the street from the world-famous Ocean Drive boulevard in […]
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