POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023 WRAP-UP
Each year, Popcorn Frights brings some the best in new and classic horror and this year was no different. Here’s a list of the films I got to check out this year. Click on any link to read the review or check out the Letterboxd list. Abruptio Agatha The Banality Beaten to Death The Black […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Frogman (2023)
The Loveland Frogman was first sighted by a traveling salesman driving along an unnamed road late at night in 1955. 15 years later, Loveland police officer Ray Shockey was driving on Riverside Drive near the Totes boot factory and the Little Miami River when an unidentified animal scurried across the road — like some kind […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: That’s A Wrap (2023)
The cast of a film arrives to the movie’s wrap party, but someone has dressed up as the slasher from the film and begins to stage their own kill scenes. One by one, the cast is killed off until the true nature of the evening is revealed. This movie takes a page out of Scream by […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: The Black Mass (2023)
Set over a 24-hour period in 1978 Florida, this movie has a man named Ted (Andrew Sykes) shoplifting and trying to get with someone, anyone and always getting shot down. Director and writer (with Eric Pereira and Brandon Slagle) Devanny Pinn buries the lead quite well, even if I knew who Ted was, knew what would […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: South Beach (1993)
Fred Williamson has made more than twenty movies as part of his Po’ Boy production company, often directing or co-directing — like this film, he had help making the movie from Alain Zaloum and a script by Michael Thomas Montgomery — the movies. This is the first and not the last of these movies that […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Psychosis (2023)
Director and writer Pirie Martin has created a black and white nightmare that was one of the more unique films I’ve seen lately. Cliff Van Aarle (Derryn Amoroso) is a crime scene cleaner who suffers from auditory hallucinations. That’s exactly what you want wrong with you when you’re mopping up a headless body, right? Cliff […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Watchdog (2023)
After narrowly surviving a violent mugging thanks to the help of a drifter, Travis Wilkes invites the man back to the home where he lives with his girlfriend. Somehow, he’s gone from nearly dying to transforming his home into a night of terror and revenge. Holt is also an actor, appearing in You’re Next, Time’s Up, […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: The Banality (2022)
Directed by Michael Stevantoni and Strack Azar, The Banality is about a feral child who is adopted by a young couple. Known as “Feral Boy,” Father Moss (Sherman Augustus) introduces the child to the couple and for eleven years, all is well, before the once feral child is killed in a hit and run accident. Can the […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Nightmare (1981)
After mutilating and murdering a family, George Tatum has been jailed for years. Now, he has been given the opportunity to be reprogrammed and returned to society. That said — he still has nightmares of his childhood and a trip to a Times Square peep show unlocks flashbacks that make him a killer all over […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Sour Party (2023)
Gwen (Samantha Westervelt) and James (Amanda Drexton, who co-directed this with Michael A. Drexton and co-wrote this with him and Westervelt) are going nowhere and doing nothing but still have to get to a baby shower for Gwen’s sister where the only gift left on the registry is Baby’s First Wellness Kit, complete with essential […]
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