POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Wintertide (2023)
Directed by John Barnard, who co-wrote the script with Carrie-May Siggins, Wintertide is about Beth (Niamh Carolan) whose world is battling a plague brought on by unending days of night and near-constant winter. She’s trapped in an isolated northern town close to Manitoba where the few people left are mindless zombies, overcome by depression, but at […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
The same people who made this made the equally wild Lake Michigan Monster. Let me sell you on this: it’s a Merrie Melodies-influenced black and white no dialogue movie about an applejack maker whose life is ruined by beavers, so he fights back against them as a trapped and finds himself up against, well, hundreds of […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Beaten to Death (2023)
Directed by Sam Curtain, who co-wrote this with Benjamin Jung-Clarke, Beaten to Death starts with Jack (Thomas Roach) being brutalized by Ricky (Justan Wagner) as the body of his wife Rachel (Nicole Tudor) lies dead next to them. Barely alive, Jack stabs the man in the throat and stumbles out of the room. He runs into […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Nightbreed (1999)
I decided to go with the unfairly maligned Nightbreed, a movie that I haven’t seen since it played in theaters in 1990. Directed by Clive Barker and based on his 1988 novella Cabal, this movie was a commercial and critical failure. Barker has always claimed that the producers tried to sell the film as a run of […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Don’t Look Away (2023)
A gang of criminals unintentionally unleashes a supernatural force — a killer mannequin! — and a young woman named Frankie (Kelly Bastard) knows that it’s coming for her. In fact, the first time she sees it, she accidentally kills a trucker. And once you see the mannequin, it only stops stalking you when you’re dead. […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: A Wandering Path (The Story of Gilead Media) (2023)
Featuring interviews with the members of Thou, Neurosis, Enslaved, Panopticon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Yellow Eyes, Couch Slut, Blood Incantation, Krallice, Mizmor, Weigedood, Hell, Leech, Mania, Inter Arma and many more, as well as performances by several of those artists, A Wandering Path is really the story of Adam Bartlett, who started the Gilead Media record label in […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Bloody Bridget (2023)
Bridget O’Brien (Anastasia Elfman, The Once and Future Smash, Aliens, Clowns & Geeks) is a red-haired waitress and burlesque dancer at a Van Nuys dive bar where she performs Grand Guignol-style dance routines with her partners Pepe (Marcos Mateo Ochoa) and Leticia (Naomi de la Cruz) while avoiding the sexual come-ons of her boss Tony (Tom Ayers). […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Ghosts of the Void (2023)
Jen (Tedra Milan) is a photographer and her husband, Tyler (Michael Reagan) is a novelist. They’ve been evicted from their home, they’re low on gas and completely out of money. You could say at least they have each other, but Tyler’s confidence issues have driven a wedge between the couple. As they barely make it […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Invoking Yell (2023)
South of Chile, if not heaven, a trio of twenty-something women have formed a black metal band, Invoking Yell, and taken to the woods to record their first album. They decide that to capture their sound, they need to find psicofonias, quite literally the voices of dead children killed in a schoolbus accident, inside the […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Dark Windows (2023)
Tilly (Anna Bullard), Monica (Annie Hamilton), Peter (Rory Alexander) and Allison (Grace Binford Sheene).are in a car crash and everyone survives except Allison, whose uncle blames them for her death. Monica has a plan for the summer, as she thinks they should all get out of town and go to the country. That way they […]
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