POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: T-Blockers (2023)
Director and co-writer Alice Maio Mackay is just eighteen years old, but across her last two films — So Vam and Bad Girl Boogey — she’s improved from an already solid start. Now, with T-Blockers, co-written with Benjamin Pahl Robinson, there’s another leap forward. Sash VO (Joni Ayton-Kent Sash) is a young horror filmmaker with a cop dad that […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: The Last Movie Ever Made (2023)
Directed and written by Nathan Blackwell, this film finds Marshall (Adam Rini) at the end of the world, deciding that he should bring together a group of friends and strangers — and his ex-wife Audrey (Megan Rini — to make the movie he never finished in high school. How does everyone discover that the world […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Agatha (2022)
Hoping to find a cure to the disease that is destroying him from within, The Professor follows Agatha on a strange and risky journey into a forgotten but not entirely deserted urban wasteland. Sure, that’s the logline, but this film makes getting there so different, so trippy and so intense. Kelly Bigelow and Roland Becera […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Abruptio (2023)
Les Hackel (James Marsters) is down on his luck. Maybe even worse when he wakes up to find that an explosive device has been implanted in his neck. Now, he must carry out heinous crimes in order to stay alive while trying to identify the mastermind ordering him to keep killing. Also: This is a […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Quantum Suicide (2023)
Let’s do some science. The quantum suicide thought experiment is a lot like Schrödinger’s cat. In that, a cat, A cat, a Geiger counter, and a bit of radioactive poison are placed in a sealed box. Quantum mechanics believes that after some time, we can consider the cat to be both alive and dead. If […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: No More Time (2022)
Hilarie (Jennifer Harlow) and Steve (Mark Reeb) are on the way from Texas to as mountain town in Colorado that is supposedly safe from a mysterious viral disease that makes people disappear or turn become murderers. They try and stay isolated from everyone else in the small town that they are hiding out in, as […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Parasite 3D (1982)
You know, I kind of like something in this movie. Like, I know it’s really bad but there’s something in it — and not just a young Demi Moore — that made me enjoy it. I have no idea what that was, but sometimes a movie just makes you feel like you’re taking a relaxing […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Brightwood (2022)
Dan (Max Woertendyke) and Jen (Dana Berger) are in the type of relationship where you start to wonder what it would be like without the other person. He’s embarrassed her yet again and as she runs to clear her head, he tries to follow her. The only problem? It feels like they keep going around […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Trim Season (2023)
There’s a Trim Season comic book that came out in 2022, which was based on an original concept from Megan Sutherland, Sean E DeMott and Cullen Poythress. They were inspired by the story of several women who went missing in Humboldt County, CA during a marijuana harvest. That turned into a screenplay, written by David Blair […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Eldritch USA (2023)
Geoff and Rich Brewer (Graham Weldin and Andy Phinney) have always tried to outdo one another, but Geoff always finds himself in second place against his older brother. For example, Rich will always be the anchorman on camera and Geoff will always be the one holding the camera, never seen. Yet after Rich dies in […]
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