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Popcorn Frights Film Festival 2023

Arts and Entertainment

July 18, 2023

From: Popcorn Frights Film Festival

Schedule:

Monday, July 24th, 2023

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Sympathy for the Devil - Classic Gateway Theater

Nicolas Cage is back and more unhinged than ever in one of his craziest roles yet in SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, and we're absolutely here for it! After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger (Nicolas Cage) at gunpoint, a man (Joel Kinnaman) finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

Thursday, August 10th, 2023

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Deliver Us - Savor Cinema

Featuring The Attendance Of Directors Cru Ennis & Lee Roy Kunz, Producer Isaac Bauman, And Star Maria Vera Ratti!

Dark, wicked, and devilishly fun, DELIVER US is a dread-soaked nightmare that ratchets up the horror with a menacing atmosphere and an unholy amount of gore galore. From an age-old prophecy emerges an unspeakable vision, shrouded in darkness and dripping with terror. A nun claims to have immaculately conceived twins — one will be the Messiah, the other the Anti-Christ. Gripped by terror, the Vatican sends priests to investigate the nun’s unholy truth. As the veil of darkness lifts, the unspeakable becomes undeniable with a chilling decree resonating through Vatican City: the annihilation of both souls. When an American priest uncovers this grotesque truth, he aids the tormented nun’s escape to cursed Estonia. Pursued relentlessly, they battle against damnation as the world teeters on eternal destruction.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Blood Feast - Savor Cinema

Celebrating 60 Years Since The Release Of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Gore-Fest Masterpiece Blood Feast – Accompanied By A Live Original Score Performance By Miami Artist Richard Vergez.

“There has been nothing so appalling in the annals of horror! More grisly than ever in blood color!” Shot in Florida all around Miami Beach, pioneering genre filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis’ original gore-fest BLOOD FEAST brims with mad, macabre, and just downright bizarre as the first-ever splatter movie. Swoon at the violence in this unhinged, gore-soaked extravaganza as we celebrate its 60th anniversary with the special accompaniment of a live original score performance.

Dorothy Fremont is looking to throw a party unlike any other, and she gets just that when the decidedly sinister Fuad Ramses caters the event. Promising to provide her guests with an authentic Egyptian feast, Ramses promptly acquires the necessary ingredients: the body parts of young nubiles. Featuring a host of stomach-churning gore gags including the infamous “tongue” sequence, BLOOD FEAST more than lives up to its name and remains essential viewing for any self-respecting horror fan.

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM: Big Easy Queens - Savor Cinema

Featuring A Live Performance With A 4 Piece Band And Big Easy Queens Stars Miss Bouvèé, Jennifer Mcclain, Matthew Darren, And Benjamin Shaevitz! Director Erynn Dalton And Stars From The Film Will Also Participate In A Q&A After The Premiere!

Eighty minutes of pure horror queer celebration with original musical numbers, voodoo, zombies, Drag Queens, and campy neo-giallo delight soaked in blood, gristle, and glitter, oh my! In this “glam horror” righteous extravaganza, a battle for territory requires the Bouvèé sisters to set aside their differences to become the “Big Easy Queens!” Entirely made-in-Florida and set in the steamy underworld, BIG EASY QUEENS follows Minnie Bouvèé, Mob Queen of the Quarter, and her rivalry with her arch-nemesis, Poodles Makenzie. After Minnie Bouvèé has Poodles Makenzie’s crew brutally slaughtered, she braces for the blowback; what she doesn’t expect, however, is to be stalked by a creepy masked figure who leaves behind bouquets of gardenias and terrifying notes. Is this Poodles’ revenge, or the work of Minnie’s estranged sister who stole her man years ago and has suddenly reappeared in her life?

11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Friday the 13th III 3-D - Savor Cinema

“A new dimension in terror… You will witness the most revolutionary process in 3D history! There will be nowhere to hide!” Building on the genre-defining style of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART II, this is the crown jewel of the 1980s 3D revival — and also an exceptionally stoned party slasher. In this chapter, Jason Voorhees dons his iconic hockey mask for the first time and continues to unleash gory chaos on the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake. Directed by Steve Miner (HALLOWEEN H20), FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III returns to the big screen for the first time in decades with a gorgeous new 3D restoration.

Look out, campers! Back at scenic Camp Crystal Lake, Jason (portrayed by Richard Brooker) slashes his way through a group of rich kids just trying to have a little summer fun, as well as a gang of grizzled bikers. They find themselves in a bloody game of cat-and-mouse with the maniacal Jason who stalks their every move… and ruthlessly kills them off one-by-one.

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

Saturday, August 12th, 2023

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Perpetrator - Savor Cinema

Somewhere between camp and Cronenberg (both father and son) lies PERPETRATOR, a freakish horror film from Popcorn Frights alum Jennifer Reeder (KNIVES AND SKIN) — particularly if your taste includes sadistic masked murderers, plastic surgery victims, high-school cheerleaders turned robbers, and a birthday cake filled with cups of fresh hemoglobin. This, plus lots more gore and insanity are at the heart of this unsettling story about a teenager who gains supernatural abilities through a mystical transformation, just as girls from her new school go missing. With an unforgettable Alicia Silverstone playing a suburban auntie from hell, this coming-of-age high-school body-horror tale will get under your skin, but like the transgressive surrealism of David Lynch, inside of it lies a beating heart — quite literally, you will see — that yearns to express itself.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Silent Madness 3-D - Savor Cinema

“There is a sound you’ll here when the screaming stops…!” The underseen over-the-top slasher SILENT MADNESS had a very limited theatrical release in 1984, and is most notable for being one of the final films released as part of the 3-D movie boom of the 1980s. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience this eighties slasher the way it was meant to be seen: leaping off the screen in full stereoscopic 3-D gory… er, glory!

“He’s out now… the terror has just begun!”A glitch in the computer system at an asylum for the criminally insane results in the accidental release of a homicidal maniac, who returns to his old chopping grounds and goes on an axe-wielding rampage! Will the dedicated young psychiatrist be able to stop the killer before he makes mincemeat out of some clueless sorority girls? It’s like HALLOWEEN mixed with BLACK CHRISTMAS, with a bit of FRIDAY THE 13TH thrown in for good measure!

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: The Puppetman - Savor Cinema

FEATURING THE ATTENDANCE OF WRITER/DIRECTOR BRANDON CHRISTENSEN!

Get ready for an electrifying dive into darkness with THE PUPPETMAN, where innocence is shattered, evil looms, and a horrifying curse tightens its grip, threatening to consume all. Locked away on death row, The Puppetman, a convicted killer, vehemently insists that a malevolent entity manipulated his every murderous act. As darkness engulfs Michal, the killer’s daughter, a sinister revelation dawns upon her when her loved ones fall victim to savage and merciless deaths. In a race against time, Michal is thrust into a harrowing battle, desperately seeking to unravel the enigma of The Puppetman’s curse before it claims the lives of all she holds dear. This new nightmare from Popcorn Frights alum Brandon Christensen (STILL/BORN, Z, SUPERHOST) will keep you sweating on the edge of your seat with its memorably grotesque imagery, sinister chills, and fresh diabolical twists.

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Jaws 3-D - Savor Cinema

The most famous shark of all time is back… bigger and more terrifying than ever in JAWS 3-D! Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this monumentally fun sequel in a 3D experience overflowing with severed-limb-and-head-floating, dolphin-jumping, slow-motion-water-ski-jumping, harpoon-firing, fake-dragons-and-snakes-popping-out, shark-exploding, goo-spraying glorious-3D. This is what 3D was made for! No, this is what summer was made for!

Everyone at Florida’s Sea World is thrilled with the new “Undersea Kingdom,” a maze of underwater plexiglass tunnels that permits visitors to get closer to marine life than ever before. The opening ceremonies include many important guests… and one uninvited baby shark who accidentally enters the park’s lagoon through a faulty sea gate and subsequently dies. The young shark’s 35-foot mother soon follows her offspring, creating the most horrifying tale of terror ever filmed in the water. Directed by Joe Alves, the original Jaws designer, co-written by Carl Gottlieb who penned the first two blockbusters, and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, and Louis Gossett Jr., this action-packed adventure will have you screaming for your life.

11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Santastein - Savor Cinema

Featuring The Attendance Of Directors Benjamin Edelman & Manuel Camilion, Producer Vasisth Sukul, And Actors Jared Korotkin, Makenzie Rivera, Kaylie Heyner, And Fernando Morales!

For fans of holiday horror, the gruesome slice of made-in-Florida mayhem SANTASTEIN is a gift! This slasher that puts the axe back in Xmas centers on Max, who when he was only six years old, accidentally burned Santa to a crisp on Christmas Eve. 12 years later, Max attempts to raise Santa from the dead in order to fix his past mistakes and restore the Christmas spirit. But he soon realizes that the creature he has created is a bloodthirsty killer – and it’s headed straight for his friend’s Christmas party! Buckle in for some bloody holiday cheer that will leave you having a ho-ho-whole lot of fun!

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

Sunday, August 13th, 2023

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Trim Season - Savor Cinema

In this one-of-a-kind cannabis chiller, a group of twenty-somethings from Los Angeles head up the coast to make quick cash trimming marijuana on a secluded farm in Northern California. Cut off from the rest of the world, they soon realize that the estate is harboring darker secrets than any of them could imagine, as they race against time to escape the dense woods with their lives.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: The Dive - Savor Cinema

In this anxiety-inducing underwater thriller, a deep-sea dive at one of the world’s most remote spots becomes a fight for survival for two estranged sisters when a catastrophic landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea, trapping one in the depths and forcing the other to make life-and-death decisions that puts her own life at risk to pay the ultimate sacrifice. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and no help in sight, time is quickly running out! Filled with breathtaking action, THE DIVE will take you on an edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckled journey into the great unknown.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Parasite 3-D - Savor Cinema

“In the year 1992, we may all be living in fear of… PARASITE… created to reproduce and to kill.” Released to theaters as “The First Futuristic Monster Movie in 3-D,” this sick shocker stars Demi Moore in her feature film debut, Runaways rocker Cherie Currie (FOXES), drive-in goddess Cheryl ‘Rainbeaux’ Smith (CAGED HEAT), and is directed by cult great Charles Band (PUPPET MASTER franchise) and features juicy creature effects by Academy Award-winner Stan Winston (THE THING, ALIENS). Experience retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror in the super-rare 3D presentation of the 80s hidden gem PARASITE!

In the future, cities are ravaged by atomic fallout and controlled by evil corporations that have developed a mutant pair of flesh-eating parasites. One is feeding inside the man who created it. The other has escaped. Now with the help of a young woman left orphaned in the wasteland (Demi Moore in her feature film debut), a scientist on the run must destroy these horrific creatures before they can reproduce. But the more a parasite feeds, the bigger it becomes. And the more it grows, the hungrier and angrier it gets!

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

Monday, August 14th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

Tuesday, August 15th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

- The Last Movie Ever Made

- Agatha

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

- The Last Movie Ever Made

- Agatha

- Ghosts of the Void

- Invoking Yell

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

- The Last Movie Ever Made

- Agatha

- Ghosts of the Void

- Invoking Yell

- The Banality

- A Wandering Path

Friday, August 18th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Abruptio

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

- The Last Movie Ever Made

- Agatha

- Ghosts of the Void

- Invoking Yell

- The Banality

- A Wandering Path

- Wintertide

Saturday, August 19th, 2023

Virtual Films:

- Subject

- Sorry, Charlie

- T Blockers

- Puzzle Box

- Psychosis

- Saint Drogo

- Brightwood

- Eldritch USA

- Quantum Suicide

- No More Time

- The Last Movie Ever Made

- Agatha

- Ghosts of the Void

- Invoking Yell

- The Banality

- A Wandering Path

- Wintertide

- Watchdog

Date: August 10 - 20, 2023

Location:

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The Classic Gateway Theatre, 1820 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

Savor Cinema, 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.

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