TEACHER’S PET In Popcorn Frights 2025 selection TEACHER’S PET, Clara’s identity at her private school revolves around her economic status. Her high academic achievements earned her a contingent scholarship to Yale, which only further isolates her. Her foster home is a complicated mix of abuse by her stepfather and love from her stepmother. Following the suicide of her English teacher, Read More →
LIZZIE LAZARUS Filmmaker Aviv Rubinstien gives Popcorn Frights 2024 audiences a reason to stand up and cheer with LIZZIE LAZARUS. Set in 1990, Bethany’s sister dies in a car crash on the way to her house. Lizzie’s mental state causes Bethany to question if her death was intentional. Enlisting the assistance of Lizzie’s ex, Eli, truth is stranger than fiction. Read More →
BIRTHRITE Director Ross Partridge brings a dark and nuanced story to Popcorn Frights 2024 audiences. When a pregnant woman inherits a country home, she and her girlfriend move in with happy expectations. But something from the town’s past looms over everyone. Medical gaslighting, similar to Kindred, details authentic feelings of pregnant individuals, loss or not. But, BIRTHRITE‘s sinister underpinnings weave Read More →
THE NIGHT IS YOUNG Director Patrick Rea’s THE NIGHT IS YOUNG comes to Popcorn Frights 2024. Jumping on the content creator subgenre, or perhaps a page out of the REC playbook, this vampire romance uses all the best tropes for a breezy homegrown horror. Jake Jackson wears all the hats as cinematographer, special effects makeup artist, and Nora’s brother Jake. Read More →
BOOGER In filmmaker Mary Dauterman‘s Popcorn Frights film, BOOGER, Anna spirals following the sudden death of her roommate. Holding tight to Izzy’s phone and their adopted stray cat. When Booger bites her and escapes out the window, Anna’s grief journey is derailed by unusual symptoms from her injury. Heather Matarazzo‘s initial appearance is one of the best scenes in the Read More →
CHÂTEAU Filmmaker Luke Genton tells the story of a wannabe influencer living in Paris looking for a hook. Short on cash, she accepts a cleaning job, not knowing the location is an infamous murder castle. Thinking this might be her internet 15 minutes, she brings her nonexistent audience on the job. CHÂTEAU gives Popcorn Frights 2024 the YouTube ghost-hunting treatment. Read More →
STRANGE DARLING Kyle Gallner, undisputed Scream King (and my secret music boyfriend), stars alongside Willa Fitzgerald in JT Mollner‘s bonkers thriller STRANGE DARLING. Popcorn Frights 2024 audiences finally witness the unbelievable story of a famed serial killer. Told through six chapters, although nonlinear, this shocking film is here is f*ck you up. Opening with a Texas Chainsaw-inspired crawl, the audience Read More →
GHOSTS OF THE VOID Wins Scariest Film at Popcorn Frights Filmmaker Jason Miller brings Popcorn Frights 2023 audiences GHOSTS OF THE VOID, the story of a newly homeless couple spending the night in their car, navigating paralyzing anxiety, relationship tension, and masked strangers. This character-driven heart-pounder carefully weaves real-world horrors into a narrative that keeps viewers off-kilter. It earns your Read More →
DISTRESS SIGNALS **World Premiere** Synopsis: When a fall down a steep rock face separates her from her friends, Caroline finds herself stranded. Now, alone and with a dislocated shoulder, she must make her way out of the woods — and contend with how she got there. Distress Signals is the second feature film from Terence Krey and Christine Nyland, the Read More →
PSYCHE Stephon Stewart brings his sci-fi horror mashup, PSYCHE, to Popcorn Frights 2025. The film finds Mara awakening in a mysterious wasteland alongside an 80s computer, named Pi, persuading her to complete six levels of gameplay. Pi acts as both guide and companion. As Mara stumbles from one mysterious level to the next, the computer program fights with itself, sending Read More →
ALL TOGETHER NOW Maximus Jenkins delivers a twisted tale in the indie horror ALL TOGETHER NOW. A clever bait-and-switch, the film opens in a very meta way, with aspiring filmmaker Lincoln hitting it big following a festival screening. Real-world success gets complicated when the lines between his creation and trauma quickly blur. This is the epitome of great indie filmmaking. Read More →
THE THAW Filmmakers Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple‘s striking horror folktale has been killing it on the festival circuit, and rightly so. THE THAW tells the story of a family running low on food for the winter months, tasking their daughter to prepare a sleeping tea that would put them into a deep hibernation state. It does not go well. Read More →
PRESENCE Business partners Jennifer and Samantha are invited on a weeklong yachting voyage with a potential investor. Jennifer begins to have strange dreams, and it becomes clear that she may have brought something else with her. I’ve been sitting on my thoughts about this film for two days now. If I’m being completely honest, I think PRESENCE plays like a Read More →
Synopsis: When a childhood prank goes wrong, four strangers are forced to relive a cruel game at the hands of a masked psychopath. Torture porn at it’s finest, The Dare is genuinely gagworthy in its practical FX. Without reading the synopsis, the film’s full plot doesn’t reveal itself until halfway through. This allows you to become invested in the mystery Read More →
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