You can’t beat going to the movies for free. This year to celebrate their tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival will make a cheapskate movie lover’s dream come true by offering almost their entire in-theater experience free.
This year’s celebration of horror movies will take place from August 8-18 at the Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale and Paradigm Cinema’s Gateway Theater.
The festival will feature 83 short films. 11 of which will make their world premiere at Popcorn Frights Film Festival. Among the shorts is their “Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror” program that is dedicated to Florida’s local filmmakers and homegrown talent.
For those with longer attention spans there will also be plenty of feature length films including re-screenings of beloved old school screamfests like Candyman. Those that are scared to fall asleep can enjoy Up All Night with Freddy, an overnight marathon of all the Nightmare on Elm Street flicks featuring the scariest horror icon of them all Freddy Krueger.
Along with the old movies, there is also plenty of new.
Opening night has a double-bill. It starts with the world premiere of Epic Pictures’ Beezel. Described as “an unforgiving and utterly frightening morality tale about a cursed home and the sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors — an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the souls of the living”. Part two of the double feature showcases the Florida premiere of the serial killer thriller Strange Darling.
According to their press release, “Additional films receiving world premieres at the festival are the sci-fi thriller The Bunker starring Tony Todd, Tobin Bell, and Chelsea Edmundson. The wild descent into a psychedelic Lovecraft nightmare Voidcaller. The darkly twisted Drive Back that puts a fresh spin on slasher conventions. The demonically frightening Birthrite about a mother’s ultimate sacrifice. And the mystery riddled Lizzie Lazarus, which follows two strangers carrying a corpse through the woods looking for a mythical zone.”
For more information and schedules visit the festival website at popcornfrights.com.
