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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★ 2

  A fun semi slasher that is simultaneously a love letter to the communal experience that is watching movies at the theatre, as well as a tribute to William Castle-like movies/ gimmicks. There are some very nice elements to this, like the movie cult, the protagonist with a forgotten past and the face swapping killer. Popcorn isn't executed as well as it could have been and it gets a bit cheesy at times, but it's still a blast.

  So much fun watching this with Michelle.

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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★★½ 4

  I hadn’t seen this since back in the day when Jill Schoelen and Kelly Jo Minter were both household horror names, at least in my house! In other words, it’s been more than a minute, but hey it all holds up really well! Something about a horror movie in a theater always seems to work well for me and this one has that and tons of early 90’s goofiness on top of it so it’s a winner!

  More of a comedy in many parts, but it still delivers on the horror goods and that ending is pretty memorable, mostly because it was a bit traumatic to kid me. The cast is great with Dee Wallace playing Jill’s mom and Tony…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★★ 4

  Popcorn is a total blast. The most bombastic Halloween party in a movie theatre known to man. One of the most uniquely original horror films of the 90s. I hadn't seen it in years and I was totally loving it. Quirky characters, inventive kills, psychedelic dream sequences, 90s actors galore and one of my favourite horror movie settings. Outside of Demons and Anguish this may be the best horror film set in a theatre.

  A cult member known as the Possessor shows his audience his trippy arthouse film before murdering his family on stage. He then burns down a movie theatre killing several people in the process. Years later a bunch of dorks decide to hold an all night horror…

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  Review by nathaxnne <3 [hiatus] ★★★★ 4

  Popcorn revolves around the transition from broken matter to broken minds, from atoms to acid, from Castle to Corman as the axis about which the 1960's horror film continuums, from the exterior without-threat to the interior within-threat. That this can take place in a delightful old theatre during a Schlock Horror Fest with what has got to be the most involved and into-it audience to ever such an event makes it even more fun. There is a thesis at work, one with which I am not sure that I agree, that a restoration toward broad unificatory horror which can get us out of our heads and into laughing and jeering and freaking out with our friends and neighbors might just…

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  Review by sydney ★★

  pretty sure that obnoxious college student who yells that police academy 5 has better character development than ingmar bergman follows me on twitter

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  Review by Dave Taylor ★★★★

  Popcorn is exactly the type of gleeful horror movie I love. You’ve got a horror nerd’s dream film festival as the setting. A killer who is a master of disguise and a great use of practical effects to show off their talents. Plus, a surprisingly amount of familiar faces with a cast previously showing up in Summer School, The Howling, and One Crazy Summer. Highly recommend!

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  Review by BeardofTsu ★★★★ 2

  And you thought Iron Maiden was a heavy metal band!

  
  A Mosquito, The Attack of the Amazing Electrified Man, and The Stench being shown in a movie marathon looks like a good time to me! Hard to believe something like this actually got a theatre release - even if it did bomb. Popcorn is just lots of cheesy fun, not everything works but what does is extremely effective.

  A group of film students decide to put on a mini "horrorcon" to raise money to fix up a rundown theatre. Showing three 50's movies complete with promotional gimmicks like Shock-o-Scope, 3D, and Aroma-rama. After finding a mysterious film reel called 'Possessor' a killer in the shadows uses the movie's many gimmicks…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★½ 7

  Talking about a film that ups its ranking and my appreciation for it towards the very end, til then this was a nice and enjoyable horror slasher film that I wouldn’t be surprised it inspired the likes of SCREAM with its very Meta approach and discussion on B level filmmaking, this one taking the front and center of the entire picture as a group of film students try to bring back the glory of B movies and horror to a group and era apparently has developed a taste for something much “sophisticated” or no interest at all.

  The acting in this for the most part is as great as you would expect from a slasher film in the 90s that…

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  Review by Dan Abel ★★★

  The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Joe Bob's Haunted Halloween Hangout 2022 - Film 2

  A bunch of film nerds from the high school film class are tired of being shafted and moved from space to space. To establish themselves and raise money for the class they decide they have to make a splash, so they settle on an all night horror-thon at the old Dreamland theater where they can sell tickets and present gimmick scares during the films. Here they find a short film in a case marked 'do not open' named Possessor by a director who killed his entire family in the last scene and burned the theater down killing most of the movie goers on…

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  Review by 𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙖 ᵕ̈ ★★★★½ 2

  Logging this before I go to sleep because I just know that I’m gonna wake up thinking this was a weird dream

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  Review by Biscoito18 ★★★

  Part of HOOPT🚨BER 7.0: “Stay Inside (the Salt Circle)!” challenge.
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  The old school poster with a funny tagline ("Buy a bag, go home in a box") makes it clear that this is a film made for fans of horror movies, especially classical B-horror made with love for the genre and for the entire grindhouse subculture.
  And in this respect, "Popcorn" does a good job. It's fun to watch the horrorthon filled with gimmicks à la William Castle in a beautiful and crowded vintage theater.

  The plot is as corny as those of the old B-films being presented, but unlike their audience, we aren't surrounded by tricks that make the experience remarkable.
  The characters are clichés, the development is…

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  Review by Sam G ★★★★ 12

  #SLASHERSATURDAY 

  Man was this a surprise.

  This was pretty fucking awesome. I love the set up and I would so be there for this horror movie marathon/extravaganza! Sucks it had to be tarnished but we got a slasher to get too here!! So aside from a cool idea and setting, the characters weren’t too bad in the sense they’re just movie lovers and I can relate heavy to that. Solid crowd too and an event like this would be awesome with some of those legendary B movie horrors. The killer side to things was wildly fun as well and had a solid reveal as that craziness ensues. Could of used more carnage but that’s just me and some of these kills were pretty cool. Awesome pick and a slashtastic time all around. 7.5/10🍿

  
  Oh and I almost forgot, the music slaaaays in this Slasher🙌🏻