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Popcorn is a slasher movie William Castle would have loved. It’s directed by Mark Herrier and stars Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, and Dee Wallace-Stone. Film students running a b-movie film festival showing three not-so-classic fake movies of old (Mosquito!, Attack of the Amazing Electrified Man, and The Stench), each with its own built-in audience participation gimmick, fall victim to a theatrical maniac by means that tie in with the film’s gimmick.
SPOILER! I mean, how many movies can boast they feature not one, but two – TWO – deaths by mosquito prop impalement?
Yeah, I heart this movie so much.
“Scary, Scary Movies” performed by Ossie D and Stevie G adorns the end credits with its mix of movie soundbites and reminders as to why you and I go to the movies to see these scary, scary movies on the silver screen.
Forget the silver screen; at this point I’d happily settle for a decent print of this movie on DVD or Blu-ray.