Popcorn Frights Announces Second Wave Of Films For 2023 Festival
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Today Popcorn Frights has revealed the second wave of its stacked 2023 line-up, featuring cutting-edge new horrors and iconic retrospectives. So mark your calendars for August 10-20, when Popcorn Frights’ ninth edition unleashes cinematic mayhem both in person and online!
Nightbreed star Anne Bobby will make an appearance at Popcorn Frights for a special presentation of Clive Barker’s “Director’s Cut” as well as the world premiere of her new short film Kindling.
The festival will also host retrospective screenings for Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, and more!
Fans can watch more than 20 films on Popcorn Frights’ online virtual component featuring more than 20 films, including Subject, Wintertide, Invoking Yell, and Agatha.
A third wave of Popcorn Frights 2023 titles and special events will be announced in the coming weeks.
IN-THEATER RETRO LINEUP
The Birds
60th Anniversary Presentation
United States | 1963 | 120 Min. | Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Nightbreed: Director’s Cut
Special Presentation
United States | 1990 | 120 Min. | Dir. Clive Barker
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Special 50th Anniversary Presentation
United States | 1974 | 83 Min. | Dir. Tobe Hooper
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
VIRTUAL FEATURE FILM LINEUP
A Wandering Path
Florida Premiere
United States | 2023 | 98 Min. | Dir. Michael Dimmitt
The story of underground label Gilead Media and its renown for putting out black metal, doom, and noise rock releases of well-known bands.
Agatha
Florida Premiere
United States | 2022 | 60 Min. | Dirs. Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Roland Becerra
Hoping to find a cure to his sickness, “The Professor” follows Agatha on a strange and risky journey into a forgotten but not entirely deserted urban wasteland.
The Forest Hills
Florida Premiere
United States | 2023 | 80 Min. | Dir. Scott Goldberg
A man is tormented by nightmarish visions after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill woods.
Invoking Yell
Florida Premiere
Chile | 2023 | 84 Min. | Dir. Patricio Valladares
Set in the 1990s in the south of Chile, a trio of metalhead twenty-something girls ventures into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band, Invoking Yell, while also documenting the eerie and unsettling process of recording electronic voice phenomena in the woods for the final track.
Subject
Florida Premiere
Australia | 2022 | 77 Min. | Dir. Tristan Barr
On his way to prison, a man gets intercepted by a secretive government agency who task him to monitor a secret experiment in exchange for commuting his sentence.
Watchdog
Florida Premiere
United States | 2023 | 93 Min. | Dir. L.C. Holt
After narrowly surviving a violent mugging, a man invites a drifter who saved him back to the isolated home where he and his girlfriend resides, not realizing that he’s opened the door to a night of terror and bloody revenge.
Wintertide
Florida Premiere
Canada | 2023 | 97 Min. | Dir. John Barnard
A volunteer watchperson of an isolated northern city battles a plague of depression that transforms the few remaining residents into empty, zombie-like automatons.
Access to the in-theater program will be available through individual tickets or an all-access badge. Separate virtual passes are also available and will provide access to every film streaming in the festival’s virtual program. To order an In-Theater All-Access Badge, click here. To order a Virtual All-Access Pass, click here.
Submissions to the ninth annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival are still open via Film Freeway with the final deadline set for July 19.
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