Why is this movie is awesome? Well, first, the kills are freaking epic!!! A guy gets killed with a giant mechanical mosquito, someone gets shocked to death, and another is stink bombed to his demise. Is Maggie Crazy? Or is Lanyard just back to finish his snuff film? Soon after, the film class is being killed off one by one. While getting the theater ready, the class comes across a snuff type film in which they discover a cult film leader, Lanyard Gates, who is kind of like a Charles Manson wannabe, just happens to be the man in Maggie’s dreams and she thinks he’s after her. They come up with this amazing idea to host an all-night horror marathon at a rundown movie theater, filled with gimmicks to get people in the door. She just so happens to be a film student (this is where the second plot kicks in), Her film class is a newly developed department and needs funding. What’s actually so cool about this movie it’s a plot within a plot! The first plot centers on a girl named Maggie (Jill Schoelen), who keeps having spooky dreams about a man, which she plans to make into a film. I, myself cannot wait to see the cover art! Although no release date has been confirmed yet, according to, a Blu-ray release is planned to be released from Synapse Films. They released this on DVD in 2001 then discontinued it in 2010. You want to talk about movies lacking originality, well critics this one does not. has a rating of 5.7 and Rotten Tomatoes has it as 29% rotten. It’s considered to be a box office flop, however, when it hit rental shelves the cover art for the VHS just popped off the shelf! Making it a quick word of mouth movie to rent. February 1st, 1991, directed by Mark Herrier, Popcorn was released into small theaters.
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