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‘Popcorn’ Screening at Hollywood’s Beyond Fest!
Beyond Fest is proud to partner with Secret Sixteen and Jumpcut Cafe to share with the film freaks of Los Angeles a rare 35mm screening of the 1991 horror cult classic Popcorn!
An outrageous love letter to B-Movies, Horror fans, and Film Festivals, we thought there was no better way to close out Beyond Fest than with a movie that basically mirrors the experience of being at Beyond Fest itself! Albeit, with slightly more murder than your average night at the Egyptian.
The fledgling film department of the University of California, Berkeley has problems in gaining recognition, and film professor Mr. Davis has an idea how to overcome them… He and his students organize an all-night horror film festival to be held at Dreamland, an abandoned movie theater. Dr. Mnesyne, owner of film memorabilia, provides them with appropriate gimmicks for the films chosen for the festival. As the festival begins, a homicidal maniac stalks the theater blurring the lines between film and terrifying reality.
Secret Sixteen, headed by filmmaker and film collector Mike Williamson, presents cult films once a month at Jumpcut Cafe in Studio City on 16mm film for free. If you like Popcorn, you’ll love what’s being shown on glorious celluloid every month at Los Angeles’ best micro-cinema. Find Secret Sixteen and Jumpcut Cafe on Facebook and Twitter and join in the fun. Beyond Fest may have come to a close, but the cinema madness continues year round at Secret Sixteen and Jumpcut Cafe!
Now let’s grab a Schlitz, and enjoy the Reggae music filled horror show freak out that is Popcorn!
Final Destination Bloodlines filmmakers Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein return to their mutant roots with Freaks Part II, their follow-up to 2018’s Freaks. The first look has arrived ahead of the film’s world premiere.
Freaks Part II is the official closing film of Fantasia, where it will make its world premiere.
In the sequel, “Several years after a traumatic escape, we meet Mary (Amanda Crew, Freaks) and her daughter Chloe (Lorelei Olivia Mote, Riddle of Fire) as they live on the road, hiding their powers and identities. They are hunted by the Abnormal Defense Force, paramilitary police that specialize in ruthlessly exterminating ‘freaks‘ like them. Mary is fueled by revenge, determined to find the ADF officer (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) who killed her first child.“
It’s not just the story that’s progressing with this sequel, but also the gore. Fantasia teases, “There’s also inventive gore – the most we’ve seen in a Canadian film in years – that punctuates the outstanding performances and serious subject matter.”
Mote takes over for Lexy Kolker, who played Chloe in the 2018 film that saw the young protagonist with growing powers confined to her home by an overprotective and paranoid father (Emile Hirsch).
Rafael Motamayor wrote in his review, “Freaks feels like an even more grounded, small-scale version of the X-Men, a sci-fi film filled with surprises, a message about parenthood and wanting to keep your child safe and isolated from the world, and a future star in Lexy Kolker.”
Lipovsky & Stein’s have a packed slate ahead, co-writing Gremlins 3 with Chris Columbus, directing the sci-fi survival film The Earthling for Columbia, directing the psychological horror film Long Lost for Amblin, and directing the sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount.
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