"It takes a certain kind of insanity to embrace Florida insanity, and our audiences are not silent."
At this year’s Popcorn Frights Film Festival, John Carpenter’s classic “The Fog” will play as artificial “fog” pumps into the theater. Another movie, the Christmas-themed slasher “Silent Night, Deadly Night” will screen with “snow” streaming from the rafters.
And that’s just inside the theater.
Outside, the festival will show the 1980s splatterfest “Nightmare Beach,” about an insatiable killer preying on Spring Breakers, at night on Fort Lauderdale beach, a frisbee toss from its filming location.
At a time when deep state cuts have slashed arts funding, horror movies have proven to be a frighteningly resilient business in South Florida — and the proof is in Popcorn Frights, a defiantly indie horror bash that has inexplicably become Broward County’s biggest film festival.
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