Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Downtown, Los Angeles
During the opening minutes of POPCORN, someone says, "There is more social relevance and character development in POLICE ACADEMY 5 than in all of Ingmar Bergman's cinematic smorgasbords!" If that doesn't convince you that this movie is the best thing ever, please continue reading. POPCORN is an unstoppable fun machine, one of the last unironic American horror movies to be released before SCREAM, aka the end of the world as we know it. A group of college students throw a William Castle-inspired fundraising horror-thon at an old theater. But wait! While the audience watches MOSQUITO, THE AMAZING ELECTRIFIED MAN, and THE STENCH on the big screen, a hippie madman named Lanyard Gates bumps off the students in creative ways. Like impalement via giant mosquito prop. But why is Gates terrorizing everyone's favorite 1980s horror mom, Dee Wallace? And why is Gates's own horror movie, THE POSSESSOR, showing up in the dreams of everyone's favorite 1980s Winona Ryder doppelgänger, Jill Schoelen? You're gonna love finding out.