The eleventh annual Popcorn Frights Film Festival is gearing up to unleash an 11-day horror celebration next month, and that includes closing out with a bang. The fest will host the U.S. premiere of Max Minghella’s Shell as its closing night film. Popcorn Frights will run from August 7-17, in person and virtually. Elisabeth Moss […]
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Shell’s screening at Popcorn Frights marks the first U.S. screening since its TIFF premiere. I wrote in my review that “Shell centers around an aging actor who embarks on a risky beauty regimen in a desperate bid to retain relevancy, Minghella opts to use it as a vehicle to craft an escapist love letter to ’90s cinema.”
Minghella made his feature directorial debut with 2018’s Teen Spirit, but horror fans will recognize the actor/filmmaker for his roles in Spiral: From the Book of Saw and Alexandre Aja’s Horns.
Individual tickets and All-Access Badges for Popcorn Frights’ in-theater experience—hosted at Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale and Cinema Paradiso Hollywood—are now available. Virtual All-Access Passes can also be purchased for streaming access to the full digital lineup. To order an In-Theater All-Access VIP Badge, click here; to order a Virtual All-Access Pass, click here.
Catch up on Popcorn Frights’ first and second waves of programming while we wait for a third wave of announcements still to come.
