Synopsis
While holding a horror film festival, a group of film students find themselves stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader.
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Cast
- Jill SchoelenMaggie
- Tom VillardToby
- Dee WallaceSuzanne
- Derek RydallMark
- Kelly Jo MinterCheryl
- Malcolm DanareBud
- Elliott HurstLeon
- Ivette SolerJoannie
- Freddie SimpsonTina
- Karen LorreJoy
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
Popcorn is such fun for lovers of schlock (intended or otherwise) that it hardly matters where it is set. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Though it isn’t even trying to scare you, this is a very nifty black-comic horror movie, one of the rare entries in the genre with some genuine wit and affection. - 70
The New York Times
A horror film that is less mindless than most in that it is both funny and gross. - 63
Boston Globe
Popcorn is a "Phantom of the Shlopera" - the kind of corny B-movie midnight campers can sink their plastic fangs into. [01 Feb 1991, p.21] - 50
Washington Post
Beware of horror films that begin with a bad dream -- they usually go on that way as well. Case in point: Popcorn, which has several good ideas that, unfortunately, go unrealized. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
POPCORN seems to be a case of too many ideas; the basic story could probably have made a very effective short. The acting in the film varies greatly, and some mediocre dubbing adds to the amateur feel. - 33
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Popcorn is not scary enough to work as horror, not funny enough to work as comedy, not cute enough to work as camp, not skilled enough to work as a tribute to the bad movies of the '50s, and so indifferently acted by the cast (including Tony Roberts, Dee Wallace Stone and Ray Walston) that it just seems a waste of everyone's time. [01 Feb 1991] - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
The problem with Popcorn is that it's just as ridiculous as the horror movies it satirizes. [02 Feb 1991, p.C3]
