A University film class isn't receiving proper funding so they decide to put on a horror film festival to raise some money. While setting up, they discover a reel featuring 'artsy', macabre footage of a film-maker who, years ago, went on to kill his family live on stage after the screening of that particular film. So, as the festival is underway, a killer is lurking around behind the scenes - making molds of peoples faces and wearing them as masks as he murders them...
All "Popcorn" did was remind me that horror died out with the 80s and there was that depressing period of the early 90s where haphazard attempts to recapture the profitable slasher 'trend' ended up making for some truly unmemorable shit. "Popcorn" has no gore (aside from TWO people being impaled by the SAME giant suspended mosquito prop...What "imagination"...), no sex/nudity, banal comedic tones, and some painfully forced - yet predictable - 'connection' between the over-explaining killer and the main girl which eats up a lot of the film's run-time. Also, too much of the movie is spent showing scenes of the movies-within-the-movie, which just goes to show that the main premise of "Popcorn" couldn't solely sustain an average 90-minute run and needed to be heavily padded with pointless, unfunny horror movie satire. I think this is why genre fans like this movie - because of the references - but I found it to be a very cliched, watered down borefest. It's a prime example of a tired 90s slasher abortion...
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