The Popcorn Checklist is doing the Lord’s work as they dedicate themselves to highlighting and amplifying indie movies which are nonetheless searching for distribution, even after profitable pageant runs. Based in 2024, the platform desires to assist these movies discover their wider viewers. Now, they’ve launched their first genre-specific record and have introduced the six movies included on the inaugural record.
However how did they determine which titles to incorporate? They reached out to 22 style movie programmers throughout the U.S. and obtained 10 suggestions. Of these 10 movies, six opted into the record. (As a be aware about their course of, the Popcorn Checklist reaches out to each movie to substantiate eligibility, contact info, and permission for inclusion.) Festivals that participated embrace Anomaly, Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, Fantasia, Incredible Fest, FilmQuest, Nightmares, Popcorn Frights, and Portland Horror.
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THE BELDHAM (dir. Angela Gulner)
Struggling single mother Harper strikes in together with her personal mom to renovate a fading suburban farmhouse. The 2 are joined by her mom’s new boyfriend and a mysterious live-in dwelling aide, each who declare to be devoted to Harper’s postpartum care.
“A movie you actually can’t guess the ending of till it occurs, this intelligent horror movie is simply as a lot concerning the thriller as it’s concerning the horror that in the end proves true horror is nearer to dwelling than we frequently admit. Robust performances, assured path, and a stable story make for a movie price trying out. One of many higher style options of 2024, indie or studio.” – Jonathan Martin, Founder/Director, FilmQuest
ELECTROPHILIA (LOS IMPACTADOS) (dir. Lucía Puenzo)
Ada is struck by lightning, leading to a bodily and psychological reconfiguration. As she joins a bunch of lightning strike survivors, she finds out that the street to electrophilia will probably be a journey of no return…
“A subversive and delightful work of private style storytelling that’s recent, radical, and provocative with unusual energy, fronted by a transfixing efficiency by Mariana Di Girolamo. See it in a cinema if in any respect attainable.” – Mitch Davis, Co-Director/Director of Worldwide Programming, Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition
OLD WOUNDS (dir. Steven Hugh Nelson)
An aspiring filmmaker paperwork a street journey together with his girlfriend to fulfill her household. As he learns extra about her previous, they uncover he’s not the one one filming them.
“Outdated Wounds is a really artistic addition to the discovered footage sub-genre and provides a whole lot of coronary heart.” – Marc Ferman, Co-Founder/Co-Director, Popcorn Frights Movie Competition
SOUND OF LOVE (dir. Ayuta Yoshikawa)
Cleansing employee Moriya seeks solace from his remoted existence by listening to the ASMR streams of a mysterious on-line creator who goes by the identify Akiha. Moriya’s fixation on Akiha’s movies threatens to destroy each his private {and professional} lives, however he can’t cease himself from pursuing a deeper connection. He reaches out to Akiha and the 2 unexpectedly develop a relationship, first fully on-line and shortly IRL. However Moriya’s obsession solely grows as their unusual bond quickly sends them down a harmful path that simply could devour them each.
“This wild, unusual, and transfixing movie took our programming workforce by full shock when it got here via our submissions, and it was one we couldn’t cease speaking about. The response from our first programmer to view it says all of it: “This can be a unusual chicken of a movie, however additionally it is typically lovely, and may very well be the break-the-brain number of the fest.” – Adam Lubitow, Programming Director/Co-founder, Anomaly Movie Competition
STRANGE KINDNESS (dir. Joseph Mault)
Rose’s wayward brother returns dwelling on the identical morning their quiet neighborhood is roiled by a violent crime. Throughout city, their ailing aunt Chris lives in self-imposed isolation with no real interest in receiving telephone calls or mail. As a house-to-house manhunt is underway, Chris finds a bloodied gunman hiding in her lounge. She calmly assures him, “I’m not going to scream.”
“Unusual Kindness is a movie about isolation, the surprising acts of violence which have come to punctuate our American dream, and what empathy may seem like at its additional limits. Whereas the movie’s content material is political, its therapy of themes is much extra mythological in nature. (We expect this workforce is one to keep watch over.) – Nicole Controversy, Director of Programming, Boston Underground Movie Competition
WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? (dir. Danny Villaneuva, Jr.)
After uncovering disturbing revelations from her early childhood involving her late grandmother, Dorothy Bell, Ozzie Grey units out to video doc her investigation into these previous occasions. Determined for solutions, she makes an attempt to speak with Dorothy’s spirit however unwittingly awakens one thing malevolent.
“Anchored by an outstanding lead efficiency and that includes some actually horrific and indelible imagery, the movie does a terrific job balancing scares with emotional resonance.” – Lisa Dreyer, Competition Director, Incredible Fest
Extra movie suggestions (optioned out of the official record):
- The Advanced Varieties, Directed by Fabio D’Orta, Italy, 2024 (Rec. Gwen Callahan, Portland Horror Movie Competition)
- Dooba Dooba, Directed by Ehrland Hollingsworth, USA, 2024 (Rec. by Jason Tostevin, Nightmares Movie Competition)
- The Final Sacrifice, Directed by Rupert Russell, UK, 2024 (Rec. The Programming Staff, Brooklyn Horror Movie Competition)
For extra details about the movies included on the record, go right here.
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