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Popcorn (1991)

Popcorn poster
Directed by
Mark Herrier, Alan Ormsby
Genre
horror film, comedy horror, slasher film, monster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 159 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

College students throwing a horror film festival in an old movie theater get picked off one by one by a killer who is hiding among them.

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What happens

Popcorn is a 1991 American slasher film directed by Mark Herrier and written by Alan Ormsby. It stars Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Tony Roberts, Dee Wallace, and Derek Rydall. The plot follows a group of college students holding a film festival, where they are then stalked and murdered by a deranged killer inside a movie theater. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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