Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror

DATE: Sunday, August 15
TIME: 5:00PM
VENUE: Silverspot Cinema Coconut Creek

Popcorn Frights’ “Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror” sidebar is dedicated to renewing and reinvigorating the audience’s engagement with Miami’s local filmmakers and Florida’s homegrown talent. This platform is designed to be a springboard for new filmmakers from Florida and a space that helps forge a new direction for Miami’s genre scene by further cultivating and nurturing its growing film community.

American Cryptid
Directed by Erynn Dalton
USA | 5 minutes | 2021

Campfire stories, passed down for generations, may give you thrill… but you never know who (or what) is listening. World Premiere!

American Diablo
Directed by Juan Carlos Castaneda
USA | 10 minutes | 2021

A police checkpoint turned awry takes an undocumented, deaf woman on a downward spiral into the underworld hiding beneath Miami. World Premiere!

deMonica
Directed by Miguel Angel Ferrer
USA | 22 minutes | 2021

A former gang member must recruit a Jesuit priest in order to help her save her younger sister, not only from the ruthless prostitution ring she fell into, but from the demon that’s possessing her body. Southeast US Premiere!

It Comes from Outside
Directed by Jack Kierski
USA | 10 minutes | 2021

After she sees a mysterious figure staring at her from the window, a curious but skeptical woman goes outside in her back patio area to find who it is. Is it human or something supernatural? World Premiere!

Tech Savvy
Directed by Scott Vasey
USA | 8 minutes | 2020

A Mom discovers her Photoshop program can make changes that become permanent in real life. After some friendly fun, she destroys a photo of her Ex’s prized car, inadvertently creating a disaster in need of an “undo” button. South Florida Premiere!

Too Far
Directed by Juan Alonso
USA | 21 minutes | 2020

A jokester tries to pull a prank on his girlfriend with the help of his two friends, but when a masked figure sabotages the prank, they quickly learn that someone has been the punch line of their jokes for way too long and now is taking matters into their own hands. South Florida Premiere!

What Can Be Broken Should Be Broken
Directed by Rostislav Vaynshtok
USA | 20 minutes | 2021

A mob hit gone awry embroils two mobsters in a series of unfortunate events too calculated to be a coincidence, leading ultimately to ruin and an act of savage revenge. World Premiere!