DATE: Saturday, August 16
TIME: 12:00pm
VENUE: Cinema Paradiso Hollywood
Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror
Homegrown: 100% Pure Fresh Squeezed Florida Horror
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.
Alpaca
Directed by Sylvia Caminer
USA | 15 minutes | 2025
Directed by Sylvia Caminer
USA | 15 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. A wacky horror-comedy bursting with sass and spit.
Brick Boy
Directed by Scott Vasey
USA | 10 minutes | 2025
Directed by Scott Vasey
USA | 10 minutes | 2025
FLORIDA PREMIERE. A bullied teen conjures a building block golem to exact vengeance on her oppressors.
Dark Water Rising
Directed by Jessica Bachman
USA | 12 minutes | 2025
Directed by Jessica Bachman
USA | 12 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. At the Insmouth Center for Marine Science, a determined researcher uncovers a glowing specimen tied to the doomed S.S. Fortuna, but her pursuit of a strange, regenerative substance soon spirals into a chilling descent where scientific curiosity gives way to cosmic horror.
It Loves Me So
Directed by Colin Dean Treneff
USA | 11 minutes | 2024
Directed by Colin Dean Treneff
USA | 11 minutes | 2024
FLORIDA PREMIERE. After a painful breakup, a woman’s heartbreak unwittingly attracts a love-deprived demonic entity determined to claim her soul for a terrifyingly eternal romance.
Mimic
Directed by Thomas Edward Hindy
USA | 6 minutes | 2024
Directed by Thomas Edward Hindy
USA | 6 minutes | 2024
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Returning home to an eerily empty house, a mother searches for her missing family and comes face-to-face with the sinister force behind their disappearance.
Neuropsychosis
Directed by Michael Wright
USA | 15 minutes | 2025
Directed by Michael Wright
USA | 15 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. Over the course of one night, four drug dealers sample a mysterious new substance from an unknown source—plunging each of them into a uniquely terrifying and mind-bending trip.
Phantom Pain
Directed by Kansas McWhirter
USA | 5 minutes | 2025
Directed by Kansas McWhirter
USA | 5 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. When a skilled ghost extraction doctor becomes the target of a vengeful spirit, she must risk everything on a volatile elixir before time—and her sanity—runs out.
Shift
Directed by Lucca Vieira
USA | 12 minutes | 2025
Directed by Lucca Vieira
USA | 12 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. A self-conscious teenage girl desperate for perfection begins injecting a mysterious cosmetic drug—only to watch her body undergo a horrifying and monstrous transformation.
Shore Gore
Directed by Valentino Dors
USA | 4 minutes | 2024
Directed by Valentino Dors
USA | 4 minutes | 2024
FLORIDA PREMIERE. After a night of partying, a couple retreats to a secluded beach for a moonlit swim, but when eerie tales of the ocean’s depths turn real with a sudden, mysterious bite, their romantic escape spirals into a deadly encounter with something far more sinister.
Swallows
Directed by Queenie Zhang
USA | 11 minutes | 2025
Directed by Queenie Zhang
USA | 11 minutes | 2025
US PREMIERE. When a journalist is assigned to profile a businessman, she uncovers that he has a story related to her haunted past.
That Ass
Directed by Andrew Kiaroscuro
USA | 14 minutes | 2025
Directed by Andrew Kiaroscuro
USA | 14 minutes | 2025
WORLD PREMIERE. An epic horror exploring the dark, unholy power of glutes.
Want
Directed by Zalman Zuckerbraun
USA | 6 minutes | 2024
Directed by Zalman Zuckerbraun
USA | 6 minutes | 2024
FLORIDA PREMIERE. Immortality awaits, but when the Sorcerer’s devoted servant refuses to join him in eternal life, a dark and twisted battle of wills unfolds—one the Sorcerer is determined to win.
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July 29, 2025
