DATE: Sunday, August 16
TIME: 1:00pm
VENUE: Classic Gateway Theater
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.
Bodies of Water
Directed by Biagio Gulino
USA | 23 minutes | 2026
Directed by Biagio Gulino
USA | 23 minutes | 2026
EAST COAST PREMIERE. After a devastating injury derails his baseball career, a former star player returns to his family’s empty Florida home, seeking recovery but instead confronting his deepest fears—both physical and supernatural—when he encounters a mysterious woman whose secrets blur the line between desire and danger.
Cheap Meat
Directed by JP Bradham
USA | 6 minutes | 2026
Directed by JP Bradham
USA | 6 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. Rex finds out the hard way how it feels to be treated like a piece of meat.
Final Frames
Directed by Michael D. Elliott
USA | 5 minutes | 2026
Directed by Michael D. Elliott
USA | 5 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. When a mysterious VHS tape appears on her doorstep, Cathy Banks descends into a haunting that intertwines her reality with a distorted vision of her future.
Horror Insurance
Directed by Christopher Pinto
USA | 15 minutes | 2026
Directed by Christopher Pinto
USA | 15 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. A salesperson tries to convince a homeowner to buy insurance against unexpected horrors. Since she’s got a quota, she’ll do whatever it takes to make the sale.
Hot Mess
Directed by Yessica Lepe
USA | 10 minutes | 2026
Directed by Yessica Lepe
USA | 10 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. During a Halloween party a young man finds out the difference between hook-up culture and predatory behavior when his “hot mess” date turns out to not be what she seems.
Marry Rich and Often
Directed by Jessica Bachman
USA | 5 minutes | 2026
Directed by Jessica Bachman
USA | 5 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. Newlyweds move into a grand, lavish house where a spectral bride in white haunts the halls and casts a dark shadow over the marriage.
Pumpkin
Directed by Mack Reyes
USA | 6 minutes | 2026
Directed by Mack Reyes
USA | 6 minutes | 2026
WORLD PREMIERE. A young woman is obsessed with finding her one true love. She dates a man in hopes of finding her happily ever after.
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July 28, 2026
