Popcorn (1991 film)

Popcorn is a 1991 American comedy horror film directed by Mark Herrier and written by Alan Ormsby.

The fledgling new film department at the university has had trouble gaining recognition, so classmate Toby DAmato Tom Villard has an idea to put on an allnight Horrorthon to raise funds for the department to have a permanent editing space. They set up shop in the defunct Dreamland theater, an old live theater and cinema that is to be razed in three weeks. Professor Davis Tony Roberts is concerned about the time constraints, but Toby has enlisted the help of Dr. Mnesyne Ray Walston, an owner of a film memorabilia shop who has the appropriate gimmicks for the films chosen for the festival. There are three main films within a film. Mosquito is a 3D film, The Attack of the Amazing Electrified Man was released with an accompanying ShockoScope gimmick electrical buzzers in seats, and The Stench is a Japanese film released in Odorama.As they go through Dr. Mnesynes trunks of equipment, they find a short cult film called Possessor, that greatly resembles Maggies dreams. Davis informs them that back in the 1970s the films creator, Lanyard Gates, went on to kill his own family on stage in the live final scene of the film before setting the theater on fire, trapping the audience inside. Maggie soon becomes obsessed with the film and trying to figure out why she has been dreaming about it. When she asks her mother if she has heard of Gates or Possessor, Suzanne becomes uncomfortable she urges Maggie to quit the festival and wants them to go away together. After Maggie goes to bed, Suzanne receives another prank call from someone she believes to be Gates. He tells her to meet him at Dreamland so they can talk and advises her to bring a gun. ........

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