Popcorn Frights Announces Their 2023 Festival Winners
After careful deliberation, the jury of this year’s edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival has proclaimed the winners of this year’s festival! And it was no easy task, with the festival showing a program of 51 features and 68 shorts.
This year, the jury panel elected to honor Brandon Christensen’s diabolical tale The Puppetman with the Jury Prize for Best Feature Film. This marks Brandon Christensen’s second win of the festival’s Jury Prize, having previously won in 2021 for the Shudder original Superhost. In their award announcement, the jury said: “We were captivated by The Puppetman’s exceptional portrayal of the essence of horror. The film’s outstanding ensemble cast, combined with masterful sequencing of suspenseful scenes, succeeded in crafting an atmosphere filled with palpable tension that resonated deeply with us.”
This year’s Scariest Feature Film Prize was given to Jason Miller’s chilling saga Ghosts Of The Void. In its effort to shine a brighter spotlight on first-time filmmakers, Popcorn Frights created its New Nightmare Prize celebrating filmmakers making their feature film debuts. This year’s recipient is Devanny Pinn’s Florida-based true-crime thriller The Black Mass.
Claiming the title of Popcorn Frights’ Audience Award for Best Feature Film was Erynn Dalton’s Big Easy Queens, a made-in-Florida LGBTQ glam horror musical.
The full list of the festival’s award winners can be found below:
Jury Prize for Best Feature Film: THE PUPPETMAN, dir. Brandon Christensen
Jury Prize for Best Short Film: GET AWAY, dir. Michael Gabriele
Scariest Feature Film Prize: GHOSTS OF THE VOID, dir. Jason Miller
Scariest Short Film Prize: UNKNOWN, dir. Jay Henric
New Nightmare Prize for Best Debut Film: THE BLACK MASS, dir. Devanny Pinn
Best Florida Short Film: POV, dir. Brian K. Rosenthal
Audience Award for Feature Film: BIG EASY QUEENS, dir. Erynn Dalton
Audience Award for Short Film: RED GLOVES, dir. Santiago Saba Salem
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