With a tag line like, "Buy a bag, go home in a box," you can't go wrong...then again, there's a lot of movies with great tag lines which suck. This one also sucks, although I mean that in a good way. POPCORN is a really silly, really entertaining horror movie which isn't very scary, but is so preposterous that you'll be guaranteed a good time.

The plot is about a group of film students. When they realize they have a major lack of funding for their department, they put together a fundraiser. Under the leadership of their professor (Tony Roberts, an actor who has obviously fallen since his roles in films such as ANNIE HALL), they throw a giant event. To earn the dough, they hire an old movie theater and show cheesy black and white 50s horror films.

But guess what? The theater happens to be haunted! (surprise surprise). Before long we find ourselves in the midst of another PHANTOM OF THE OPERA knock-off. It's probably for the best that this fundraiser was doomed, because they spend so much money setting up the even that I doubt it would have made any profit.

The fun isn't even from the cheesy killings or the plot turns, but from the random little details: the small roles of Tony Roberts and the dude who played Mr. Hand in FAST TIMES IN RIDGEMONT HIGH, the random costumes people wear to this fundraiser, and the cheap Casio-made music score. Best of all, there is a reggae band which manages to play a couple songs in the midst of a power-outtage (how their amps got electricity is another matter).