Our A24orror series comes to a very spooky conclusion with Bring Her Back, a disturbing descent into psychological dread from directors Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou (Talk To Me).

Bring Her Back tells the story of a brother and sister that uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. With another great performance from Sally Hawkins and a number of horrifying sequences, it’ll have you thinking long after you’ve left the theater.

Brace yourself for a haunting you won’t forget.

Join Tesseract Cinema for their first event at the incredible Frida Cinema in Santa Ana as they present an anime double feature!

They’re playing two portraits of young artists – 2024 heartrending standout Look Back and 2019’s underrated slacker gem On-Gaku: Our Sound. They’ll be joined by some vendor friends and you can grab popcorn, candy, drinks & more at the Frida’s concession stand!

You can buy tickets to this event at: https://www.tixtree.com/e/look-back-on-gaku-our-sound-f98945b2b389

1:30 PM – Doors open

2:00 PM – Pre-Show, Trailers & Introduction

2:15 PM – Look Back (Oshiyama, 2024)

3:15 PM – Intermission

3:45 PM – On-Gaku: Our Sound (Iwaisawa, 2019)

Both films will be presented in their original Japanese language with English subtitles.

This program is a venue rental engagement. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff.

You can buy tickets to this event at: https://www.tixtree.com/e/look-back-on-gaku-our-sound-f98945b2b389

We’re back to our old tricks of playing a Friday The 13th movie every Friday The 13th. Except this time around, we realized we had already played them all over the past seven years! The solution to this problem is simple: how about we play all ten movies from the iconic Slasher franchise over a two night span? Welcome back to Camp Crystal Lake as we present The Frida Cinema’s Ten Film Friday The 13th Marathon! 

Join us for our second evening of kills and thrills, where we will be highlighting parts five-ten from the F13 series! Doors open at 4PM and the fun all begins at 5PM. We will run each film subsequently with a 15 minute break between each!

GA tickets to each night are $30, and a 2 night GA Pass is $50 and gives you access all ten movies!

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) – 5:00PM

After the divisive reception of Part V, Jason Lives brings the real Jason Voorhees back with a supernatural twist! The film opens with Tommy Jarvis (now played by Thom Mathews) attempting to cremate Jason’s corpse, but in true Frankenstein fashion, a lightning strike resurrects him instead.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) – 6:45PM

In The New Blood, Jason meets his match: a teenage girl named Tina Shepard who possesses telekinetic powers. After accidentally releasing Jason from his watery grave at the bottom of Crystal Lake, Tina must confront him in a final battle of supernatural strength vs. undead brute force.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) – 8:30pM

Marketed with the tantalizing promise of Jason slashing his way through the Big Apple, Part VIII spends most of its runtime on a cruise ship headed to Manhattan. When Jason finally arrives in NYC (in the third act), the setting provides some memorable scenes—Jason stalking Times Square, confronting punks, and causing general chaos.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) – 10:30PM

With New Line Cinema now in control, The Final Friday boldly attempts to break the mold. Jason is blown to pieces in the opening scene by a SWAT team, and his evil spirit possesses a series of bodies, jumping host to host. The film focuses on the mythology of Jason’s demonic nature and introduces the idea that only a Voorhees family member can kill him permanently.

Jason X (2001) – 12:15AM

By the early 2000s, the franchise embraced self-parody and sci-fi absurdity. Jason X sends Jason into space in the distant future after he’s cryogenically frozen and thawed aboard a spaceship. Once loose, he tears through the crew until he’s upgraded into a futuristic cyborg version: Uber Jason.

Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid.

Our Technicolor Summer series continues with the Cary Grant-Grace Kelly-Alfred Hitchcock classic To Catch A Thief! 

On the sun-drenched French Riviera, retired jewel thief John “The Cat” Robie (Cary Grant) finds his peaceful life interrupted when a string of copycat burglaries threatens to frame him for crimes he didn’t commit. Determined to clear his name, Robie sets out to catch the new thief in action—posing once more as a high-society gentleman among the Riviera’s wealthy elite.

There, he meets Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly), a cool and elegant American heiress who may be more intrigued by Robie’s rumored criminal past than his attempts at innocence. As romance and suspicion intertwine, To Catch a Thief becomes a dazzling game of cat and mouse—full of flirtation, deception, and Hitchcock’s signature suspense.

In the early 1930s, the 3-strip Technicolor process was introduced to audiences, inviting them to experience a world dripping with vibrant saturation for the very first time. The Technicolor Summer series ranges from familiar classics to rarely-screened gems all Summer long!

RATED NC-17 — No one 17 and under admitted.

Showgirls is coming back to The Frida Cinema as we celebrate its 30th anniversary with a two-night-only spectacular!

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal (Gina Gershon), a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.

Three decades after its release, Showgirls stands as a striking example of misunderstood cinema—equal parts satire, spectacle, and critique of American capitalism, it may be the shiniest jewel in our Pride Month programming crown for 2025.

Funeral Parade Of Roses is back this June for a one-night-only presentation!

In the neon-lit underworld of 1960s Tokyo, Funeral Parade of Roses follows Eddie (played by gender-nonconforming pop icon Pîtâ), a young transgender nightclub performer navigating love, identity, and rivalry in the city’s queer nightlife scene. As Eddie rises in popularity at a gay bar called Genet, she becomes entangled in a love triangle with Gonda, the bar’s manager, and Leda, her older rival and Gonda’s lover.

An electrifying collision of French New Wave, underground documentary, and psychedelic experimentalism, Funeral Parade Of Roses is perfect for our Pride Month programming series this year.