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Our three film tribute to our favorite scream king, Sam Neill, continues with John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness in a stunning brand new 4K resotration via Warner Brothers!

When best-selling horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) mysteriously vanishes, skeptical insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) is sent to track him down. But as Trent digs deeper into Cane’s disappearance, he discovers a terrifying world where fiction infects reality, madness spreads like a virus, and the boundaries of existence dissolve into nightmare.

A Lovecraftian and meta-cinematic mind warp, Carpenter’s cult classic is a supremely underrated descent into cosmic terror that also contains another one of his all-timer synth scores.

Are you ready to make television history?

The Frida Cinema is bringing in a limited run of Primetime, the fascinating new docudrama from director Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers.

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

About as provocative as mainstream art house thriller can get, Primetime is an electric and audacious entry into the A24 canon filled to the brim with with brilliant performances.

Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning, Assisted Listening, and Audio Description capability!

Celebrate 50 years of the Antichrist at The Frida as we present the original The Omen as part of our Art House of Horror: Presented by MUBI series! 

When American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) and his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) welcome their new son Damien, they believe their prayers for a child have finally been answered. But as a series of increasingly horrifying deaths surrounds the family, Robert begins to uncover a terrifying possibility: Damien may not be the child they thought he was.

Richard Donner’s supernatural horror classic turns a seemingly perfect family into the center of an apocalyptic nightmare, elevated by Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-winning score, an unforgettable performance by Peck, and some of the most infamous death scenes in horror history. A massive box-office success that spawned sequels, a remake, and decades of imitators, The Omen remains one of the defining horror films of the 1970s.

Continuing our journey through the many forms Queer Cinema can take, The Frida Cinema is proud to present Kantemir Balagov’s devastating postwar drama: Beanpole.

In the ruins of Leningrad just after the end of World War II, two young women struggle to rebuild their lives after serving together on the front lines. Iya, a physically imposing nurse known as “Beanpole,” suffers from mysterious seizures that leave her incapacitated, while her fiercely determined friend Masha returns from the war carrying a secret that binds their futures together. As the two women attempt to find some semblance of normalcy amid the devastation, their intense and often volatile relationship becomes the center of their shattered world.

Winner of the Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Balagov’s Beanpole is a haunting portrait of survival. Less explicitly queer as some of the other films in this series, this is an overwhelming portrait of two women searching for connection in a world that has been almost completely destroyed.

Enter the darkness of Begotten, the next film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series! 

A mysterious figure known only as God kills himself. From his corpse, Mother Earth emerges. From their union, a Son is born. What follows is a nightmarish cycle of birth, death, violence, and rebirth played out across a barren, otherworldly landscape.

E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten is less a traditional horror film than it is a true cinematic night. Shot in stark black and white, with every frame painstakingly processed to resemble a decaying photograph, the film unfolds without conventional dialogue or narrative. Its haunting imagery is the stuff of avant-garde cinema legend.  A legendary midnight movie experience that has influenced generations of experimental filmmakers and horror artists, Begotten is an unsettling vision of creation itself. Don’t miss this brand new 4K restoration on the big screen!