21st Century Cult
Our 21st Century Cult series, highlighting fan favorite films of the 2000s and 2010s, returns for another year of late night screenings!
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- Fri, May 16
- Sat, May 17
- Sun, May 18
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 2014
Starring: Arash Marandi, Dominic Rains, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Navabi, Sheila Vand
Our second Volunteer Of The Month pick goes to Hillary, who has chosen Frida Cinema favorite Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, also doubling as an entry into our 21st Century Cult series! Set in the fictional Iranian ghost town of Bad City, the film follows a chador-cloaked vampire (Sheila Vand) who stalks the night on a skateboard, preying on men who underestimate her. Shot in sumptuous black-and-white, it’s a hauntingly stylish tale of loneliness, justice, and bloodlust—where underground rock, spaghetti western swagger, and quiet longing swirl into something fierce and unforgettable. Part vampire noir, part feminist revenge fantasy, and entirely its own hypnotic beast, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a genre-smashing cult sensation—equal parts Sergio Leone, Jim Jarmusch, and graphic novel fever dream. A bold debut that announced a major new voice in genre cinema, this is arthouse horror with some serious bite!
But I’m a Cheerleader: Presented By OC Pride
- Fri, Jun 20
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jamie Babbit Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 2000
Starring: Cathy Moriarty, Clea DuVall, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, RuPaul
Join us as we partner up with our friends at OC Pride to bring you a special screening the 1999 queer cult classic But I'm A Cheerleader! Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight. Bring your friends, wear pink if you dare, and relive (or discover) a certified Frida Cinema Favorite the way it deserves to be experienced: loudly and proudly, in a movie theater! A portion of ticket sales for this screening will go to fund the Teen Pride Zone at the OC Pride Festival, which will be planned by the LGBT Center OC's youth group!