Halloween Hangover Week

An annual Frida tradition continues with John Carpenter and Debra Hills' landmark slasher Halloween, also playing as part of our Halloween Hangover Week series this November! Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Halloween Hangover Week commences as we team up with our pals at Cinematic Void for a one night only screening the Rocktober classic Trick Or Treat (1986)! Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings Sammi back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...it's life and death. The Cinematic Void preshow starts at 7:30PM and the movie will begin around 8PM!

Up next in our Halloween Hangover Week is Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, screening just in time for its 20th anniversary! The film follows a group of survivors in the aftermath of a sudden and devastating zombie outbreak, led by nurse Ana (Sarah Polley) after she narrowly escapes her home being overrun. She joins forces with a diverse group of strangers, including a police officer (Ving Rhames) and a television salesman (Jake Weber), seeking refuge in a shopping mall. As the undead hordes gather outside, tensions rise inside the mall as the group struggles with survival, moral dilemmas, and the psychological toll of the apocalypse.

Our Halloween Hangover Week continues with Edgar Wright's Zom Rom Com Shaun of the Dead, presented by our friends at Everywhere Beer! The movie follows Shaun (Simon Pegg), an aimless electronics store employee, whose life is falling apart—he's stuck in a dead-end job, and his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) has just broken up with him. But when a zombie outbreak sweeps through London, Shaun seizes the opportunity to prove himself, rallying his best friend Ed (Nick Frost) and a small group of survivors to battle the undead. They attempt to reach the safety of their local pub, The Winchester, but chaos ensues as they face hordes of zombies.

Our Halloween Hangover Week takes an enigmatic turn with Mulholland Drive, David Lynch's 2001 neo-noir mystery! Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a hopeful actress newly arrived in Los Angeles, discovers a woman (Laura Harring) with amnesia hiding in her aunt's apartment. The two women set out to uncover the mystery of the stranger's identity, leading them through a labyrinth of cryptic clues, sinister characters, and dark Hollywood secrets. As their investigation deepens, the narrative becomes increasingly disjointed, reflecting Lynch’s signature exploration of subconscious fears and desires.

Halloween Every Night celebrates 40 years of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street as part of our Halloween Hangover Week! Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Our Halloween Hangover Week winds down with Wes Craven's 1996 slasher Scream, presented on 16mm by See It On 16mm! Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is a high school student in the town of Woodsboro who becomes the target of a masked killer known as Ghostface. As the killer terrorizes the town, picking off Sidney’s friends one by one, the survivors must navigate the killer's twisted game of horror movie tropes. With the help of horror movie-obsessed Randy (Jamie Kennedy), Sidney and her group try to figure out the identity of Ghostface while staying alive.

Halloween Hangover Week ends with Army of Darkness, our first November Volunteer of the Month pick from Ana! Picking up where Evil Dead 2 left off, Ash finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages. Armed with his trusty chainsaw and shotgun, Ash must retrieve the Necronomicon, a powerful book of the dead, in order to return to his own time. However, he mistakenly awakens an army of the undead, leading to a battle between the living and the Deadites. Filled with Raimi's signature slapstick humor, over-the-top action, and memorable one-liners from Campbell, Army of Darkness is a unique entry in the Evil Dead franchise, loved for its campy charm and creative mix of horror and comedy.