The Frida Cinema is paying tribute to legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne in the only way that we know how: with a limited run of the 1986 freak show Trick Or Treat!
When rocker Sammi Curr (Tony Fields) burns to death in a hotel fire, his number one fan, devastated high school student Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price), becomes embroiled in a supernatural turn of events driven by his desire for revenge against his bullies.
Widely regarded as a cult oddity and beloved by heavy metal fans and ’80s horror enthusiasts, Trick Or Treat is often described as a perfect time capsule of the “Satanic Panic” era, blending teen horror and a hard rock/metal aesthetic.
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The Frida Cinema is excited to partner with the Production Designers Collective a very special screening of Spike Jonze’s 2002 masterwork Adaptation! And make sure to stick around after the screening for a very special Q&A with the film’s Production Designer–K.K. Barrett (Her, Marie Antoinette).
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean, Kaufman’s life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean’s book, become strangely intertwined as each one’s search for passion collides with the others’.
A modern classic of postmodern cinema, Adaptation fuses Jonze’s inventive direction with Kaufman’s whip-smart script and self-referential chaos.
This event will be an official part of International Production Design Week.
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From the twisted mind of writer/director Ari Aster springs Eddington, his surrealist (or is it?) nightmare time capsule comedy. And thanks to our friends over at Production Designers Collective, stick around after the screening for a very special Q&A with the film’s Production Designer–Elliott Hostetter (The Neon Demon, Bones & All).
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. Hindsight is 2020.
Starring an all-star cast of Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, the film debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and was released just this past Summer.
This event will be an official part of International Production Design Week.
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Our friends at See It On 16mm are back! And this time they’re unspooling Charles Barton’s monster mash classic Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein!
Nothing is as it seems when bumbling baggage clerks Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) find themselves caught in a comedy of terrors. Dracula’s coffin, the Wolf Man’s curse, Frankenstein’s monster — all land in their laps, and the results are shrieks of laughter mixed with genuine chills. Can these two scaredy-cats survive a night in the castle?
A horror-comedy landmark and one of Universal’s greatest monster rallies, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein brings together Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., and Glenn Strange for a frightful fiesta of classic ghouls.
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Animation lovers, we didn’t forget about you this Spooky Season! We’re delighted to be running 20th anniversary screenings of Nick Park’s claymation caper Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit!
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park’s animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit combines stop-motion wizardry, cozy British humor, and monster-movie parody into one endlessly charming package.
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The Frida Cinema is pumped to present Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer as our Volunteer Of The Month pick for October courtesy of Nathan!
Nothing is as it seems on the field, where disgraced ex-players, washed-up coaches, and a ragtag crew of kung-fu brothers band together to reclaim their glory through the beautiful game. Watch as Shaolin monks bend physics, rocket soccer balls through the air like cannon fire, and unleash outrageous special moves that would make even Bruce Lee raise an eyebrow.
A gravity-defying kick of pure joy for martial arts maniacs and sports movie fanatics alike, Shaolin Soccer was a global smash and instant cult classic.
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Bad neighbors…beware! Tom Holland’s Fright Night, the wickedly funny cult classic that brought vampires screaming into the 1980s, returns to the big screen at The Frida for its 40th Anniversary!
All-American teen Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) thinks he’s got it made—until he discovers that the mysterious stranger who just moved in next door is actually a vampire (Chris Sarandon, in suavely sinister form). With no one believing him, Charley turns to a washed-up late-night horror host, Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), for help. Together, they must take on the undead lurking right next door before Charley’s friends—and even his girlfriend—fall under the vampire’s thrall.
Loaded with practical effects and gothic atmosphere, Fright Night is both a love letter to classic horror and a blood-soaked thrill ride that still bites hard (in a good way).
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Wazzzzzzzzup!? This year marks 25 years of Scary Movie, the outrageous horror spoof that crushed box office records and left audiences crying with laughter. And now, it’s coming back to the big screen for one night only courtesy of our friends at Nostalgic Nebula! Stop by early for a themed photo op, jam to early 2000’s Halloween beats, and participate in a “Guess the Killer” game on stage!
Before Not Another Teen Movie or Shaun of the Dead, there was Scary Movie—a razor-sharp parody from director Keenen Ivory Wayans that skewered every slasher trope in sight. Mashing up Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer and about a billion other movies (and commercials?), the film introduced the world to Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris in her breakout role), bumbling stoners, clueless cops, and the goofiest Ghostface ever put to screen, making it one of the most memorable turn-of-the-Millenium comedies.
This program is a venue rental engagement. The views and opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Frida Cinema or its staff.
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This screening is open to Film Club Members only.
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Student Film Club Members are invited to a very special back to school screening of La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher’s sun-drenched Italian adventure genre-masher!
La Chimera follows Arthur (Josh O’Connor), a disheveled British archaeologist recently released from prison, as he drifts back into the orbit of a ragtag band of tombaroli—tomb raiders who plunder ancient Etruscan ruins in search of artifacts to sell on the black market. Haunted by visions of his lost love and the ghosts of a vanished world, Arthur embarks on a journey that blurs the lines between past and present, myth and memory.
Infused with Rohrwacher’s signature blend of earthy magic realism, La Chimera is an excavation of the soul and an absolute can’t-miss on the big screen with your fellow Student Film Club members!
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What do you get when you have three generations of comedians in one family, and someone dies? If you guessed an independent autobiographical self-funded feature-length dark comedy, you’d be absolutely right. D(e)AD is written by and starring Isabella Roland (Dropout.tv, Sex Lives Of College Girls); and directed by and starring Isabella’s mom, Claudia Lonow (creator/showrunner of How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life, Accidentally on Purpose, Good Girls Don’t and Rude Awakening); and also the rest of their family.
Tillie (Isabella Roland), a floundering young woman and her charismatic, alcoholic father (Craig Bierko), struggle to resolve their fractured relationship in the weirdest possible way: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie. Tillie’s sister, Violet (Vic Michaelis), mother (Claudia Lonow), grandparents (Mark Lonow and Joanne Astrow), stepfather (Jonathan Schmock), and even Violet’s free-spirited baby daddy (Nick Marini), must do everything they can to make Tillie see her father… even employing a very reform rabbi (Eddie Peppitone) to exorcize him… or else they will be plagued by this ghost forever.
Just added: before the screening, we will be joined by Izzy Roland, Claudia Lonow, and Jonathan Schmock for a special in-person introduction!
Tickets are $15 for this special event and $40 for a ticket + exclusive poster for the film!
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