To round out an absolutely wild ride of an October lineup, we have saved the best…and grooviest…for last! We are unleashing Sam Raimi’s legendary splatstick masterpiece Evil Dead II starting on October 30th!
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.
Packed with jaw-dropping camera tricks, cartoonish gore, and Campbell’s unparalleled gift for physical comedy, Evil Dead II is the ultimate late night movie ride–a delirious blender of scares and slapstick that has kept audiences howling (and shrieking) for decades.
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Step right up to the scariest lawn on the block! The Frida Cinema invites you to re-live the spooky-fun thrills of the animated adventure Monster House!
DJ, Chowder, and Jenny are just your average neighborhood kids until they realize the creepy house across the street is alive–and hungry. With no adults believing them, it’s up to this brave trio to uncover the mystery, outwit the snarling structure, and maybe save the entire neighborhood from being swallowed whole.
Packed with clever scares, witty banter, and a perfect mix of chills and chuckles, Monster House is a rollicking animated gem that delivers Halloween vibes year-round.
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Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.
A bloodsucker blast of style and sass, Joel Schumacher’s cult classic The Lost Boys has joined our Halloween week lineup!
In the sleepy town of Santa Carla, brothers Michael and Sam (Jason Patric and Corey Haim) discover the boardwalk nightlife hides more than just roller coasters and neon thrills. Enter a gang of leather-clad, motorcycle-riding vampires led by the magnetic David (Kiefer Sutherland), and suddenly it’s bloodsucking, comic book wisdom, and holy water squirt guns galore.
Dripping with MTV swagger, a killer soundtrack (INXS! Echo & the Bunnymen!), and unforgettable performances from the “two Coreys,” The Lost Boys redefined the teen vampire movie as a sexy, funny, and stylish rollercoaster of horror and humor.
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Our Page To Screen series is digging its way to the beloved teen classic Holes!
Nothing is as it seems at Camp Green Lake, where unlucky teen Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf in his breakout role) is sentenced to endless days of digging holes in the blazing sun. But beneath the desert dirt lies a buried mystery — a story that winds through generations of curses, outlaws, and lost treasure. With the help of his fellow campers (including scene-stealer Khleo Thomas as Zero), Stanley may just uncover more than anyone bargained for.
Based on Louis Sachar’s award-winning novel, Holes is a rare teen film that balances humor, heart, and adventure while staying true to its literary roots. Featuring a stellar cast of Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, and Patricia Arquette, it’s an endlessly rewatchable tale of friendship.
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It’s been a long time since we’ve fired up the Ecto-1 and presented screenings of Ivan Reitman’s original Ghostbusters, so we figure what better time than Halloween week!?
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists (played by the legendary team of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson) goes into business as proton-pack-toting “ghostbusters” who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
Ghostbusters wasn’t just a hit movie–it’s a cultural juggernaut. The mix of sharp comedy, supernatural thrills, and groundbreaking special effects struck a chord with audiences, making it one of the defining blockbusters of the 1980s.
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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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