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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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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Wake up, Donnie…
Happy Halloween! Donnie Darko, one of the definitive Frida Cinema fan favorites, is finally returning to our screens for the first time in almost two years!
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a troubled teenager in 1988 Virginia, plagued by visions and sleepwalking episodes. One night, a bizarre accident nearly kills him when a jet engine crashes into his bedroom. Surviving only because he wandered outside, Donnie begins seeing a terrifying figure: a man in a grotesque rabbit suit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days.
Before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium.
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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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Directed and co-written by acclaimed actress Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), The Balconettes is her audacious second feature. Co-scripted with Céline Sciamma, it melds comedy, horror, thriller in a genre-smashing good time!
The story is set in a heat wave that brings a Marseille neighborhood to the boil, where three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair…
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Greenwhich Entertainment’s newest release, Went Up The Hill, is coming to The Frida Cinema!
In this chilling ghost story, a recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack (Dacre Montgomery of Stranger Things) and her grieving widow Jill (Vicky Krieps of Phantom Thread and Corsage). When the woman’s spirit inhabits the survivors, the living must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.
Went Up The Hill debuted earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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FanMail Cinema Club is invading The Frida for the first time as they are presenting a very special screening of the 2004 animated classic Shrek 2, featuring themed mini-cakes by Keelys Cake Studio, face painting by La Rainbow Fiesta, merch and photo ops by FanMail Cinema Club, a cosplay contest, and so much more!
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona’s mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along, and there’s tension in the marriage. The Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming and plots to destroy their marriage.
Don’t miss this laugh riot on the big screen with a rowdy crowd full of Shrek fans! Doors open at 7:00PM and the movie will start at 8:15PM sharp!
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The bold, genre-defying horror-Mermaid-musical mashup The Lure is August’s Frida Cinema Members Only screening!
In this playful and confident debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska — a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate ’80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly aura make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit fantasy world of Smoczynska’s imagining. In a visceral twist on Hans Christian Andersen’s original Little Mermaid tale, one sister falls for a human, and as the bonds of sisterhood are tested, the lines between love and survival get blurred. A savage coming-of-age fairytale with a catchy new-wave soundtrack, lavishly grimy sets, and outrageous musical numbers, The Lure explores its themes of sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with energy and originality.
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Step into a world of fairy tale fun, adventure, and a little bit of enchantment with Ella Enchanted, now part of our 21st Century Cult series!
This beloved 2004 fantasy film, starring Anne Hathaway as the spirited Ella, tells the story of a young woman cursed with the “gift” of obedience — a challenge she must overcome to claim her own destiny.
Packed with humor, heart, and plenty of whimsical moments, Ella Enchanted is a perfect movie for anyone who loves a fresh twist on classic fairy tales. Whether you’re revisiting the film or discovering it for the first time, join us for an evening of laughter, magic, and inspiration.
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You’re not supposed to understand it. You’re supposed to feel it. Our Hallucinations series is taking a trip into the Funky Forest, ya’ll!
Welcome to Funky Forest, where plot is optional, logic is irrelevant, and the only rule is: the weirder, the better. A cult favorite of Japan’s experimental film scene, Funky Forest is a sprawling, head-scratching sketch anthology that careens between deadpan comedy, body horror, cosmic nonsense, musical interludes, and pure dream logic. With dozens of characters—like the Guitar Brothers, a dancing colon, and a mysterious alien transmission—it’s a film that feels beamed in from another dimension.
Part Monty Python, part Eraserhead, part pure chaos—it’s not a movie you watch so much as survive.
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