Before you die, you see…
The Ring (2002) is our next Sunday Scaries movie, presented by Play It By Fear (@playitbyfear.33)!
Director Gore Verbinski’s chilling American reimagining of a Japanese nightmare follows a journalist (Naomi Watts) who investigates a mysterious videotape linked to a string of sudden deaths. As she races to uncover the tape’s origins, the line between urban legend and supernatural curse begins to dissolve.
Rain-soaked and deeply unnerving, The Ring helped redefine studio horror for the 2000s, continuing this month’s theme of when PG-13 movies were actually scary!
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The Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of its stunning rooms. Except one.
Remember when PG-13 movies were actually scary? Play It By Fear (@playitbyfear.33) continues their Sunday Scaries series with a descent into one of the most unsettling hotel rooms in horror: 1408, based on a story by Stephen King!
A skeptical paranormal writer who debunks hauntings for a living books a stay in the infamous Room 1408 of New York’s Dolphin Hotel, determined to prove the legends false. But once inside, he finds himself trapped in a shifting psychological nightmare where the room itself seems to know his fears…and how to use them.
A stripped-down, actor-driven chiller, 1408 stands out for turning a single location into a relentless mind game, proving that sometimes the scariest places aren’t abandoned houses or dark woods, but a room you can’t ever check out of.
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Join us for the final film of our Pre-Code Day celebration as we present a brand new 4K restoration of Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat! Joining us for a special pre-screening introduction for the film will be Kim Luperi, the co-author of the TCM/Running Press book Pre-Code Essentials: Must-See Cinema from Hollywood’s Untamed Era, 1930-1934!
Unlike the gothic fantasy tone of many early Universal horrors, The Black Cat leans into a modern, post-World War I despair. The story is steeped in trauma and betrayal, with Boris Karloff playing one of the era’s coldest villains and Bela Lugosi giving a truly haunted performance.
For a 1934 studio horror, it’s shockingly dark and less of a monster movie as it is a morbid meditation on war and human corruption.
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You joined us for our Friday The 13th and Friday The 13th: Part 2 double feature last month, so in March…let’s do it again! Only this time…we’ll be returning to Camp Crystal Lake for Friday The 13th: Part 3 and Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter!
Friday the 13th: Part 3 – A new group of friends heads to a lakeside cabin expecting sun, booze, and bad decisions…instead they find themselves stalked by the unstoppable Jason Voorhees!
And after a brief ten minute intermission, it’s time for Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter – Crystal Lake isn’t done with terror yet, as another group of locals and visitors faces a night of relentless suspense in one of the series’ fastest, fiercest entries.
Together, these two films continued the slasher phenomenon into new territory, and they’re an absolute blast to watch with a crowd on the big screen. Join us on Friday The 13th of March and celebrate this holiday tradition that won’t seem to die…
There will be a ten minute intermission between each film. One ticket gets you access to both movies!
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Darkness has awakened. The Containment is coming to The Frida Cinema!
A girl is possessed by a dark and mysterious entity. She will fight with all the elements at her disposal to get rid of it. Neither her mother, nor traditional medicine, nor a supposed expert in exorcisms, will be able to make the demon disappear, until a nun gets involved in the case and sows a doubt more terrible than the possession itself.
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Please note: the McManus Brothers will no longer be joining us for this screening! Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
Revenge is a vicious cycle.
The slick sci-fi multiverse revenge action thriller Redux Redux is coming to The Frida Cinema for one night only!
In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels across parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by her quest for revenge, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.
The film received great reviews hot off of its premiere at SXSW in 2025 and sports an insanely impressive 98% on Rotten Tomatoes!
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A group of college students attend a watch party for their friend’s newest independent film. The night takes a dark turn when a masked killer starts brutally killing the partygoers one at a time. With each death time resets and we see the events of the night through the eyes of the next attendee.
Amateur student filmmaker, Sean Davis, invites five friends over for the premiere of his overlong short film he made entirely on his own. Not only is Sean’s movie awful, but things just keep getting worse as the screening party attendees are stalked by a ruthless killer in a mask.
Over a single night, the mystery unfolds through the eyes of Wes, Mark, Kris, Anna, Peter, and Sean, changing between their distorted individual perspectives. With each perspective, more answers are revealed as characters generally live longer and see more than the last. Time resets over and over, seeing the party through all their perspectives. Plans go wrong, romance blossoms unexpectedly, the body count rises, and the Killer’s identity and motives are revealed. The subversive final perspective hilariously pays off everything set up in the previous ones.
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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Your luck just ran out.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s day at The Frida Cinema with a special screening of Leprechaun, presented by our friends at Nostalgic Nebula! Arrive early for a retrospective pre-show video, Leprechaun trivia with prizes, a spooky photo op, chocolate gold coins! But beware of the Leprechaun…try as you may, try as you might, who steals his gold won’t live through the night!
As a special treat, there will be a tele-Q&A with actor Mark Holton at the start of the show, so prep those Leprechaun questions!
Dan O’Grady (Shay Duffin) steals 100 gold coins from a leprechaun (Warwick Davis) while on vacation in Ireland. The leprechaun follows him home, but Dan locks him in a crate, held at bay by a four-leaf clover. Ten years later, J.D. Redding (John Sanderford) and his daughter, Tory (Jennifer Aniston), rent O’Grady’s property for the summer. When their new neighbors accidentally release the leprechaun, he goes on a murderous rampage to reclaim his gold.
Doors open and pre-show begins at 7:00PM! Movie and Q&A starts at 7:30PM!
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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Only monsters play God.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, the movie he was born to make, is finally coming alive at The Frida Cinema starting on February 27th!
The story follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist (played by Oscar Isaac) who brings a monstrous creature to life in a daring experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
The film has now received 9 Academy Award nominations for the 98th Academy Awards (2026), including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi’s transformative performance as The Monster. The film also scored major technical nominations for cinematography, original score, costume design, makeup/hairstyling, production design, and sound.
Thank you to Netflix for allowing us to play this gorgeous creation where it belongs to be seen: on the big screen.
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Our Hallucinations series heads to the seaside one final time (for this sub-series, at least) for director Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Shout!
Adapted from Robert Graves’ short story, The Shout follows a mysterious traveler, Crossley, who takes advantage of a young couple’s hospitality. Claiming to have learned an Aboriginal ‘terror shout,’ Crossley threatens the couple’s safety and sanity.
Skolimowski’s film is dreamlike and disorienting, playing out like a hallucination (see what we did there?). It’s not a conventional horror movie by any means, using fractured timelines and the barren English coastal to slowly create an existential nightmare.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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