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Cinematic Void is back at The Frida to headline Friday night of our Halloween Hangover Weekend as they present a special 30th anniversary screening of John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness in a stunning brand new 4K resotration via Warner Brothers!
When best-selling horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) mysteriously vanishes, skeptical insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) is sent to track him down. But as Trent digs deeper into Cane’s disappearance, he discovers a terrifying world where fiction infects reality, madness spreads like a virus, and the boundaries of existence dissolve into nightmare.
A Lovecraftian and meta-cinematic mind warp, Carpenter’s cult classic is a supremely underrated descent into cosmic terror that also contains another one of his all-timer synth scores.
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Malibu Horror Story follows a team of amateur paranormal investigators as they delve into an unresolved case involving the disappearance of four popular high school boys from Malibu, California. While investigating a sacred cave in the Malibu hills, the team encounters chilling paranormal occurrences and uncovers a terrifying discovery that reveals an ancient curse, forcing them to confront their deepest fears and unravel the sinister truth behind the boys’ vanishing.
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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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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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The Frida Cinema pays tribute to Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur with a shadowy double feature of Cat People and The Leopard Man!
In Cat People, a young woman’s secret obsession with a Balkan curse blurs the line between love, repression, and deadly feline transformation. In The Leopard Man, a small New Mexico town is gripped by terror when an escaped circus cat–or perhaps something far worse–begins claiming victims in the night. Who stalks the darkness: beast or human?
Brimming with moody cinematography, eerie sound design, and suggestive scares, both films exemplify RKO’s golden age of psychological horror. These flicks might not satisfy fans of buckets of gore, but they’ll still stay with you long after you left the theater.
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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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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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It’s October at The Frida Cinema, so it’s time, once again, to present the original theatrical cut of William Friedkin’s horror masterpiece The Exorcist!
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl’s mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the Devil. Her daughter’s only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
One of the most influential and infamous horror films of all time, The Exorcist shocked 1970s audiences with its chilling atmosphere and groundbreaking effects. But it’s the central performances from Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, and Linda Blair that still horrify fifty years later.
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They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs. We’re running a double feature of Lamberto Bava’s Demons & Demons 2!
First up: welcome to the most life-enriching Italian terror-party of 1985. Produced by Dario and directed by Lamberto Bava, Demons follows a panorama of punks, preppies, and ne’er-do-wells as they get trapped in a movie theater and possessed by gut-shredding Satanic demonoids. Featuring songs by Mötley Crüe and Billy Idol, gloopy effects, and the iconic Geretta Geretta in a lead role, this is the most fun you’ll ever have in a movie theater while watching a movie about beasties on the loose in a movie theater.
And then: Demons 2 takes place in a high-rise apartment building full of families, fitness buffs, and party animals that watch a movie-within-a-movie on TV that’s also a sequel to Demons (???). But before long, the evil escapes and turns the real world into a living hell. Demons 2 is a joyful, meta-enhanced goreblast that mutilates logic and delivers exactly what we want: outrageous goop, a rad post-punk soundtrack, and a demon dog with a demon puppet living inside of it. To quote the movie’s original tagline: “Let’s party!”
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We’re very excited to announce that Rialto Pictures is rolling out their brand new 4K restoration of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder for a limited run at The Frida Cinema on October 20th-23rd!
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.
This restoration was completed by ROUNDABOUT – USA from the original negative scanned and restored in 4K. The color grading and restoration was supervised by Adrian Lyne. This project was brought to you by STUDIOCANAL and supervised by Delphine Roussel and Jean-Pierre Boiget.
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