If you’ve got a taste for terror…take Carrie to the prom.
We’re celebrating The Frida Cinema’s 12th birthday with a very special 50th anniversary screening of Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece Carrie! Put your best tux or dress on and join us for a night of music, photo ops, vendors, a Prom court crowning, and so much more!
Based on Stephen (Prom) King’s debut novel, Carrie centers on Carrie White, a shy, socially isolated high school girl who lives under the oppressive control of her fanatically religious mother. After enduring relentless bullying at school and humiliation at home, Carrie begins to discover she possesses powerful telekinetic abilities. As her classmates plan a prom night that promises acceptance and normalcy, unseen forces set the stage for one of the most devastating final acts in cinema history.
Tickets are limited, so get them before they’re gone! No encores. Frida Cinema member discounts DO apply. Doors open at 7:00PM. Movie begins at 8:00PM sharp! Stick around after the movie for the official Carrie Prom Night After Party!
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It’s time to dance with the Devil…again.
Ryan Coogler’s genre-mashing dance party from Hell, Sinners, is back at The Frida Cinema after winning four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw, and Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson!
Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era, Sinners follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) as they return home after years away trying to leave their troubled pasts behind. With plans to open a juke joint for their community using money earned in Chicago, the celebration takes a dark turn when supernatural forces are awakened and begin to menace the town.
A towering modern classic, Sinners has unheard of levels of ambition in the modern Hollywood landcape. Whether you’ve seen it already or are experiencing it for the first time, there’s no denying that the big screen is the best place to celebrate its massive success.
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They were warned…they are doomed…and on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
Join us as we return to Camp Crystal Lake for the chilling one-two punch that launched one of horror’s most enduring franchises. We’re screening a double feature of Friday The 13th Parts 1 & 2!
Friday the 13th (1980) arrived at the height of the slasher boom and quickly carved out its own place in genre history. With its isolated lakeside setting mixed with those iconic and ominous point-of-view camerawork, the film builds suspense through atmosphere more than pure bloodshed, but don’t worry, there’s plenty of that.
And after a brief ten minute intermission, it’s time for Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), the sequel that expands the Jason Voorhees mythology and introduces the figure who would become the face of the franchise.
Together, these two films chart the birth of a slasher phenomenon, and they’re an absolute blast to watch with a crowd on the big screen. Join us and celebrate this holiday tradition that won’t seem to die…
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Play It By Fear (@playitbyfear.33) continues their brand new series, Sunday Scaries, with a belated 40th anniversary celebration of Steve Miner’s House!
After the disappearance of his young son and a painful divorce, horror novelist Roger Cobb (William Katt) retreats to his late aunt’s spooky old mansion to write a book about his Vietnam War experiences. But solitude isn’t what he finds. The house is alive–filled with vengeful spirits, interdimensional portals, demonic entities, and at least one closet that REALLY needs a warning sign, man.
House is a gloriously bizarre blend of haunted-house horror and off-kilter comedy that only the 1980s could have produced. It’s a cult classic has earned a devoted following for one simple reason: it’s genuinely weird as hell.
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Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing Obex, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
Baltimore-based writer-director Albert Birney (Strawberry Mansion, 2021 Sundance Film Festival) returns with another delightfully skewed and surreal lo-fi fantasy. Set in pre-internet 1987 and strikingly shot in monochromatic black and white, the film depicts Conor’s (Birney) lonely existence of solitary screen time, transfixed by early Macs with slowly rendering graphics and TVs aglow with the horror movie late show.
Matching these hypnotic images, Birney immerses us in a dense soundscape of warm droning synths, clacking keyboards, malevolent static, chirping cicadas, and the click and whine of dot matrix printers. The film’s dreamy nostalgia soon becomes an analog nightmare as Conor finds himself trapped in a low-tech but high-stakes video game.
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Love. Music. Horror. Volcanos. Cinema was never meant to be like this!
Our Hallucinations series is kicking off 2026 the Horror-Musical from master filmmaker Takashi Miike: The Happiness Of The Katakuris!
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
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Anytime. Anywhere. Anyone.
Moviebusters are taking us back to the coldest corner of horror history with some encores of John Carpenter’s The Thing–now in a new 4K restoration! And as an added bonus, Alan Howarth, a frequent collaborator with John Carpenter, will be joining us for a post-screening Q&A hosted by Scott Zilner! Alan worked closely with composer Ennio Morricone and contributed additional synthesizer-based musical pieces and sound design work for the film. He will be signing autographs in the theater lobby before the film!
What begins as a simple rescue mission at a remote Antarctic outpost quickly dissolves into a nightmare of shape-shifting terror. When a mysterious organism infiltrates U.S. research station Outpost 31, it doesn’t attack its victims…it becomes them. With no way out and no way to tell who’s human, the team must confront an enemy capable of wearing any face…including their own.
What can be said about The Thing that hasn’t already been said? This 1982 masterpiece redefined paranoia horror, practical effects (by the incredible Ron Botin and his team), and the art of keeping an audience on the very edge of its seat in only a way that the master of horror, John Carpenter, can do.
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. Frida Cinema member discounts and comp passes do not apply.
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A singing plant. A daring hero. A sweet girl. A demented dentist. It’s the most outrageous musical comedy ever made! HorrorBuzz caps off its year of 40th anniversary screenings with the show-stopping musical Little Shop of Horrors!
Meek flower-shop clerk Seymour Krelborn (Frida favorite Rick Moranis) discovers a mysterious plant after a solar eclipse and names it Audrey II, after his coworker-crush Audrey (Ellen Greene). But this plant doesn’t want sunlight or water….it wants blood. As Audrey II grows from a cute little sprout to a fast-talking menace, Seymour must choose between fame, fortune, and doing the right thing…preferably before the plant eats the whole block.
Horror Movie Night takes filmgoing to another level with a full night of entertainment, including a themed HMN Video Pres-how, Trivia, Games, Prizes, and another outstanding horror short from HorrorBuzz’s The Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream.
Doors open and video pre-show video begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Games, prizes, and short film begin at 8:00PM. Feature starts at 8:30PM.
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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After a decade of silence…the buzz came back. HorrorBuzz is slicing up our October lineup with a 40th anniversary party of unhinged insanity: Tobe Hooper’s gloriously deranged sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2!
When late-night DJ Stretch accidentally records a pair of murders committed by the Sawyer clan, she teams up with the unhinged Lieutenant “Lefty” Enright (a chainsaw-wielding Dennis Hopper in one of the wildest performances of his career). Their mission: descend into the Sawyer family’s subterranean lair of meat, madness, and twinkling Christmas lights to put an end to the carnage once and for all.
Horror Movie Night takes filmgoing to another level with a full night of entertainment, including a themed HMN Video Pres-how, Trivia, Games, Prizes, and another outstanding horror short from HorrorBuzz’s The Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream.
Doors open and video pre-show video begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Games, prizes, and short film begin at 8:00PM. Feature starts at 8:30PM.
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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He’s not Freddy, he’s not Jason…he’s real. HorrorBuzz continues its 2026 series with the 40th anniversary of one of the most unsettling and influential films of the 1980s: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
Loosely inspired by the confessions of real-life murderer Henry Lee Lucas, the movie follows drifter Henry (played by iconic silver screen “that guy” Michael Rooker) and his volatile accomplice Otis as they navigate a bleak Chicago landscape. When Otis’s sister Becky moves in, Henry’s flat affect and unpredictable behavior begin to reveal something far darker beneath the surface.
Horror Movie Night takes filmgoing to another level with a full night of entertainment, including a themed HMN Video Pres-how, Trivia, Games, Prizes, and another outstanding horror short from HorrorBuzz’s The Screaming Room Film Festival at Midsummer Scream.
Doors open and video pre-show video begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Games, prizes, and short film begin at 8:00PM. Feature starts at 8:30PM.
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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