Growing up is hell. Growing up a werewolf is worse.
Our Nu-Classics series, hosted by the amazing Maggie Mae Fish, is sinking its teeth into the cult classic Ginger Snaps! And this month, Maggie is joined by super special guest Morgana Ignis for a post-screening discussion!
Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald are sisters who have always been obsessed with death…and determined to face adolescence on their own terms. But after Ginger is bitten by a mysterious creature on the night of her first period, her body begins changing in ways neither sister can explain.
John Fawcett’s 2000 Canadian horror classic is a wickedly smart spin on the werewolf movie, turning puberty, sisterhood, sexuality, and the fear of growing up into one gloriously bloody transformation. It has earned its place as a modern horror classic, and one of the sharpest coming-of-age movies to ever sink its teeth into the genre.
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Trash-Mex is back at The Frida Cinema to present the Mexican horror classic Hasta el viento tiene meido aka Even The Wind is Afraid!
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Invoking Dario Argento’s Suspiria and the works of Mario Bava, Even The Wind is Afraid is a Mexican horror film draped in macabre moods and stunning Gothic ambience. Any appetite for genuine chills will be sated in full!
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A 4K restoration of the anime classic Ninja Scroll is coming to The Frida Cinema for two days only!
When Jubei saves a young ninja woman from the unthinkable, he assumes that’s the end of it. To his surprise, it’s only just the beginning. Together, the two investigate the mysterious deaths of an entire village which uncovers a conspiracy of demonic proportions! Getting closer to the truth, the demonic forces will stop at nothing to silence Jubei and his companion for good!
Written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Ninja Scroll was originally released in 1993 and is now considered a truly seminal work in anime filmmaking. The restoration, a meticulous process that involved a 4K scan (3840 × 2160 pixels) of the original 35mm negative, was supervised by director Kawajiri.
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Kwaidan has been given the 4K restoration treatment via our friends at Janus Films, so of course we’re kicking off our October programming with it!
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted.
Please note: the DCP version of Kwaidan is a 4K restoration of the original three-hour cut.
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Celebrate 50 years of the Antichrist at The Frida as we present the original The Omen as part of our Art House of Horror: Presented by MUBI series!
When American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) and his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) welcome their new son Damien, they believe their prayers for a child have finally been answered. But as a series of increasingly horrifying deaths surrounds the family, Robert begins to uncover a terrifying possibility: Damien may not be the child they thought he was.
Richard Donner’s supernatural horror classic turns a seemingly perfect family into the center of an apocalyptic nightmare, elevated by Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-winning score, an unforgettable performance by Peck, and some of the most infamous death scenes in horror history. A massive box-office success that spawned sequels, a remake, and decades of imitators, The Omen remains one of the defining horror films of the 1970s.
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Enter the darkness of Begotten, the next film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series!
A mysterious figure known only as God kills himself. From his corpse, Mother Earth emerges. From their union, a Son is born. What follows is a nightmarish cycle of birth, death, violence, and rebirth played out across a barren, otherworldly landscape.
E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten is less a traditional horror film than it is a true cinematic night. Shot in stark black and white, with every frame painstakingly processed to resemble a decaying photograph, the film unfolds without conventional dialogue or narrative. Its haunting imagery is the stuff of avant-garde cinema legend. A legendary midnight movie experience that has influenced generations of experimental filmmakers and horror artists, Begotten is an unsettling vision of creation itself. Don’t miss this brand new 4K restoration on the big screen!
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You can’t keep a bad girl down!
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is the next film up in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by Mubi series!
A rip-roaring sequel-in-name-only to the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher from 1980, this film delivers the goods in both the kills and teenage angst departments. Here, a ‘50s prom queen is sautéed alive in a school fire, and her horny, vengeful ghost pops up in the ‘80s to slice-’n-dice the Breakfast Club.
Featuring the iconic Michael Ironside as a high school principal and death via Apple II computers, this underrated slasher is a perfectly paced melding of Carrie, A Nigthmare on Elm Street, and Sam Raimi!
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Please note: the 10:00PM screening on Friday, October 16th will have an intro by our friends at Cinematic Void and The American Cinematheque!
Andrzej Żuławski’s unforgettable cult classic Possession is the next film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series!
When Mark (Sam Neill) returns home to West Berlin, he discovers that his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) wants a divorce, and that something far stranger than another man may be tearing their marriage apart. As their relationship spirals into obsession, jealousy, and violence, Mark begins to suspect that Anna is hiding a horrifying secret.
It’s unclassifiable, and yet…it’s a total masterpiece that finds its way back to our screens at least once a year. It’s is a fever dream of marital breakdown, anchored by two astonishing performances. Isabelle Adjani (winner of Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival that year) throws herself into one of cinema’s most legendary displays of emotional and physical extremity, while the late, great Sam Neill gives a raw performance that helped introduce audiences to a face they would come to know and love for the next forty years.
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The Exorcist is the next film up in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series!
When young Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior, her desperate mother Chris (Ellen Burstyn) turns to doctors, psychiatrists, and finally the Catholic Church for answers. As Father Karras (Jason Miller) struggles with his own crisis of faith, he and Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) confront an ancient evil in one of the most terrifying battles between good and evil ever committed to film.
William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece shattered the boundaries of mainstream horror, turning a story of demonic possession into a deeply unsettling drama about many things, but mostly…the nature of evil. From its unnerving sound design and groundbreaking makeup effects to unforgettable performances from its extraordinary cast, The Exorcist became a cultural phenomenon and remains one of the defining horror films of the 20th century.
Please note: we will be screening a 4K restoration of the 122 minute Theatrical Cut of the film!
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The first film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series for October is the 1968 chilling masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby!
Newlyweds Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into a beautiful New York City apartment, where their new neighbors, the overly friendly Roman and Minnie Castevet, take an unusual interest in the young couple. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her excitement quickly gives way to suspicion as strange occurrences, unsettling dreams, and sinister secrets begin to close in around her.
This landmark Horror classic transformed the ordinary anxieties of pregnancy and domestic life into something truly terrifying that has echoed on in the world of cinema for almost 60 years. Farrow’s unforgettable performance lends a brilliantly oppressive sense of paranoia, making the movie truly unforgettable all these years later.
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