Do you like scary movies?
Wes Craven’s Scream, the film that redefined the entire horror genre, slashes its way back onto our screen this Halloween!
The sleepy town of Woodsboro is shaken by a string of brutal murders committed by a masked killer known as Ghostface. At the center is Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), a teenager still reeling from her mother’s unsolved murder a year earlier. As Ghostface stalks her and her friends, Sidney must navigate suspicion, trauma, and a mounting body count—all while horror-savvy classmates riff on the “rules” of surviving a scary movie.
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Our friends at See It On 16mm are back for their annual unspooling of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead—the black-and-white nightmare that redefined horror and gave birth to the modern zombie movie!
Released in 1968, and unlike anything audiences had ever seen, Night of the Living Dead strands a small group of strangers inside a farmhouse besieged by the ravenous dead. As flesh-hungry ghouls close in outside, tensions boil over inside—fear, mistrust, and violence consuming the survivors faster than the monsters themselves.
Shot on a shoestring budget in Pittsburgh, Romero’s debut is both a relentless siege thriller and a searing social commentary–it shattered taboos with its shocking gore and stark realism. To this very day, it stand nexts to classics like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, and The Blair Witch Project as a game-changing genre masterpiece.
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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Possession is back for some Halloween Hangover encores with a 4K restoration thanks to our friends at Kino Lorber!
Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani, in a role that earned her a Best Actress win at Cannes Film Festival) insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession is a stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling and one of the great WTF movies of all time. Don’t miss it on the big screen!
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Werner Herzog’s only horror film, Nosferatu The Vampyre, is finally coming to The Frida Cinema!
It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is leaving on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski). The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the presence of a vampire. Even still, he doesn’t realize the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience.
A dreamlike homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic, Nosferatu The Vampyre conjures a world where dread seeps into every frame—an atmosphere of fevered melancholy now revived in a new 4K restoration thanks to our friends at American Genre Film Archive!
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“They’re back…and hungrier than ever.”
Experience George A. Romero’s legendary tale of flesh-eating terror like never before with the brand new Uncensored Cut of Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead (1990)! This chilling reimagining of Romero’s classic drags audiences into a relentless fight for survival where the dead refuse to stay buried, and trust is as fragile as the boarded-up walls of an abandoned farmhouse.
Making this event truly unmissable, actors Patricia Tallman, William Butler, and Heather Mazur will be appearing in person for an exclusive post-screening Q&A! After the discussion, the actors will be on hand to meet fans and sell autographs/memorabilia.
Patricia is offering an exclusive pre-order for her Hollywood memoir, Pleasure Thresholds, at a discounted rate. The purchase includes a personalized autograph following the screening! More details here: https://b5events.com/frida/
This program is a venue rental engagement. Member discounts and Frida Cinema comp passes not valid. 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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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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Just added: Writer/Director Joe Begos will be joining us for the 11PM Friday night screening of Jimmy & Stiggs!
Writer/Director Joe Begos (VFW, Bliss, Christmas Bloody Christmas) is back! And this time, he’s brought his A-game with a drug-fueled, wall-to-wall frenzy that pulls no punches from the moment it begins. Channeling the hectic, chaotic brilliance of Jackson, Raimi, and other masters, Begos infuses his own unique tone and craftsmanship into Jimmy & Stiggs!
A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy Lang (Joe Begos) spiraling into an out of control bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts his old friend Stiggs (Matt Mercer) to help him gear up for war. When the sun sets, the duo are thrown into a hallucinatory explosion of aliens, drugs, booze, and all out carnage.
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After a painful breakup, small-town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at Somnium–a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real.
Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling phenomena, and soon finds herself trapped in a nightmarish spiral as she discovers a darkness lurking within the clinic walls.
With its gripping storyline and striking cinematography, Somnium drags audiences through the horrifying consequences of tampering with the fabric of reality.
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Class is back in session with our Slash To School Double Feature, featuring two iconic slices of late-‘90s horror!
First period: The Faculty – Robert Rodriguez’s gooey, paranoid, totally underrated teen sci-fi-horror flick where the teachers are definitely not alright. When a group of misfit students suspects their school staff is being taken over by aliens, it’s up to them to stop the invasion before final bell. Featuring a killer cast (Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Famke Janssen, Jon Stewart, Selma Hayek, we could go on and on…), a peak-’90s soundtrack, and a whole lotta body horror.
Then: Scream 2 – Wes Craven’s bloodier, bolder, and arguably smarter sequel that dares to ask: what’s your favorite horror sequel? Sidney Prescott’s trying to start fresh in college, but Ghostface has other plans—and a new list of rules. Featuring one of the best opening scenes in horror history, a razor-sharp script from Kevin Williamson (who also wrote The Faculty), and more brutal kills, Scream 2 turns the slasher meta dial to eleven.
$15 gets you access you both films!
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You don’t have to go to another world to find terror. It’s already here. Our friends at See It On 16mm are unspooling Don Coscarelli’s cult classic Phantasm—a sci-fi-infused nightmare that defies logic and lingers long after the credits roll.
Released in 1979 and unlike anything else in the horror landscape, Phantasm follows two brothers grappling with death, loss, and something far stranger—an otherworldly mortician known only as the Tall Man (the iconic Angus Scrimm), who haunts their local cemetery with an army of hooded dwarves, chrome sentinel spheres, and inter-dimensional secrets that feel like a dream you can’t wake up from.
Phantasm is a low-budget cosmic horror fever dream filled with and a pervasive sense of dread that hits on an emotional frequency few horror films even attempt.
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