The Toxic Avenger is back—bigger, louder, and more radioactive than ever! This 2025 reboot brings the beloved Troma antihero into the modern era with a fresh dose of outrageous gore, dark humor, and socially charged mayhem!
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: The Toxic Avenger! Now wielding a glowing mop with super-human strength, he must race against time to save his son and stop a ruthless and power-hungry tyrant bent on harnessing toxic superpowers to strengthen his polluted empire.
Expect wild practical effects, outrageous action, and a satirical edge that’s as sharp as ever.
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On prom night, the world will know her name. Our friends at See It On 16mm are unspooling Brian De Palma’s 1976 masterpiece Carrie!
One of the most iconic and emotionally devastating horror films ever made—Carrie is a coming-of-age tragedy turned psychic revenge nightmare. Based on Stephen King’s debut novel, the film follows shy, repressed teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) as she navigates the cruelty of her peers, the torment of her religious zealot mother (a terrifying Piper Laurie), and the terrifying discovery of her own telekinetic powers.
With its split-screen fury, dreamlike slow-motion, and that unforgettable final shock, Carrie is both a high school horror story and a meditation on shame, isolation, and the explosive power of rage. Now…don’t be late. You have a date with Carrie!
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The curtain falls on our Dario Argento restrospective with a scream. For the final act, we present Opera—a film that distills all of the maestro’s obsessions into one glorious, nightmarish aria.
A young opera singer, thrust into the spotlight during a cursed production of Macbeth, finds herself stalked by a sadistic killer who forces her to watch as her friends die in increasingly elaborate set pieces. What follows is Argento’s most technically virtuosic and perversely beautiful film, where horror and high art bleed into one another—sometimes literally.
Featuring infamous sequences involving needles taped beneath the eyes, flocks of vengeful ravens, and a thunderous metal-infused score, Opera is both a love letter to cinema and a howl of rage from a filmmaker pushing the Giallo form to its breaking point. As the camera swoops, the bodies fall, and the aria rises, Opera reminds us: no one stages death like Dario Argento.
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The Black Gloves And Crimson Gloves series was created around the idea that director Dario Argento’s masterpiece, Deep Red, was turning a landmark 50 years old. But at Frida HQ, the secret reason for the celebratory retrospective was to showcase one of our favorite movies of all time, now celebrating its own 40th anniversary–Creepers!
Released in the U.S. as Creepers, this aggressively re-edited cut of the film Phenomena trims Argento’s operatic vision down to a leaner, grindhouse-ready form—but loses none of its mad brilliance. Jennifer Connelly plays a Swiss boarding school student with a psychic link to insects, who finds herself investigating a series of grisly murders alongside a wheelchair-bound entomologist (Donald Pleasence, plus a monkey sidekick). What unfolds is a delirious blend of supernatural horror, murder mystery, and coming-of-age nightmare. Oh, and did we mention the soundtrack? The most underrated Goblin score of all time, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Bill Wyman–just to name a few!
More streamlined but no less surreal, Creepers is a fractured mirror of Phenomena—a curiosity from the VHS era that still crawls under your skin. Kick off your Spooky Season the right way.
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Dario Argento returned to the giallo in 1982 with Tenebrae, his most brutal, self-reflexive, and psychologically unhinged film to date. An American crime novelist arrives in Rome to promote his latest book, only to find that someone is using his fiction as a blueprint for real murders. What follows is a labyrinth of voyeurism, doubles, obsession, and bloodletting—crafted with icy precision and wicked intelligence.
Featuring some of Argento’s most audacious set pieces (including the now-legendary crane shot over a building façade) and a pulsing electronic score by Goblin members under the name Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli, Tenebrae is a postmodern slasher steeped in chrome, glass, and guilt.
A strangely prophetic film in many ways, Tenebrae asks: when the line between creator and killer vanishes, who’s really holding the knife?
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Step into the flames. There’s beauty in terror. Following Suspiria, Dario Argento plunged even deeper into the occult with Inferno, the second chapter in his “Three Mothers” trilogy—a dreamlike, dread-soaked puzzle box where logic is irrelevant and atmosphere reigns.
When a young woman in New York uncovers an ancient book revealing the existence of a witch living in her apartment building, a cascade of nightmare imagery is unleashed: submerged ballrooms, baroque architecture, alchemical riddles, and firelight glimpses of death.
Less a sequel than a spiritual continuation, Inferno trades plot for poetry, building a haunted world that pulses with color, shadow, and decay. With music by Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and cinematography soaked in blues and reds, this is Argento at his most abstract and operatic.
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Do you know anything about witches? A technicolor nightmare bathed in neon light and scored to the pounding, otherworldly rhythms of Goblin, Dario Argento’s Suspiria is a singular, sensory assault and one of the most iconic horror films ever made.
Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and she sees Pat (Eva Axén), another student, fleeing from the school. What happens after that is a descent into colorful mystery madness that only Argento could deliver.
Released in 1977 and still unlike anything before or since, Suspiria is the film Argento will be remembered for: a Giallo that transcends the genre, dripping with dread, saturated in color, and terrifying in ways that defy logic. It’s horror as high art—and high art as hallucination. Don’t miss this certified Frida Cinema favorite loud and proud on the big screen where it belongs!
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The crown jewel of our Black Gloves & Crimson Blood restrospective celebrating the films of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento is his unforgettable masterpiece Deep Red, now celebrating 50 years since its release with a new restoration from our friends at the American Genre Film Archive!
Widely hailed as Dario Argento’s magnum opus, Deep Red (aka Profondo Rosso) is a baroque symphony of murder, madness, and visual excess. When a jazz pianist witnesses a brutal killing, he’s pulled into a spiral of hallucination, artifice, and buried trauma. What follows is Argento at the absolute height of his powers: roving Steadicam shots, feverish close-ups, Grand Guignol gore, and a legendary Goblin score that pulses like a racing heartbeat.
On its 50th anniversary, Deep Red returns to the screen in all its operatic, blood-soaked glory. Whether you’re seeing it for the first time or the fiftieth, this is the film that defines Argento with its formal audaciousness. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
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We’re cutting a little deeper with the second film in our Black Gloves & Crimson Blood series, straight into the subconscious of filmmaker Dario Argento with the nightmarish pairing of Four Flies On Grey Velvet and Door Into Darkness!
In Four Flies on Grey Velvet, the final entry in Argento’s “Animal Trilogy,” a rock drummer becomes ensnared in a blackmail plot that spirals into surreal paranoia and psychedelic dread. Rarely screened and long shrouded in cult mystique, it’s a slippery, dreamlike thriller featuring one of Argento’s most unforgettable death sequences.
Then: Door into Darkness, Argento’s rare foray into television. Acting as both host and creative force, he delivers a chilling episode that strips murder down to its most primal, procedural elements!
There will be a 15 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket purchase gets you access to both films.
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Our descent into the delirious world of Dario Argento begins with a blood-soaked one-two punch: his genre-defining debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and its twisted, paranoid follow-up The Cat O’ Nine Tails.
With Plumage, Argento burst onto the international stage, fusing Hitchcockian suspense with a bold visual style that would come to define the Giallo genre. It’s a razor-sharp thriller told through black leather gloves, shattered memories, and the killer’s point of view. Just a year later, The Cat O’ Nine Tails took the formula deeper into conspiracy and scientific obsession—doubling down on the tension, body count, and baroque atmosphere.
These are murder mysteries where the plot is secondary to sensation. Fear is a color, violence is choreography, and the camera is a voyeur. Don’t miss these two Italian horror classics on the big screen! There will be a 15 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket purchase gets you access to both films.
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