Your luck just ran out.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s day at The Frida Cinema with a special screening of Leprechaun, presented by our friends at Nostalgic Nebula! Arrive early for a retrospective pre-show video, Leprechaun trivia with prizes, a spooky photo op, chocolate gold coins! But beware of the Leprechaun…try as you may, try as you might, who steals his gold won’t live through the night!
As a special treat, there will be a tele-Q&A with actor Mark Holton at the start of the show, so prep those Leprechaun questions!
Dan O’Grady (Shay Duffin) steals 100 gold coins from a leprechaun (Warwick Davis) while on vacation in Ireland. The leprechaun follows him home, but Dan locks him in a crate, held at bay by a four-leaf clover. Ten years later, J.D. Redding (John Sanderford) and his daughter, Tory (Jennifer Aniston), rent O’Grady’s property for the summer. When their new neighbors accidentally release the leprechaun, he goes on a murderous rampage to reclaim his gold.
Doors open and pre-show begins at 7:15PM! Movie and Q&A starts at 7:30PM!
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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Only monsters play God.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, the movie he was born to make, is finally coming alive at The Frida Cinema starting on February 27th!
The story follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist (played by Oscar Isaac) who brings a monstrous creature to life in a daring experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
The film has now received 9 Academy Award nominations for the 98th Academy Awards (2026), including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi’s transformative performance as The Monster. The film also scored major technical nominations for cinematography, original score, costume design, makeup/hairstyling, production design, and sound.
Thank you to Netflix for allowing us to play this gorgeous creation where it belongs to be seen: on the big screen.
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Our Hallucinations series heads to the seaside one final time (for this sub-series, at least) for director Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Shout!
Adapted from Robert Graves’ short story, The Shout follows a mysterious traveler, Crossley, who takes advantage of a young couple’s hospitality. Claiming to have learned an Aboriginal ‘terror shout,’ Crossley threatens the couple’s safety and sanity.
Skolimowski’s film is dreamlike and disorienting, playing out like a hallucination (see what we did there?). It’s not a conventional horror movie by any means, using fractured timelines and the barren English coastal to slowly create an existential nightmare.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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Our seaside horror Hallucinations mini series continues with a brand new 4K restoration of the 1961 gem Night Tide!
Night Tide presents a world in which undefined realms float around, blurring boundaries between reality and fantasy. Dennis Hopper is profoundly charming in his portrayal of Johnny, a young sailor who is spellbound by Mora, an enigmatic woman who performs as a mermaid at the Santa Monica Pier carnival.
Set near the water in Santa Monica and Venice Beach, Night Tide dives into the purgatory domain of dreamy love, which is cursed by doomed imagination, like a beautiful nightmare underwater.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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Echoing everything from Herk Harvey’s Carnival Of Souls to Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby…Kill!, Messiah Of Evil is a swirling vortex of Lovecraftian terror and grisly bloodshed from the team who’d later go on to make Howard The Duck! That perfect storm of madness makes it a perfect entry into our Hallucinations series!
After receiving a string of unsettling letters from her father, Arletty arrives in a sleepy California coastal town called Point Dune. Dad is nowhere to be seen. Instead, Arletty finds a town full of drugged-out burnouts, barren shopping centers, and…something else.
Marianna Hill (High Plains Drifter), Michael Greer (Fortune And Men’s Eyes), and Elisha Cook Jr. (The Maltese Falcon) star in this unjustly overlooked major work of independent American horror that’s primed for (re)discovery.
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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Our Hallucinations series kicks off its four film sub-series of Seaside Horror with the 1981 shocker Dead & Buried!
The story follows a small town sheriff (James Farentino from The Final Countdown) who is baffled by a sudden series of grisly murders. A familiar plot to some, but director Gary Sherman ups the creepiness factor with a spooky setting and uniquely morbid sense of humor.
Unfairly ignored during its original theatrical release, Dead & Buried is one of those movies that was lucky enough to find a second life in the home-video market and is now considered a cult classic. Nearly forty years later, Blue Underground has released a brand new 4K restoration for us to enjoy on the big screen!
Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
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In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, filammaker Michael Almereyda recombined characters from Bram Stoker and set them loose in contemporary New York. The result? A cult classic known simply as Nadja.
Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) is a disillusioned “young” vampire who imagines herself liberated by the death of her father, Count Dracula, but the unhinged Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda) wants to destroy her as well, interrupting her reunion with twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) and pursuing them into “a netherworld of shadows” (J. Hoberman).
Part seductive reverie, part spoof, Nadja is a delirious mashup of Andre Breton’s 1928 surrealist novel of the same name and Universal Pictures’ Dracula’s Daughter (1936). Simon Fisher Turner’s ethereal score is offset by propulsive pop songs from My Bloody Valentine, The Verve, and Space Hog.
Executive producer Lynch fully financed the film when other investors faded out and even has a cameo as a hypnotized morgue attendant. This 4K restoration was generated from the print in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the version of the film that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1994, three minutes longer than the commercial release.
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Evil takes many forms.
Play It By Fear (@playitbyfear.33) continues their brand new Sunday Scaries series by delving into the dark world of Robert Eggers’ 2016 New England nightmare The VVitch.
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Never too far from our programming line, The VVitch has stood the test of time over the past ten years, forever changing the landscape of Indie Horror as we know it.
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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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