“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.
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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Greenwhich Entertainment’s newest release, Went Up The Hill, is coming to The Frida Cinema!
In this chilling ghost story, a recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack (Dacre Montgomery of Stranger Things) and her grieving widow Jill (Vicky Krieps of Phantom Thread and Corsage). When the woman’s spirit inhabits the survivors, the living must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.
Went Up The Hill debuted earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Join us for a night of chilling camp, psychological suspense, and Old Hollywood fireworks as our Classic Movie Nights series delves into the deranged world of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford—two screen legends whose off-screen rivalry was just as infamous as their on-screen performances (but we’ll let Bekah really fill you on the details here)—square off in this deliciously macabre tale of faded fame. Davis is unforgettable (and unhinged) as Baby Jane Hudson, a former child star rotting in her own delusions, while Crawford brings heartbreaking restraint as Blanche, her wheelchair-bound sister, trapped with a woman teetering between guilt and madness.
A cult classic of high-wire hysteria from director Robert Aldrich, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? paved the way for “psycho-biddy” cinema and gave aging actresses roles they could sink their teeth into—sometimes literally.
Make sure to get to the screening early, as our Marketing Director Bekah will be doing a very informative and entertaining presentation on the film before it starts!
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Good Boy, the buzzy new horror film told from the perspective of a dog, finally scampers its way to The Frida!
A loyal dog (played by dog actor Indy, the director’s real life pet) moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
Premiering at this year’s South By Southwest, the film’s trailer gathered one million views in just its first four days, with its global interest only further piqued by its current 95% Rotten Tomatoes rating! Catch it on the big screen at The Frida!
The Frida will be donating a portion of ticket proceeds from our Thursday, October 2nd screening of Good Boy to OC Animal Allies! OC Animal Allies is a nonprofit organization founded with the mission to save animal lives and strengthen the human-animal bond in Orange County by providing emergency financial support, education, referral services, and therapy programs.
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Our December edition of Hallucinations is the Christmas classic Dial Code Santa Claus aka Deadly Games aka 3615 code Père Noël aka Hide and Freak.
Before Home Alone… there was Dial Code Santa Claus, a French holiday thriller where a tech-savvy kid must defend his mansion from a psychotic man in a Santa suit. What starts as whimsical turns tense, then brutal, then full-on survival horror—all under twinkling lights and fake snow. It’s a fairy tale slasher mixed with a hyperactive 80s toy commercial from hell.
’Tis the season for tinsel, trauma, and booby traps.
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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