We’re very excited to announce that Rialto Pictures is rolling out their brand new 4K restoration of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder for a limited run at The Frida Cinema on October 20th-23rd!
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War veteran plagued with troubling hallucinations and traumatic flashbacks, struggles to maintain his sanity as his terrible past invades his waking life. As girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peña) and chiropractor friend Louis (Danny Aiello) try to help him find balance, Jacob only descends further into madness and despair.
This restoration was completed by ROUNDABOUT – USA from the original negative scanned and restored in 4K. The color grading and restoration was supervised by Adrian Lyne. This project was brought to you by STUDIOCANAL and supervised by Delphine Roussel and Jean-Pierre Boiget.
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A total hoot for Italian horror novices and superfans alike, The Frida Cinema is jazzed to present Lucio Fulci’s Murder-Rock: Dancing Death!
Nothing is as it seems in this foggy ‘80s world of whiny dance students, backbiting school staff, puzzled cops, handsome strangers, surreal dream sequences, gruesome kills, naughty eroticism and spiraling labyrinthine mystery. Who will live to dance another day?!?!
One of the final horror gems in Fulci’s vast, sleazy filmography (Zombie, The Beyond), Murder-Rock blends Flashdance tropes, upbeat Eurodisco nonsense (courtesy of prog rocker Keith Emerson) and black-gloved slasher thrills into a lavish satisfying stew.
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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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Wake up, Donnie…
Donnie Darko, one of the definitive Frida Cinema fan favorites, is coming back for a very special one night only screening on August 22nd at 11:00PM!
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a troubled teenager in 1988 Virginia, plagued by visions and sleepwalking episodes. One night, a bizarre accident nearly kills him when a jet engine crashes into his bedroom. Surviving only because he wandered outside, Donnie begins seeing a terrifying figure: a man in a grotesque rabbit suit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days.
Before Stranger Things combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium.
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We’re bringing back an encore of David Fincher’s murder masterpiece Se7en, celebrating thirty years since its initial release with a brand new 4K restoration courtesy of Warner Brothers!
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset (Morgan Freeman) researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer’s mind, while his novice partner, Mills (Brad Pitt), scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
Oft imitated but never replicated, Se7en stands as one of the greatest (and darkest) thrillers of all time.
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Volunteer of the Month pick, selected by this month’s VOTM — The Amazing Dana!
From director Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still) comes the first big-screen voyage of one of television’s most iconic crews.
When a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as V’Ger threatens Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) takes command of the newly refitted U.S.S. Enterprise. Reuniting with Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the rest of the legendary crew, Kirk must lead his starship on a perilous mission into uncharted space that will test the limits of their loyalty, their skills, and their very understanding of what it means to be alive.
Featuring eye-popping art direction, groundbreaking visual effects, and a legendary score by Jerry Goldsmith – all of which were nominated for Academy Awards – Star Trek: The Motion Picture will be presented on Paramount Pictures’ striking new 4K Restoration.
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Our Classic Movie Nights series is finally making its way to one of the greatest achievements in cinema history—Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ groundbreaking debut that changed the language of film forever.
Equal parts mystery and character study, Citizen Kane isn’t just the story of a man—it’s the story of America told through the rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose final word sends a reporter on a labyrinthine quest for meaning. Welles directs, co-writes, and stars in this epic of fractured memories, unreliable narrators, and stone cold cinematography that still feels audacious over 80 years later. We know you’ve been told to watch this film your whole life, that it’s “the greatest movie ever made”, and so many other things, but trust us: this is a film best experienced on the big screen.
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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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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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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