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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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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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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Before The Matrix, before Westworld—there was Ghost in the Shell. Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 cyberpunk landmark returns to the big screen for its 30th anniversary: a hypnotic, high-tech meditation on what it means to be alive in a world where the line between human and machine has all but vanished.
Set in a dystopian future where cybernetic enhancements are the norm and the human mind can be hacked, Ghost in the Shell follows Major Motoko Kusanagi—a special-ops agent in a synthetic body—on a mission to track a mysterious hacker known only as the Puppet Master. But as the investigation deepens, so does the existential dread: Where does the “self” reside when your body is hardware, your memories are code, and your soul—your ghost—is possibly just another program?
Blending hauntingly beautiful hand-drawn animation with early digital effects, Oshii’s vision is erily prescient. It’s a genre-defining anime that helped lay the groundwork for modern sci-fi as we know it.
These screenings will be presented in the film’s original Japanese language with English subtitles.
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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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You asked. You manifested it. Only you are to blame. Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales is coming back for a one-night-only descent into madness, messiah complexes, and post-apocalyptic SoCal chaos as part of our In Defense Of…series courtesy of our founder and Executive Director Logan Crow! And as a fun bonus, we are screening the rarely-seen Cannes Cut of the film!
A delirious, genre-melting fever dream from the director of Donnie Darko, this sci-fi satire is part dystopian epic, part musical, part political prophecy—and 100% unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Set in a fractured near-future America (or was it 2008?), the film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a paranoid action star with amnesia, Sarah Michelle Gellar as a porn star turned media mogul, and Seann William Scott as…twins?
Infamously booed at Cannes and boasting a cool 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, Southland Tales has since earned a devoted cult following for its audacity, ambition, and total refusal to color inside the lines. Love it, hate it, or leave the theater slightly altered—this is a film that demands to be experienced loud, big, and with other humans asking, “Wait, was that Justin Timberlake lip-syncing The Killers?”
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Sorry in advance. October’s Hallucinations screening is Frank Henenlotter’s uproarious gross-out horror Frankenhooker!
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée meets an unfortunate end via runaway lawnmower, his grief drives him to an entirely reasonable conclusion: build her a new body from the “best parts” of New York’s sex workers. Enter lightning, purple potions, and more bad decisions than humanly possible. It’s cartoon slapstick meets a morally questionable science fair.
If mad science is an art form, this is its neon masterpiece.
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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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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You’re not supposed to understand it. You’re supposed to feel it. Our Hallucinations series is taking a trip into the Funky Forest, ya’ll!
Welcome to Funky Forest, where plot is optional, logic is irrelevant, and the only rule is: the weirder, the better. A cult favorite of Japan’s experimental film scene, Funky Forest is a sprawling, head-scratching sketch anthology that careens between deadpan comedy, body horror, cosmic nonsense, musical interludes, and pure dream logic. With dozens of characters—like the Guitar Brothers, a dancing colon, and a mysterious alien transmission—it’s a film that feels beamed in from another dimension.
Part Monty Python, part Eraserhead, part pure chaos—it’s not a movie you watch so much as survive.
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