Are you ready to make television history?
The Frida Cinema is bringing in a limited run of Primetime, the fascinating new docudrama from director Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers.
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.
About as provocative as mainstream art house thriller can get, Primetime is an electric and audacious entry into the A24 canon filled to the brim with with brilliant performances.
Enhanced Accessibility Options: this film has Closed Captioning, Assisted Listening, and Audio Description capability!
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Just added: Pain in the Neck stars Lauren Payton and Alyssa Eells will be joining us in-person to host our Sapphic Vampire Double Feature!
We’re giving you a double dose of lesbian vampire cinema with our Daughters of Darkness + The Vampire Lovers showcase!
First, travel to a secluded Belgian hotel for Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness (1971), where newlyweds Stefan and Valerie encounter the mysterious Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig) and her beautiful companion Ilona. What begins as an uneasy encounter soon becomes a decadent nightmare with all kinds of twist and turns. And then, after a 10 minute intermission…
Sink your teeth into Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers (1970), Roy Ward Baker’s lush adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. Ingrid Pitt stars as the seductive and deadly Carmilla, who sets her sights on a succession of young women, including the innocent Emma Morton (Madeline Smith), in one of Hammer’s most unabashedly sensual horror films.
About Pain in the Neck: After the apocalypse hits Hollywood, Ruby’s acting career is dead, her landlord’s a chatty zombie, and her roommate, Helena, is a vampire that drinks her blood in exchange for protection. As the two big personalities clash, Ruby and Helena struggle through self-tapes, jealousy, and sharing a bedroom. Ruby and Helena’s arrangement should be simple– it shouldn’t involve falling in love. (Spoiler: none of the gay characters die, because one of them is already undead.)
Pain in the Neck is an 8-episode series that premiered on 9/17 on YouTube @ButterflyAndBat.TV, with weekly episodes leading up to Halloween!
One ticket gets you access to both films. There will be a ten minute intermission. Frida Cinema discounts and comp passes DO apply!
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The walls are closing in with Ghost in the Cell, the wild new Indonesian horror film from acclaimed filmmaker Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, Impetigore)!
Inside a brutal high-security prison ruled by rival gangs and corrupt guards, a series of gruesome murders begins leaving inmates dead in increasingly horrific…and impossible…ways. When it becomes clear that an invisible supernatural force is stalking the prison, enemies are forced to put aside their differences and work together to figure out what is killing them before they’re next.
Mixing supernatural horror with prison drama and adding in absolutely outrageous gore, Ghost in the Cell is the latest genre free-for-all from one of Indonesia’s most exciting filmmakers.
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Every neighborhood has its secrets…
See It On 16mm is back to unspool a late-October screening of the 1989 Tom Hanks horror comedy The ‘Burbs!
Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) just wants to enjoy a quiet week at home. Unfortunately, the new neighbors at the end of the cul-de-sac are acting… strange. Really strange. When Ray and his fellow neighborhood busybodies begin investigating the mysterious Klopeks, their suburban snooping quickly spirals into a full-blown conspiracy—and maybe something much darker.
Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs is a pitch-perfect collision of suburban comedy and horror, turning the American dream of the perfect neighborhood into a paranoid nightmare. With Tom Hanks at his gleefully neurotic best, plus Carrie Fisher, Bruce Dern, Corey Feldman, and Henry Gibson, the film skewers nosy neighbors, backyard boredom, and the terrifying possibility that the people living next door might actually be monsters.
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Our Heist Hallucinations series is pulling off its final score of the year with Steve McQueen’s 2018 thriller Widows!
When a botched heist leaves four women widowed and drowning in debt, Veronica Rawlings (Viola Davis) discovers that her late husband left behind a plan for one final job. With nothing left to lose, she recruits Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) to finish the job…and settle a few scores of their own.
Based on the British television series and co-written by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), McQueen’s film is a sleek, bruising reinvention of the heist movie, using the mechanics of a robbery to explore ghe women left behind by a criminal world built for men. And the cast is stacked: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, and Robert Duvall.
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Yes…or yes?
Our Heist Hallucinations series is going back to the criminal underworld with Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 cult classic Sexy Beast!
Retired safecracker Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) is enjoying a quiet life in Spain when a visit from his old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) threatens to drag him back into the business. Logan has one last job in mind…a daring safe deposit heist in London. Oh, and he’s not taking “no” for an answer. What follows is an unhinged descent into the criminal underworld unlike any other crime film you’ve ever seen.
Glazer’s electrifying debut balances a meticulously-planned heist with a psychological showdown between two unforgettable characters. And then there’s Ben Kingsley, giving one of the great left-field performances of his career as the absolutely terrifying Don Logan. Add in Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, and a script that crackles with menace, and Sexy Beast is one hell of a way to get your heist on.
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Celebrate 50 years of the Antichrist at The Frida as we present the original The Omen as part of our Art House of Horror: Presented by MUBI series!
When American diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) and his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) welcome their new son Damien, they believe their prayers for a child have finally been answered. But as a series of increasingly horrifying deaths surrounds the family, Robert begins to uncover a terrifying possibility: Damien may not be the child they thought he was.
Richard Donner’s supernatural horror classic turns a seemingly perfect family into the center of an apocalyptic nightmare, elevated by Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-winning score, an unforgettable performance by Peck, and some of the most infamous death scenes in horror history. A massive box-office success that spawned sequels, a remake, and decades of imitators, The Omen remains one of the defining horror films of the 1970s.
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You can’t keep a bad girl down!
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is the next film up in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by Mubi series!
A rip-roaring sequel-in-name-only to the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher from 1980, this film delivers the goods in both the kills and teenage angst departments. Here, a ‘50s prom queen is sautéed alive in a school fire, and her horny, vengeful ghost pops up in the ‘80s to slice-’n-dice the Breakfast Club.
Featuring the iconic Michael Ironside as a high school principal and death via Apple II computers, this underrated slasher is a perfectly paced melding of Carrie, A Nigthmare on Elm Street, and Sam Raimi!
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The first film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series for October is the 1968 chilling masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby!
Newlyweds Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into a beautiful New York City apartment, where their new neighbors, the overly friendly Roman and Minnie Castevet, take an unusual interest in the young couple. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her excitement quickly gives way to suspicion as strange occurrences, unsettling dreams, and sinister secrets begin to close in around her.
This landmark Horror classic transformed the ordinary anxieties of pregnancy and domestic life into something truly terrifying that has echoed on in the world of cinema for almost 60 years. Farrow’s unforgettable performance lends a brilliantly oppressive sense of paranoia, making the movie truly unforgettable all these years later.
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Just added: film critic and author Alonso Duralde will be joining us for the 8:00PM screening on November 9th to introduce the film and sign copies of his book Hollywood Pride!
Few filmmakers have embraced queer desire with as much style, humor, and glorious melodrama as Pedro Almodóvar. So of course we had to include his work in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series! We’ve played the hits before, so now we’re diving headfirst into one of his earliest and most deliriously queer films: Law of Desire.
Pablo Quintero is a successful filmmaker whose latest movie has just premiered to acclaim, but his personal life is considerably less orderly. His former lover has disappeared from his life, his trans sister Tina is dealing with her own complicated romantic history, and a handsome young admirer named Antonio has become dangerously obsessed with him. When Pablo rejects Antonio’s advances, desire quickly curdles into jealousy…and so much more.
Made just a few years after Spain emerged from Franco’s dictatorship, Law of Desire finds Almodóvar throwing open the doors to a world of queer sexuality, gender fluidity, artistic ambition, and unapologetic excess. Anchored by unforgettable performances from Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas, the film is a feverishly funny and dare we say…very sexy. Don’t miss your chance to see it on the big screen!
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