The curtain falls on our Dario Argento restrospective with a scream. For the final act, we present Opera—a film that distills all of the maestro’s obsessions into one glorious, nightmarish aria.
A young opera singer, thrust into the spotlight during a cursed production of Macbeth, finds herself stalked by a sadistic killer who forces her to watch as her friends die in increasingly elaborate set pieces. What follows is Argento’s most technically virtuosic and perversely beautiful film, where horror and high art bleed into one another—sometimes literally.
Featuring infamous sequences involving needles taped beneath the eyes, flocks of vengeful ravens, and a thunderous metal-infused score, Opera is both a love letter to cinema and a howl of rage from a filmmaker pushing the Giallo form to its breaking point. As the camera swoops, the bodies fall, and the aria rises, Opera reminds us: no one stages death like Dario Argento.
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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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Step into the flames. There’s beauty in terror. Following Suspiria, Dario Argento plunged even deeper into the occult with Inferno, the second chapter in his “Three Mothers” trilogy—a dreamlike, dread-soaked puzzle box where logic is irrelevant and atmosphere reigns.
When a young woman in New York uncovers an ancient book revealing the existence of a witch living in her apartment building, a cascade of nightmare imagery is unleashed: submerged ballrooms, baroque architecture, alchemical riddles, and firelight glimpses of death.
Less a sequel than a spiritual continuation, Inferno trades plot for poetry, building a haunted world that pulses with color, shadow, and decay. With music by Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and cinematography soaked in blues and reds, this is Argento at his most abstract and operatic.
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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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Our descent into the delirious world of Dario Argento begins with a blood-soaked one-two punch: his genre-defining debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and its twisted, paranoid follow-up The Cat O’ Nine Tails.
With Plumage, Argento burst onto the international stage, fusing Hitchcockian suspense with a bold visual style that would come to define the Giallo genre. It’s a razor-sharp thriller told through black leather gloves, shattered memories, and the killer’s point of view. Just a year later, The Cat O’ Nine Tails took the formula deeper into conspiracy and scientific obsession—doubling down on the tension, body count, and baroque atmosphere.
These are murder mysteries where the plot is secondary to sensation. Fear is a color, violence is choreography, and the camera is a voyeur. Don’t miss these two Italian horror classics on the big screen! There will be a 15 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket purchase gets you access to both films.
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Cloud, the stylish and subversive new thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) has finally arrived at The Frida Cinema!
The story follows Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, Yoshii gradually attempts to disconnect from humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and entrusting duties to his new, devoted assistant.
Before long his life is plagued by a series of mysterious, sinister incidents that threaten to upend his success and bring about a most violent demise. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
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Frida Cinema members are invited to a very special 30th anniversary screening of Claude Chabrol’s masterfully unsettling La Cérémonie, now restored in a beautiful 4K restoration via Janus Films!
Set in the quiet countryside of Brittany, the story follows a wealthy family who hires a new housekeeper, the enigmatic Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). When Sophie strikes up a friendship with the town’s outspoken postal clerk, Jeanne (the legendary Isabelle Huppert), the two women form a volatile bond that builds to an unforgettable and shocking conclusion. With chilling performances and an atmosphere thick with quiet menace, La Cérémonie is a slow-burn thriller that builds to a devastating crescendo.
Winner of the César Award for Best Actress and widely considered one of Chabrol’s finest films, La Cérémonie is a must-see for fans of dark psychological drama and French cinema at its most provocative.
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“Monsters are gathering. The Earth may not survive.” The Frida Cinema is teaming up with our friends at Creature Bazaar to bring you Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster! And make sure to get there early for a book signing with authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski and their new book Godzilla: The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History Of The Japanese Productions!
Released in 1964 and still crackling with cosmic weirdness, this fourth installment in the Showa-era Godzilla series doesn’t just raise the stakes—it tears a hole in the sky and sends a golden dragon through it. Enter: King Ghidorah—a planet-destroying, three-headed space hydra who crashes to Earth in a meteor and promptly starts leveling cities.
The only hope? An uneasy alliance between Earth’s three reigning monsters: the once-terrifying Godzilla, the majestic Mothra, and the elusive Rodan. Together, they’ll grumble, fight, and eventually team up in a monster mash for the ages!
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Super Yaki and Mise en Scènt are invading The Frida to celebrate the 25th anniversary of McG’s Charlie’s Angels with a totally free screening! Join us for exclusive merch, movie magic, and a brand-new scent drop!
Come for the slow-mo hair flips and killer soundtrack, stay for the giveaways, exclusive merch, and the in-person debut of our brand-new Concession Stand Candle 3-Pack. This 3-pack features scents inspired by our favorite cinematic snacks—popcorn, cherry slushy, and chocolate bar—and will be available exclusively at the screening, ahead of its online release. A portion of proceeds from this event (and the full week of programming) will go directly to our host theaters, in support of the independent venues that keep film culture thriving.
Saddle up, Angels—it’s time to celebrate 25 years of sexy struts, fierce female leads, and summertime moviegoing!
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