Horror Movie Night is BACK at The Frida Cinema for 2023. This year we have env more screenings for you to enjoy! What’s more, two of them are spectacular double features! That’s right Join us again for a full night of horror movie fun as we present the Horror Movie Night Video Pre-show, A themed specialty drink at the concession stand, Dum Dums, a special surprise short film from the Midsummer Scream SCREAMING ROOM Film Festival, a fabulous game to compete for the Pumpkin Prize Pack, and of course, the frightful features! Join us at The Frida Cinema for a celebration of horror and the horror community. Join us for Horror Movie Night 2023!

Horror Movie Night at The Frida Cinema 2023 Trailer

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FEB 25. BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA

Bram Stoker's Dracula

The gloriously overblown Francis Ford Coppola adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel comes to life with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Gary Oldman turns in a fiendishly sinister Dracula whose lonely soul is determined to reunite with his lost love, Mina (Winona Ryder). Sadly poor businessman Jonathan Harker’s fiancee is the spitting image of Mina and Dracula begins a reign of terror and seduction in pursuit of his lost love.

Featuring a delicious performance from Oldman as Dracula, a bombastic turn from Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, and academy awards for Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Production Design, Bram Stoker’s Dracula elevates the source material to operatic heights, proving that love never dies.”

 

 

APRIL 29 DOUBLE FEATURE – PSYCHO II (40th Anniversary) & MOTEL HELL

Psycho II and Motel Hell Double Feature

PSYCHO II

Two decades after the original murders at the Bates Motel, Norman cannot keep “Mother” from returning and coaxing him to unleash the homicidal maniac within.

MOTEL HELL

Vincent Smith (Rory Calhoun) and his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) run a rural hotel, but they earn most of their cash operating a food stand that specializes in world-famous sausages. Care to take a bite?

 

 

June 24th – VIDEODROME (40th Anniversary, 4k Director’s Cut)

Videodrome

Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. He happens upon a new “Videodrome,” that features gratuitous torture and punishment. Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. After his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome.

With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome is an influential piece of horror that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

 

 

August 26th DOUBLE FEATURE – CUJO (40th Anniversary) & CHRISTINE (40th Anniversary)

Cujo and Christine

Cujo

Cujo Man’s best friend turns into his worst enemy when sweet St. Bernard Cujo is bitten by a bat. As Cujo morphs into a dangerous rabies-ridden beast, Donna (Dee Wallace) gets caught in Cujo’s crosshairs on a fateful errand with her son, Tad (Danny Pintauro).

Christine

The tale of Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) and his 1958 Plymouth Fury Christine. A strange vehicular obsession accelerates to a murderous rampage as Arnie’s jock friend, Dennis (John Stockwell) and Arnie’s girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.

 

 

OCT 28th – THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

The Return of the Living Dead

Foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse and the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. The epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways.

A loose sequel to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living DeadThe Return of the Living Dead is a campy, punk-inflected twist on the zombie film.

 

 

DEC 16th, – CHILD’S PLAY (35th Anniversary)

 

Child's Play

Dying murderer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) uses black magic to put his soul inside a doll named Chucky — which Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) buys for her young son, Andy (Alex Vincent). When Chucky kills Andy’s baby sitter. Karen then tries to convince detectives of the murderous doll’s intentions, before Andy becomes Chucky’s next victim.

The first entry in a long-running franchise, Child’s Play is playing in celebration of its 35th anniversary.

 


 

A full night of entertainment begins as the doors open 30 minutes before showtime. While you wait for the film to start be prepared for The HMN Video Pre-show, a bonkers, collection of absurdity that will assault the senses with sights and sounds hitherto unseen anywhere. Each pre-show is unique to every screening and you never know what will show up next. If you are in the theater at the right moment, you may catch PRIZE TIME where prizes are given to the biggest horror freaks.

The lights go down and it’s SHOWTIME at 8:00pm. Guests are then invited to compete for fabulous swag and prizes. Or, if you are shy you can just watch.

The fun continues with a specially curated short selected from the Midsummer Scream Screaming Room Film Festival to accompany the film.

Then it is time for the Feature Presentation and the screams.  Join us this year at The Frida Cinema.

About the Author

Norman Gidney is a nearly lifelong horror fan. Beginning his love for the scare at the age of 5 by watching John Carpenter's Halloween, he set out on a quest to share his passion for all things spooky with the rest of the world.