FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 | A beautiful cheerleader (Megan Fox) gains an insatiable appetite for human flesh after a hungry demon takes control of her body. 16 years after its disastrous debut, Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s satirical story of friendship and bloody revenge has found unexpected cult following and critical reevaluation.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 | A campy teen drama with peak 90s vibes starring Robin Tonney and Fairuza Balk. After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Robin Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches whose desire for power leads to dangerous consequences.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 | When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broad­­cast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” His attempts to unearth the program’s origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sado­masochistic sex games, and bodily trans­formation. Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry, VIDEODROME is one of the most original and provocative works from writer-director David Cronenberg, and features ground­breaking makeup effects by Academy Award winner Rick Baker. ~Criterion

SHOWING OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 6 | In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 | Virtually absent from theater screens since the 1990s, this underground classic from Japan returns in a brand new restoration! TETSUO: THE IRON MAN is filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s unhinged hot take on humankind’s ongoing battle with technology; literally, as a man mutates into a walking, clanking man-machine that terrorizes himself and everyone around him. Warping elements of early Cronenberg, Lynch, and Raimi into a deliriously-paced cyberpunk cocktail, TETSUO is a body horror manifesto that’s fueled by techno-erotic adrenaline and wrought iron perversion. ** Viewer discretion advised for severe violence, nudity, and disturbing images

SHOWING OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 6 | On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING SUNDAY OCTOBER 26 | Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis star in Robert Zemeckis’ outrageously entertaining black comedy about greed, vanity, sex and immortality. When a fading actress learns of a potion that grants eternal life and beauty, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 | Celebrated for Lon Chaney’s iconic performance, groundbreaking makeup, and emotional depth, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA’s story of murder, mayhem, and obsession in a Paris opera house still thrills after 100 years. Screened with live musical accompaniment by The Anvil Orchestra.

FRIGHT FEST 2025 ~ SHOWING FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 | Summoned to a bloodthirsty vampire’s faraway castle, a young land clerk embarks on a harrowing journey into the unknown as his innocent wife falls under the spell of a terrifying shadow in her dreams. One of the silent era’s most influential masterpieces, NISFERATU’s eerie, gothic feel — and a chilling performance from Max Schreck — set the template for the horror movie genre. Shown with live musical accompaniment by The Anvil Orchestra.

SHOWING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in this unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.

SHOWING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 | With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

SHOWING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.