Friday Frights

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Recently:
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (2017) by S. Craig Zahler
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) by Wes Craven
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
(1965) by Mario Bava
MANDY (2018) by Panos Cosmatos
TAKE SHELTER (2011) by Jeff Nichols

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Friday Frights
Original English version

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Großer Saal € 12.50 Tickets
Director
William Castle
Cast
Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters, Lorna Hanson, Constance Cavendish, James Forrest
Plot Outline

A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote - via the "Punishment Poll" - for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...

 

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
S. Craig Zahler
Cast
Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Dion Mucciacito, Geno Segers, Mustafa Shakir, Marc Blucas, Tom Guiry
Plot Outline

After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Wes Craven
Cast
Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund, Charles Fleischer, Joseph Whipp
Plot Outline

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Mario Bava
Cast
Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda, Evi Marandi, Stelio Candelli, Franco Andrei, Fernando Villena, Mario Morales, Ivan Rassimov
Plot Outline

After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Coralie Fargeat
Cast
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède, Jean-Louis Tribes, Barbara Gateau
Plot Outline

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Panos Cosmatos
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouéré, Richard Brake, Bill Duke, Line Pillet, Clément Baronnet
Plot Outline

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Jeff Nichols
Cast
Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Robert Longstreet, Ray McKinnon, Kathy Baker, LisaGay Hamilton
Plot Outline

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Karyn Kusama
Cast
Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, Kyle Gallner, Chris Pratt, Cynthia Stevenson
Plot Outline

Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Frank Darabont
Cast
Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sam Witwer, Chris Owen
Plot Outline

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Jonathan Glazer
Cast
Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell, Kevin McAlinden, D. Meade, Andrew Gorman, Joe Szula, Kryštof Hádek
Plot Outline

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Oz Perkins
Cast
Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar, Lauren Holly, Peter J. Gray
Plot Outline

Two young students at a prestigious prep school for girls are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they are stranded at the school over winter break.

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Friday Frights
Original version with subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Tomas Alfredson
Cast
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahm, Karl-Robert Lindgren
Plot Outline

Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.

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Friday Frights
Original French/English version with German subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Claire Denis
Cast
Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Hélène Lapiower
Plot Outline

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane’s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Neil Marshall
Cast
Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, MyAnna Buring, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, Leslie Simpson, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll
Plot Outline

After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Sean S. Cunningham
Cast
Jeannine Taylor, Laurie Bartram, Harry Crosby, Robbi Morgan, Adrienne King, Mark Nelson, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Mary Rocco
Plot Outline

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Steve Miner
Cast
Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey
Plot Outline

Five years after the events of the first film, a summer camp next to the infamous Camp Crystal Lake is preparing to open, but the legend of Jason is weighing heavy on the proceedings.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
David Robert Mitchell
Cast
Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Bailey Spry, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass
Plot Outline

When carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her older boyfriend for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her defend herself.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Tobe Hooper
Cast
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen, John Dugan
Plot Outline

When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

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Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Ti West
Cast
Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure
Plot Outline
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Ari Aster
Cast
Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Mallory Bechtel, Brock McKinney, Jake Brown, Morgan Lund
Plot Outline

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

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Friday Frights
Original English version (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, John Houseman, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes
Plot Outline

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone (Hal Holbrook) stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Friday Frights
Original version with English subtitles (no more shows planned at the moment)
Director
Anita Rocha da Silveira
Cast
Mari Oliveira, Lara Tremouroux, Bruna Linzmeyer, Thiago Fragoso, Felipe Frazão, Joana Medeiros, Bruna G, Carol Romano, João Vithor Oliveira
Plot Outline

By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.