Friday Night Weird

TICKETS Oct 4 In a world in which no one speaks, a mysterious, devout community hunts down a young woman named Azrael (Samara Weaving) who has escaped their imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, she is to be sacrificed to pacify an evil which resides deep within the surrounding wilderness – but Azrael will stop […]

TICKETS Oct 11 Jordan Peele revitalized interest in the 2004 horror-comedy after hosting its New York premiere in 2023. A birthday party is not as it seems as Norman, played by Corey Feldman in an awe-inspiring performance, finds himself at a gathering of a doomsday cult preparing for the birth of their god. (Eugenio Mira, […]

TICKETS Oct 18 Flirting with the conventions of Blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African-American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his […]

TICKETS Oct 25 Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister "past her prime" and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by the repellent studio head (Dennis Quaid). She is drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she […]

TICKETS Nov 1 To accompany the documentary about Powell and Pressburger this week, FNW is showing Powell's iconic British psychological horror film. A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. Because of the controversial "snuff film" subject matter, this release nearly ruined Powell's career but has become […]

TICKETS Nov 8 Do you want to see the unseen? Dutch may look like just another defeated and washed-up loser, but behind his pissed-off exterior lurks a hyperdimensional being of exceptional promise. His wife left him, his career as a tennis coach is floundering, and he would give anything to find the driver of the […]

TICKETS Nov 15 Workaholic yuppie Conor Sweeney (star of “The Editor”, “Father’s Day”) has a dilemma: no one in his life respects him! Not his boss, not his coworkers, not even his wife Kristina, who thinks he’s an uptight “square”! Conor sees no way out of this existential rut until one night channel-surfing he catches […]

TICKETS Nov 22 A French journalist meets the iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí on several occasions for a documentary project that never came to be. The prolific Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy is an exercise in dream logic and surrealist homage, with the rug pulled out from under you again and again before you even manage […]