ROSS FRIGHT FEST
The third annual Ross Fright Fest returns in October with a month of horror films on the big screen and two live performances by The Anvil Orchestra!
TICKET INFO
FRIGHT FEST: $8 General Admission | $5 Members & UNL students
ANVIL ORCHESTRA: $35 General Admission | $30 Seniors & Military | $20 Members | $5 UNL students
THE ANVIL ORCHESTRA
accompanying PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)
Thursday, October 30 – 7:30 p.m.
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.
Directed by Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, and Ernst Laemmle
Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Norman Kerry
THE ANVIL ORCHESTRA (1922)
accompanying NOSFERATU
Friday, October 31 – 7:30 p.m.
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, NOSFERATU’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.
Directed by F. W. Murnau
Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, and Gustav von Wangenheim
PAST SCREENINGS
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
Thursday, October 2 – 6:15 p.m.
Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein inherits the castle of his notorious grandfather and begins to recreate his ancestor’s experiments in Mel Brooks’ comedy masterpiece.
Directed by Mel Brooks
Rated PG for suggestive humor, language, and comedy violence
Run Time: 1 hour, 46 minutes
Starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Cloris Leachman, and Teri Garr
EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN (1987)
Thursday, October 2 – 8:30 p.m.
After playing a recording of the Book of the Dead found in a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods and unleashing an evil force that possesses his girlfriend, Ash (Bruce Campbell) is forced into a macabre battle for his life in Sam Raimi’s classic horror-comedy.
Directed by Sam Raimi
Rated R for violence, gore, and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 24 minutes
Starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Kicks, and Ted Raimi
**Photosensitivity Notice: EVIL DEAD 2 contains sequences with flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992)
Friday, October 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning adaptation of the classic Dracula legend. In BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, a centuries-old vampire begins a reign of bloody terror when he travels to London searching for the reincarnation his lost love.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rated R for sexuality, violence, and gore
Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, and Tom Waits
THE LOST BOYS (1987)
Friday, October 3 – 9:15 p.m.
Joel Schumacher’s campy teen vampire thriller blends horror, humor, and plenty of 80s style. When a recently divorced mother and her two teenage sons move to a coastal town, it doesn’t take long for the brothers to realize the area is a haven for something much more sinister than party-going surfers.
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Rated R for violence and gore
Run Time: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, and Alex Winter
THE EXORCIST (1973)
Sunday, October 5 – 7:15 p.m.
One of the scariest and most successful horror films of all time, William Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST follows two priests who are drawn into a vicious battle of good versus evil to save the life of a possessed 12-year-old girl (Linda Blair).
Directed by William Friedkin
Rated R strong language, violence, and disturbing images
Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb, and Jason Miller
TENEBRAE (1982)
Friday, October 10 – 7:00 p.m.
After the supernatural one-two punch of SUSPIRIA and INFERNO, Dario Argento went back to basics with TENEBRAE—a brilliant Giallo and one of the filmmaker’s most assured achievements. The story follows a famous horror novelist who, while promoting his latest book in Rome, finds himself at odds with a black-gloved lunatic on a mutilation spree.
Directed by Dario Argento
Rated R for violence, gore, and nudity
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes
Starring Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Veronica Lario, and Christian Borromeo
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Friday, October 10 – 9:15 p.m.
Brian De Palma’s subversive and absurd horror/comedy/rock opera is the epitome of a cult classic. Featuring music by the legendary Paul Williams, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is the Faustian story of a gifted rock composer (William Finley) who plots revenge after a devious record producer (Williams) steals his music and the woman he loves.
Directed by Brian De Palma
Suggested Rating PG-13 for some sexual content, stylized violence and gore, language, and drug use
Run Time: 1 hour, 31 minutes
Starring Paul Williams, William Finley, and Jessica Harper
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
Saturday, October 11 – 6:50 p.m.
*4K Restoration* This dazzling, whip-smart remake of the 1956 spine-tingler stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy in an eerie tale of possession by alien pod-people.
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Rated PG for nudity, violence, gore, and frightening scenes
Run Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Starring Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy, and Brooke Adams
US (2019)
Saturday, October 11 – 9:15 p.m.
Jordan Peele follows his acclaimed GET OUT with this surreal and chilling story of a family terrorized by their nightmarish doppelgängers.
Directed by Jordan Peele
Rated R for violence, language, and frightening/intense scenes
Run Time: 1 hour, 56 minutes
Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss
SCREAM (1996)
Wednesday, October 15 – 7:15 p.m.
STUDENT NIGHT VIEWER’S CHOICE WINNER! Suburban teens are menaced by a knife wielding maniac with a love of scary movies in horror icon Wes Craven’s sly, witty, and surprisingly effective deconstruction of the slasher genre. $1.00 student tickets available at the Ross Box Office (not available online).
Directed by Wes Craven
Rated R for strong graphic horror violence and gore, and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 51 minutes
Starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Davi Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, and Live Schreiber
ALIEN (1979)
Friday, October 17 – 6:45 p.m.
In Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic, the crew of the starship Nostromo is awakened from cryo-sleep to investigate a distress call from a desolate planet, inadvertently unleashing a monstrous alien lifeform.
Directed by Ridley Scott
Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, and Harry Dean Stanton
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Flashing/Strobing lights
Assistance Options: closed captioning, descriptive audio, assisted listening
SUNSHINE (2007)
Friday, October 17 – 9:15 p.m.
With dazzling visuals, claustrophobic horror, and an all-star cast lead by Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans, Danny Boyle’s twisty sci-fi thriller follows a group of astronauts on a dangerous mission to reignite Earth’s dying Sun.
Directed by Danny Boyle
Rated R for violence and language
Run Time: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Starring Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mark Strong, and Benedict Wong
Assistance Options: assisted listening
SINNERS (2025)
Saturday, October 18 – 6:30 p.m.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. A masterful fusion of visual storytelling and toe-tapping music, writer-director Ryan Coogler’s horror blockbuster reveals the full scope of his singular imagination.
Directed by Ryan Coogler
Rated R for strong bloody violence, sexual content and language
Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Hailee Steinfeld, and Wunmi Mosaku
Assistance Options: closed captioning, descriptive audio, assisted listening
VAMPIRE HUNTER D (1985)
Saturday, October 18 – 9:15 p.m.
A special 40th anniversary screening of the cult classic anime. In the year 12,090 AD, technology and the supernatural have overtaken the world. When Doris is chosen as the next bride for a vampire Count, she hires a mysterious vampire hunter known only as D in an attempt to escape her ill-gotten fate.
Directed by Toyoo Ashida
Not Rated (Viewer discretion advised for animated nudity, violence, and gore)
Run Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Starring Michie Tomizawa, Seizo Kato, Kaneto Shiozawa, Satoko Kifuji
Japanese with English Subtitles
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Flashing/Strobing lights
Assistance Options: open captions, assisted listening
JENNIFER’S BODY (2009)
Thursday, October 23 – 6:30 p.m.
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.
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Rated R for sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use
Run Time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Brody
Assistance Options: assisted listening
THE CRAFT (1996)
Thursday, October 23 – 8:45 p.m.
A campy teen drama with peak 90s vibes starring Robin Tunney and Fairuza Balk. After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches whose desire for power leads to dangerous consequences.
Directed by Andrew Fleming
Rated R for some terror and violence, and for brief language
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes
Starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True
Assistance Options: assisted listening
VIDEODROME (1983)
Friday, October 24 – 7:15 p.m.
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 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
Directed by David Cronenberg
Rated R for sexuality, nudity, violence, gore, language, and intense scenes
Run Time: 1 hour, 29 minutes
Starring James Woods, Debbie Harry, and Sonja Smits
Assistance Options: assisted listening
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
Friday, October 24 – 9:15 p.m.
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. ~ American Genre Film Archive
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Not Rated (Viewer discretion advised for severe violence, nudity, and disturbing images)
Run Time: 1 hour, 7 minutes
Starring Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, and Nobu Kanaoka
Japanese with English Subtitles
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: Flashing/Strobing lights and images
Assistance Options: open captions, assisted listening
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)
Sunday, October 26 – 7:15 p.m.
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. Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis star in Robert Zemeckis’ outrageously entertaining black comedy about greed, vanity, sex and immortality.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Rated PG-13 for some nudity, violence, and rude humor
Run Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Starring Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini
Assistance Options: assisted listening