Friday, October 24, 2025 | 7PM | General Admission
Film Director and Screenwriter Gregory Lamberson brings his latest feature film to the Opera House for a special screening and Q&A with him and members of the cast.
Horror thriller Frenzy Moon is Lamberson’s tenth feature film as a director, and his seventh filmed in western New York. (Lamberson was born in Gowanda, and raised in Fredonia.)
Frenzy Moon tells the story of six college students and a mysterious hunter who spend a terrifying night battling werewolves in a remote cabin. Lamberson describes Frenzy Moon as “a cross between The Howling and John Carpenter’s The Thing.” It won a Gold Award for Best Film at the Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival. The film also won a Bronze Award for Best Film Score at the same festival. The score was composed by SUNY Fredonia School of Music Lecturers Armand Petri and Ed Croft.
The film’s principal cast is primarily comprised of Western New York theater actors: Alyssa Grace Adams, Aaron Krygier, Kayla Walker, Gabrielle Nunzio, Harold Octavius Jacob, Steven Maiseke and Jacob Applegate. Lamberson cast many of them after scouting them in local stage productions. The crew was also local. It was filmed largely in Clarence.
A member of the Producers Guild of America, some of Lamberson’s previous films include Johnny Gruesome, Widow’s Point and Guns of Eden. Lamberson also is the author of 15 books, including the novels The Frenzy Way, The Frenzy War and The Frenzy Wolves.
Members of the SUNY Fredonia’s Digital Marketing for the Music Industry class are sponsoring a food drive at the screening. Bring a donation of a non-perishable food item (canned fruit, canned vegetables, peanut butter, pasta, etc.) to benefit the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry, and receive a limited edition CD featuring John Rzeznik (The Goo Goo Dolls) and Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs).
Two Shorts Featured
Also to be screened prior to the feature film are two shorts filmed and produced by local filmmakers: Close Your Eyes (5 minutes) and Shadows (11 minutes).
Directed by Hope Muehlbauer, Close Your Eyes was produced for Warehouse 47 Films, the production company of Donovan Gale, Jay Gleason, and Gabriell Nunzio, all of whom worked on Frenzy Moon. Gale and Gleason are SUNY Fredonia alumni. In it, a young couple has a conversation that will decide the future of their relationship.
Shadows is written and directed by, and stars talented Fredonia filmmaker Tim Watson. In this short, a lone man struggles with a sinister presence inside his apartment.
Tickets to this event are sold at the door only.
Tickets Information:
Adults – $10
Seniors/Students – $7
