Camp Frida 9: Monster Mash

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Endurance is a love language for some people. Not the gym kind - the kind where you sit in the same seat for twelve hours because leaving would mean you were not really in it. Orange County's only nonprofit theater has been running this particular act of devotion for nine years now, and the deal is simple and slightly insane: the first film goes up in the late afternoon and the last one lets out at four in the morning, and the lineup stays classified until the frame hits the screen. You do not get to pick. You find out with everyone else, in the dark, at two in the morning, when a title card appears and half the room loses its mind because somebody recognizes it. That shared blind trust is the whole event. The regulars know the geography of it: the upper tiers get in early to claim seats and there is pizza at dinnertime, which by hour six stops being a perk and starts being medical. Sunday, October 18, doors 3:30pm, first film 4pm, at 305 E 4th St, Santa Ana. Thirty dollars general.