Come to the GRINDHOUSE Midnights at The Tivoli This Weekend

“White meat, dark meat. All will be carved. THANKSGIVING!“

Time to revisit the days of the double feature when GRINDHOUSE (2007) plays at the Tivoli Friday and Saturday as part of the Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight film series this weekend (May 2^nd and 3^rd).

THE BEAST MUST DIE with THE SPECTRE OF EDGAR ALLEN POE. OLD DRACULA with SQUIRM. THE DEVIL’S RAIN with THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION. These are just a few of the many double features I saw on the big screen back in the 1970’s (not to mention the hundreds of double and triple features I caught at the drive-ins back then) –now’s your chance to relive those days

Grindhouse was incredibly risky, and for that it paid the price of box-office disappointment. I don’t know many people who liked both PLANET TERROR and DEATHPROOF equally. Yes, they’re both exploitation pictures, but one’s a zombie movie and the other is a gear head horror flick. The real joy of seeing GRINDHOUSE — and yes, I mean the experience, not PLANET TERROR or DEATHPROOF in their separate editions — is the production values of the production and how they perfectly mimic the quality and aesthetic sensibilities of all the popcorn crunchers that were fixtures of drive-ins and urban theaters in the early to mid ’70s. If you don’t get a smile on your face seeing the multi-colored concentric circle wash of the title cards for “Prevues (sic) of Coming Attractions” and “Our Feature Presentation” then you weren’t there, and that’s going to take away some of the appeal. The trailers are hilarious — from the growling narrator over the “MACHETE” preview to the awesomely bad slasher-film era parody “THANKSGIVING” (when are they going to make that into a feature?) to the hilarious lampoon of the trailer for “DON’T…..! They even have a still montage of food from a local Tex Mex joint!

If you long for the days of the drive-in, complete with scratchy film stocks, cigarette burns, missing reels, and crackly soundtracks, GRINDHOUSE is the real deal (sort of).

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for the next few weeks:

May 2-3 GRINDHOUSE
May 9-10 THE PRINCESS BRIDE
May 16-17 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA – With live cast, The Graveyard Shift!
May 23-24 DIE HARD

Stay tuned here at We Are Movie Geeks for more updates on the Midnight series!