Swedish Vampires! LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli

“I’m twelve. But I’ve been twelve for a long time.”

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is a 2008 Swedish horror film that tells the story of Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar young girl who happens to be a vampire. . LET THE RIGHT ONE IN has been variously acclaimed as ‘A Chilling Fairytale’; ‘Horror film of the century’; “Unforgettable Cinema”; “Instant Classic” etc. and (apart from the last which is a contradiction in terms!) deserves all the acclaim. But it is much more than just a horror story – it’s more like a coming-of-age story of first love – with vampires. Oskar is a lonely outsider, all but ignored by his separated parents and bullied cruelly by his classmates. When Eli and her ‘guardian’ move in next door his interest is piqued by the fact that she never goes out by day and the windows in her bedroom are all blacked up. For her part Eli is drawn to Oskar although at their first meeting she tells him “We can never be friends”. Meanwhile her guardian is out hunting for Eli’s latest feed: a batch of fresh blood.

While there are a few frightening moments in the film it never sets out for cheap shocks. When Eli suddenly attacks one of her victims from above it isn’t just a sudden ZAP! but rather a silent swoop from the sky, making the scene all the more chilling. The horror of this story is in the setting not the action, it is in what Eli is rather than what she does. She is neither the Gothic nor glamorous vampire we are used to but rather a frightened little girl who will never grow up. Don’t miss the chance to see LET THE RIGHT ONE IN on the bog screen when it plays midnights this Friday and Saturday (October 2^nd and 3^rd) at the Tivoli. Admission is only $8

A Facebook invite for the event cn be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/915187141895838/

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:

Oct 9-10                                            WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

Oct 16-17                                         MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Oct 23-24 and Oct 31-Nov 1    ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with live shadow cast with the Samurai Electricians.