30th Anniversary of ALIENS – This Weekend Midnights at The Tivoli

“We’d better get back, ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night… mostly.”

ALIENS plays this weekend (September 30rd and October 1st) at the Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at the Tivoli Midnight series. 

ALIENS is a great sequel though James Cameron chucked the creepy Ridley Scott atmosphere for a more action-oriented format. Set 57 years after the original, Ripley’s escape pod has been found, and she is returned to earth. Once she gets there, however, her story is discounted and The Company fire her for detonating her old ship. A few weeks later Burke, an employee of The Company, asks her to go with a group of marines to LV-426 (the planet where she found the first alien), where contact has been lost with a colony of terraformers…

ALIENS is a fantastic movie. It is quite different from 1 & 3 in the series, in that there is a huge nest of Aliens instead of one, and Ripley actually has some decent firepower. Yet it doesn’t descend into the usual action clichés of firefight after firefight: the few marines left after the initial alien attack are stranded, and try to barricade themselves in, leading to some tense and genuinely frightening moments as the aliens grow ever closer. The characters are also well-developed, which is a change, you really feel something as they die, which adds to the overall effect. The acting is extremely high quality; some characters aren’t hugely likeable, but they’re still enjoyable to watch. This is arguably the best film in the series – interesting, exciting and genuinely scary.

I will be there with trivia and prizes so bone up on your Aliens knowledge!

The Tivoli is located at 6350 Delmar in The Loop.

Visit Landmark’s The Tivoli’s website HERE

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

And here’s the midnight line-up for the next several weeks:

Oct. 7-8                                              YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Oct. 14-15                                          HALLOWEEN (1978)

October 21-22 and Oct 28-29       ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – with live shadow cast, Samurai Electricians! – All tickets $10 for ROCKY