Midnight Son – directed by Scott Leberecht Festival screening times – 3/4 @ 930pm, 3/6 @ 645pm, 3/11 @ 1230pm WORLD PREMIERE If there’s one film genre that’s been done to death in recent years it’s the whole ‘sexy ballerinas engaging in lesbian shenanigans’ storyline. Hollywood needs to give that one a rest already. But close behind it are movies about vampires. From Twilight to True Blood vampires are a character type well past the point of over saturation as filmmakers seem content on milking the same weak conventions time and again. For every Let Me In we seem to get five more like Suck or Transylmania. The need for a more nuanced and interesting take on these blood-suckers is long overdue. Which makes the arrival of Scott Leberecht‘s Midnight Son such a goddamn relief. Part urban horror, part loneliness drama, and part late-night romance, Leberecht’s film takes a low-key approach that avoids most of the cliches while reveling in the only one that matters… the unquenchable desire to drink blood out of Styrofoam cups.