This film is by far the best thing that I have seen all year (I've seen it twice). It is beautifully shot and depicts the darkness of winter with all of it's forebodings of death, as well as it's renewals.
Few are the movies that left me trembling...and incapable of expressing the hundreds of different feelings i felt after watching Tomas Alfredson's "Let the right one come in".
I managed to catch this movie in Vancouver whilst it was on limited release the other month, and rarely has a day gone by that I've not found myself thinking back to it. As a fan of horror movies and vampire movies, I eagerly awaited this movie, especially after the glowing write-ups it received almost unilaterally.
Let the Right One In is poignant, sad, weird, different, elusive, as well as being a fine movie. Oskar is a blond 12-year-old who lives with his divorced mother in an apartment complex in Stockholm.
I love the horror cinema. It's the genre that got me interesting in movies in the first place.
This is a lovely film with beautiful cinematography and something to be enjoyed from various audio/visual perspectives. I thought the orchestral background music, right from the off, was wonderful, as well as the fabulous camera work, filming inside a school building with four or five windows, watching a night train pass from left to right, gradually passing across each window, one by one...
Aren't Swedish film makers just f*ing fantastic? They make a movie about a sh*tty subject as Vampires and they make a brilliant movie.
Let the Right One In 12 year old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) has divorced parents, abusive school bullies, unsatisfied revenge issues and no friends. One day a 12 year old (more or less) girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson) moves in next door.
This movie doesn't stick to the clique stereotypes about love or vampires that most movies do, which I find refreshing. They did an amazing job sticking to the books as much as they could.