Next up in our Vampire film countdown is a modern movie from 2008 based on a best-selling novel, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Directed
by Tomas Alfredson and starring Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson,
this Swedish film is one of the most beautiful and original vampire
films of all time. Young Oskar is an outcast, a loner who is picked on
by the school bullies. A new girl named Eli arrives at his apartment complex, and the two become friends. There is something different about this girl - she has a dark, dangerous quality which young Oskar identifies with. Around this same time a string on inexplicable murders begins. Oskar slowly begins to realize there is
more than meets the eye about this strange, pale girl who only comes
out at night…
This film
was remade by Hammer Studios in 2010 under the title LET ME IN. Both
versions are excellent, with the Swedish one just barely edging out the
Hammer version. The two young actors in LET THE RIGHT ONE IN are really
terrific, and the story is brutal and believable, punctuated by the
stark cold backdrop of a snowy Swedish ghetto. Highly recommended, this
is one terrific movie.
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