When I first started hearing about a movie called “Let the Right One In”, I legitimately thought to myself, “I don’t know what that’s about, but whatever it is, that’s a kick-ass title for a movie”. After reading one of the first reviews of the movie, I then thought to myself, “That sounds fucking awesome. Also, remember to pick up some lunch meat for sandwiches at the grocery store tomorrow.”
I haven’t seen “Let the Right One In” yet, so I will let someone else summarize the plot for you:
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to comes true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him. But Eli’s arrival coincides with a series of gruesome deaths and attacks. Though Oskar realizes that she’s a vampire, his friendship with her is stronger than his fear. Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing, darkly atmospheric, yet unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. The feature is based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, which the U.K. press qualified as “reminiscent of Stephen King at his best.”
Typically, the vampire genre as a whole does not interest me whatsoever. And I’m not a horror movie buff in the least. I don’t know Dario Argento from Daria the chick from that animated MTV show. But after reading some reviews and watching the red-band trailer…I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl for this. Before I go on, check out the trailer:
I’m no expert on Sweden either, but to be completely honest with you, I always kinda figured the country was made up of mostly vampires anyway. But the subjects of the movie aren’t just Swedish vampires. They are Swedish vampire children. (Now there’s a genre that doesn’t get too much attention.)
There is another “young people vampires” movie getting a lot of press at the moment as well, and it’s called “Twilight”. I know absolutely nothing about “Twilight” and frankly, I hope to never find out anything. Due to the absolutely amazing amount of coverage it receives on MTV and similar news outlets, I have no doubt that the target audience of the book it was based on and the movie itself is 13-14 year old girls. So it’s just like “High School Musical” except with more angst, emo, and vampires. FUCKING LAME. I have no qualms about hating on something I know next to nothing about if everything I need to know is present in that “next to nothing”.
Anywhoselbees, “Let the Right One In” opens in LA and NYC today and hopefully gets picked up a bunch of other places soon after. (FYI…it’s at an astounding 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.)
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