Let the Right One In

This is one of the rare moments in movie history—a spectrally beautiful Vampire movie that will entice, entertain and surprise you with its intensity. Made in Sweden, Let the Right One In borrows its title from a darkly romantic Morrisey song. Director Tomas Alfredson has built up a cool but passionate plot with its flaxen-faced, dark-haired fiesta of young characters. And there is a super cast of blood and gore and strung-up victims, flayed body parts that lovers of this genre have sorely missed for many years.
The movie manages to blend genuine emotion with the chills and horrors that accompany its genre. Beautifully shot gruesome surprises for the horror freaks and nasty kid-on-kid violence to go. Let the Right One In gives the genre a superior facelift and more blood on the floor than seen in a long, long time.
This movie is one of the most talked about movies even prior to the English release in the latter half of 2008. The outcast, a 12-year-old Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) finds a friend in Eli (played by Lina Leandersson), a neighbour. Soon enough, he learns that there are physical ways in which he can deal with his tormentors in school. Both the outsiders (Eli, if you haven’t guessed, is ready to bite…) finally find themselves together in an insidious battle.
Even if the Vampire movie has been done to death, there is always room for Alfredson’s latest creation. If only because it is an apt depiction of a young boy’s learning to be brave as he comes of age, Let the Right One In.