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Let The Right One In
Advantages: Good acting, substance over hack and slash
Disadvantages: Not gripping
...novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In focuses on the relationship between Oskar and the vampire Eli.
Oskar's parents are separated and he is continuously bullied at school. Eli moves in nearby with an old man. Oskar forms a friendship with Eli who encourages him to stand up for himself. At this point Oskar is unaware that Eli is a vampire but he eventually finds this out.
The snow, lighting and dreary setting succeed in conveying ...
...the children is far more active than those of the adults who appear quite depressed. The two leads were aged 11 at the time of release and they do a fantastic job.
The problem with the film for me is that whilst the story makes it more than your typical hack and slash vampire film it's far from gripping. It's a nice tale of friendship however if you're looking for a reason not to turn it off you'll come up with very few. ...
 CloudRuler 28.08.2009 · Read full review
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Blood sucking in Stockholm
Advantages: Beautifully filmed, intriguing
Disadvantages: Some will find it too slow
Oskar is a twelve year old boy who is bullied at school and generally over-looked by everyone who knows him. Then he meets a young girl of his own age who has apparently moved in next door. Her name is Eli and she lives on blood. The man she lives with, Hakan, provides her with the blood by killing locals, but there is a hunt on for the murderer and Eli could well be at risk. Her friendship with Oskar develops and she helps him to stand up for himself, ...
...longer able to help Eli. Can Oskar continue where Hakan left off? And will Oskar's bully try to get his revenge? Oskar is played by Kare Hedebrant, who is really quite superb in the role, simply because he comes across as being a complete innocent. The fact that he has pale yellow, almost white, hair and very white, milky skin just adds to the picture. He doesn't actually do very much during the course of the film, apart from look sweet and at the ...
 sunmeilan 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Stunning Swedish Vampire Love Story
Advantages: Fantastic story, brilliant characters, great acting a subtle absorbing love story
Disadvantages: Nothing
Let the right One in has been something of a sleeper hit on the indie scene, a Swedish film about a 12 year old vampire, it sounds in theory a bit soft, but it's not at all. The film begins following the weak incredibly blonde 12 year old Oskar as he plays in front of mirror pretending to stab somebody, the scene is oddly reminiscent of Taxi Drive and De Niro's Travis Bickle in the sense that both are acting out the person they want to be rather ...
...film convinced the author of Let the Right One in, John Ajvide Lindqvist, that Alfredson understood the tone and direction the film needed to go in to make the successful translation to screen. Alfredson's direction is brilliant in this film, he allows the film to pace itself and doesn't set it up with gory killings or other special effects unless they have a real impact on the story. The story is slow paced and character based, the longing shots ...
 paulie1975 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Original, haunting and viciously real.
Advantages: Original and moving. Great story. Great acting. Very powerful.
Disadvantages: Leaves you with unanswered questions (Not always bad though)
The film is set in one of Stockholm’s suburbs in the early 1980’s and is based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I have not read the book so I will not compare the film to the novel in this review. Oskar is a 12 year old boy who is bullied in school. He has no friends and his relationship with his parents is somewhat distant. One night, when Oskar is out playing in the courtyard of his neighbourhood, he meets a girl named Eli. She is also 12 ...
...no friends. They find each other quickly and become instant friends but it doesn’t take long until Oskar realizes that Eli is actually not a 12 year old girl but a vampire. Their friendship evolves into love and love evolves into eternal commitment. Eli tries to help Oskar to stand up for himself in the only way she can; by fighting back. Oskar finally gets back at his bully in a confrontation which ends in serious consequences. This film is a dark ...
metbebe 26.10.2009 · Read full review
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silly, lesbian Vampires...serious...i think not
Advantages: funny, sexy, chilled out
Disadvantages: corny
I went to See Lesbian Vampire Killers at the Cinema with 4 close friends! We had a whole night planned! Silly Film for Starters with Popcorn and chocolate then out on the the town with drinking and dancing! Being a group of people who LOVE any kind of silly film we went into this Movie with high hopes that it would be a light hearted and totally pointless silly movie! We weren't disappointed! I've seen mixed reviews on this movie BUT I believe that ...
...girls into vampires ...... beautiful lesbian vampires..... and the locals offer up travelers to them for food. They end up in a cottage with some very beautiful girls who are visiting the town researching this curse! Night time comes and the Lesbian Vampires come out! All Hell breaks loose and there's a lot of fizzing and killing vampires! IF you want a light hearted film, with a LOT of silly sayings and a lot of silly yet sexy things going on then ...
Sassyharibo 04.05.2009 · Read full review
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