Let The Right One In (DVD)

Let The Right One In has been highly touted as one of the best vampire movies ever made. This kind of praise tends to lead to a major disappointment when you eventually see the film though. For a change Let The Right One In actually exceeds your expectations, mainly because it is not only incredibly stylish but also because it is nothing like what you expect it to be. Oddly enough the first thing I would suggest you do if you have any thoughts about seeing this film is to avoid all reviews of it. I think you can rely on most reviews (including a couple of newspaper reviews I read afterwards) to reveal too much and include what is the surprising part about the ...  Read the complete review

A review of the Momentum DVD, currently selling for £11 on amazon. This is a recent arty vampire film from Sweden. It's been getting some wildly over-the-top praise. As a bitter old cynic who's seen more vampire films than you have, I was half-expecting to be disappointed by this. But it more or less delivers, even if it inevitably isn't as great as some of the praise suggests. A 12-year-old boy - lonely, bullied, knife-obsessed Oskar - tries to make friends with the girl who moves in next door, Eli, also 12, sort of. Some reviews I've read have suggested that this next bit is a spoiler, but I disagree: Eli is a vampire, as is made obvious by the ...  Read the complete review

I owe a debt of gratitude to Ailran for pointing me in the direction of this film with his excellent review of it. I would probably not have ever come across it otherwise and I have to say it is one of the most clever and enjoyable films I have watched for a while. This is a Swedish film with subtitles although I understand that it was such a cult hit that a Hollywood version is now being made (although personally I cannot see a Hollywood version ever managing to capture the intense darkness of this film half as well). Plot ==== Essentially this is a vampire story but its played out against a very mundane backdrop which is one of the ...  Read the complete review

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 than the person they really are. The reason Oskar so badly wants to hurt somebody is because is he bullied by the awful Conny and his two henchmen who seem much less convinced of this whole bullying malarkey. We ...  Read the complete review

Let the Right One in (2008) This is one of those films that I have been waiting to see, everything I have read about it was positive, and Ailran's review on Dooyoo convinced me, so it was with some expectation I sat down at the weekend to watch this on Virgin Media (not a DVD review). The director is Thomas Alfredson of whom I know nothing, and the main stars are two 11/12 year olds called Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson ditto my knowledge of them. The film is subtitled, I do not generally watch subtitled films, yet my desire to watch this film overcame my Philistinism and I persevered. ~~~The Plot and ...  Read the complete review