Beetle's Review of Let The Right One In.

If you happen to glance at reviews of this film online you'll find a recurring theme: most reviewers tend to agree that it is one of the best (if not THE best) vampire films to come out in a while.

Imagine what you would get if you mixed Twilight and Frankenstein together, that's essentially what we get with Let The Right One In, minus all the sappy teen love shit. Let The Right One in is a dark, beautiful, tragic and completely haunting tale of two 12 year olds, both alienated and outcasts, that meet and fall in love. One of them is a vampire.

I saw this film at the urging of my dad ( who still hasn't seen it, but kept going on about how great it was suppossed to be). I read the basic plot...and thought it sounded boring. It was with a good bit of hesitation that I finally viewed the film. Now that I have seen it I find the more I sit and think about this haunting film, the more I grow to like it.

Let The Right One In is a different kind of Vampire flick...unlike anything you've ever seen before. I don't lie when I say that there really is nothing that can prepare you for this film. It's not a horror film...and sure doesn't feel like your usual vamp flick. The pacing is (painfully) slow at times, there's never much excitement or action and it keeps the same tone thru-out most of the film. It's a very bleak film...but I liked it.

The film delivers one of the best vampire portrayals I've seen in a while. There hasn't been a character this beautiful and tragic since the portrayal of Frankenstein by Boris Karloff. We, the viewer, are equal parts terrified of her, but at the same time find ourselves falling in love with her as Oskar does. She is a beautiful, pale, awkward little girl. She doesn't appear to enjoy killing people but does so because, in her own words: she "must". At times she appears achingly innocent, but we know that she is capable of dark deeds. Her Name is Eli, and we follow her path of pain for most of the film. She is 12. Her lover is Oskar. A young, bullied and picked on kid that has begun to have fantasies about murdering his aggressors. She does what she can for him while trying to resist her apetite for his blood.

Anyone that has ever been bullied,alienated, outcast or felt like they are alone in this big World of ours is likely to find themselves attracted to the lovers and the themes that the story presents

Let the right one in is a hauntingly beautiful, dark little gem that we don't get the pleasure of viewing very often. It's a true, unique masterpiece that deserves to be seen and is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise re-make filled hollywood that we have today.

Breath it in and relax.

Full Price- 4 Stars