let the right one in
Let the Right One In (Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson. Based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay, the film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. Alfredson, unconcerned with the horror and vampire conventions, decided to tone down many elements of the novel and focus primarily on the relationship between the two main characters. Selecting the lead actors involved a year-long process with open castings held all over Sweden. In the end, then 11-year-olds Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson were chosen for the leading roles. The icy cold settings emphasize the loneliness of these two pre-teens who are surrounded by darkness and snow and yet find one another making Let the Right One In, not only a great take on the vampire but a great coming of age film as well.
Let the Right One In Official Website
US Remake: Let Me In
Bilson, Anne. Devil's Advocates: Let the Right One In. Auteur, 2011.
Let the Right One In Official Website
US Remake: Let Me In
Bilson, Anne. Devil's Advocates: Let the Right One In. Auteur, 2011.
Set in a snowy, surburban housing estate in 1980s Stockholm, the film combines supernatural elements with social realism. It features Oskar, a lonely, bullied child, and Eli, the girl next door. The two forge an intense relationship that is at once innocent and disturbing. Two outsiders against the world, one of these outsiders is, essentially, a serial killer. While startlingly original, Let the Right One In could not have existed without the near century of vampire cinema that preceded it. (The film inherits) such classics as Nosferatu (1979) and Dracula (1931). (Anne Bilson) discusses the genre's early fliration with social realism in films such as Martin (1977) and Near Dark (1987), along with its adaptation of mythology to the modern world, and she examines the changing relationship between vampires and humans, the role of the vampire's assistant, and the enduring figure of vampires in popular culture.