Anders Jakobsons blogg

"If a better movie plays this year, my head will explode and I will walk around with a fully erect geek-on for a day and a half. This movie isn’t just the best screener they handed me, it is one of the very best things I have seen all year. Everyone is going to be talking about this thing. I’ve simply been dying to write about it - its rich, crisp imagery still burnt into my brain weeks later, floating aloft on the warm feelings it left me with.

Let the Right One In is quite simply the single best vampire movie I’ve seen since Near Dark. And if there’s anyone around here burnt out on Vampire Movies, it is me. Man do these things tend to piss me off. Occasionally someone gets it right – you’ll run across a gem like Frostbiten (which played FF 2 years ago) – but more often than not they turn out to be live action Vampire the Masquerade LARPs (at worst) or Anne Rice knock offs (at best.) This is nothing of the kind. In fact, I can say with full conviction that you have never, ever, ever ever seen a movie like this. It is the story of a demented little 12 year old serial-killer-obsessed Swedish boy who has a pretty new girl move in next door. She’s Twelve. She’s precocious. And she drinks the warm blood of her victims while they’re still breathing.

This is a love story, a coming of age drama AND on top of that, a horrific vampire film that has an intense love of the mythology. They don’t play around here. There is nothing fast and loose about using the rules here. She is a classic vampire that has to deal with a lot of bullshit that normal people don’t. There isn’t a single hint or even a whiff of the “Whoa is me, how I long for the fiery, burning kiss of the sun as I walk alone in the darkness” whiny goth crap here. Being a vampire is not supposed to be cool. It isn’t about being an Emo kid or wearing trench coats and sunglasses at night. It is about being a monster – something that scares the shit out of anyone with an ounce of self-preservation within them. Vampire fans of all kind and type will fall head over heels for this. It gets it right in a way no other film has in decades.

But while they get the whole vampire angle right, it is the fact that this doesn’t quite scare the shit out of the little neighbor boy that makes this both intriguing and dangerous. It is a brilliant film, and a daring one. And you cannot miss this. This is exactly the kind of film that fantastic fest was started to show. No one in this country is going to have the huevos to pick up a film like this and put it in American theaters. It’s an instant classic that is destined to become the pass around film for geeks like us who simply love a perfectly woven, horrific tale of love, loss and sacrifice.

I swear to god, if you come up and talk to me this week and I find out you skipped this, I will beat you senseless with the nearest empty bottle of beer I can find until it breaks and then I will fucking cut you for real. It’s that good. Do not, no not, DO NOT miss this. I’ll fucking cut you."

 

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