Let The Right One In

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Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire
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So anyway, a couple days ago I was thinking to myself that I hadn't seen a good vampire movie in awhile. Stumbled across this one in my search which came out in 2008. It's a foreign film, most people don't like them cause they're too lazy to read subtitles, but I don't mind. Anyway, all I can say is wow. This movie was pretty fuckin' good even though it really wasn't an action movie. I watched a little bit of Twilight and thought it sucked, but this movie right here should be more popular than Twilight, imo. They're suppose to be remaking it in English, but I really hope they don't. Has anyone else seen it? I hear the book is even better.

Even the music was good.

 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/

There's your remake. By Matt Reeves, who directed Cloverfield.
Let The Right One In is a film I've been meaning to see for a few months now, but I've not managed it yet. I've heard nothing but praise for it from a few friends, who have never managed to steer me far wrong yet so I'm really looking forward to it.
 
It's a good/very good movie.
It's not even a horror film I think. It just happens to have a vampire in it. How she gives him the courage to stand up for himself etc.
 
did you watch it online somehow? I've already been taken by the music you posted.
 
Fantastic film. It looks amazing, has the perfect atmosphere to it and the climactic sequence is just jaw-dropping. Terrific on every level, and the shot in the arm the vampire genre needed amidst all this recent sparkly vampire rubbish.
 
I read some of the book couple years ago and it was good. Sadly Ive not managed to watch the film, but Im going to look into it.
 
I thought it was pretty good. The ending was awesome in my opinion. It wasn't really a full fledged horror film in the traditional sense but I'd still classify it under that genre. Regardless, it added some much needed substance to the horror genre.
 
I wouldn't even class it as a horror film at all. It just happened that Eli was a vampire. I'm not looking forward to the Hollywood remake, and then everyone making a big fuss over that. They'll either make it overly-gory and detract from the actual story, or go the other way and make it some soppy piece of romance crap.

Anyway, it was truly excellent; one of the best films I've seen in a long time. I like that they didn't bother giving Eli a massive back story. They just introduced her as a character, established who she was and then let the story play out from there.
I liked that it didn't have a heavy over use of the soundtrack too. I think too many films these days use music to try and force upon the audience how they should be feeling at that point, rather than letting them arrive there themselves.
 
This is a good film.
I had bought it myself knowing nothing about it. I based the movie off of the cover and what it had said one the back. After watching it i must say it is one of my favorite vampire movies. Also not to long ago (before i got the film) they had this thing on tv of the top 50 sayings in film. Watching it i noticed that one of the sayings was from this movie.

A remake! How old is the movie?
 
Veritas said:
A remake! How old is the movie?
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Its to be remade in English. Kinda like when the Americans ruin the good Japanese horror movies. I dont get why they have to remake it into english, what the fucks wrong with the subtitles??
 
Genuinely one of the worst films I've ever seen

I can appreciate good themes, hidden things directors try to get across and powerful plot lines as much as the next guy...it's just a shame this film has none of that. It has 2 children playing the main characters and one of them gets bullied a bit and this weird looking girl just says "fight them" and he does. Very awkward child-love scenes (not sex for anyone wondering, just very un-cute scenes where they like each other), no excitement/noticable enjoyment to be gained and general dullness contribute to this being quite pish.

I don't understand where anyone's getting "great film" from :wacky:
 
It looks to be interesting. I'm a self professed hater of the Twilight saga, absolutely abhor it. I'm more drawn to films and books that take the traditional representation of vampires into account. This movie sounds dark, touching, and romantic. Definitely need to see it. If I could nab it somehow as a DVD it'd be even better but eh, I'll settle for watching it on Youtube 'till I can find something. Hopefully there is something.

The music sounds absolutely stunning by the way, very melancholy, like it's straight out of a fairytale book.
 
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