Let the right one in…
(It’s 4am, so please forgive me for my probable lack of quality prose, or even the ability to make coherent, cogent sense… I’ll read this in the morning and bury my face in my palm no doubt)
I thought I’d write this brief review of Sweden’s latest vampire thriller fantasy film. I say latest, I mean ‘first’, but hopefully not the last — because Let the right one in is fantastic!
Without spoiling, the film stars 2 kids, with a variety of other kids (who are very well played), a bunch of adults (which are believable, but really quite unimportant to the actual story). Boy meets girl. Girl solves Rubiks Cube. Boy falls in love with girl’s apparent problem-solving abilities.
Girl is a vampire. Damn.
(I’m not really spoiling, because it’s really damn obvious that she’s a vampire from the outset: the belaboured breathing, dried blood in her hair and her totally hilariously over-sized irises are just slight hints that she might not be wholly alive. And the total evasion of sunlight…)
But hey, the boy doesn’t know much about vampires, so how was he to know?
What follows is a beautifully romantic tale of teenage exploration, with a little slice of mystical fantasy thrown in to keep you on the edge of your seat. And of course, once you’re on the edge of your seat, you have so far to recoil when the little nipper sucks the blood out of some poor soul with nary a warning.
As with most horror/thrillers, the sound effects were grimly chilling. Lots of noisy breathing and over-the-top footfalls. There’s a truly disturbing ‘death rattle’ type noise that accompanies the hungry vampire too…
It’s all very different for a horror/thriller, and I strongly encourage everyone to watch it — though, it being a vampire film, if you don’t like the sight, sound or slippery viscousity of blood, you might want to give this one a miss. Or if you don’t like the after-effects of someone pouring sulphuric acid on themselves (but that’s the only ‘Oh, how typically nasty’ effect in the film — the rest is far more tasteful).
It’s 4am, so I really should try and sleep. At least I know, without invitation, vampires can’t enter.
I hope I don’t sleep talk…
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You should read Twilight *insert typical boy response here* You would looooove it! Or maybe not, whatevs.
P.S. I pulled the crush off the side of the road… it was barely breathing… but there may still be hope.
March 28th, 2009 at 4:45 amI’ve heard the movie is great. I definitely have to watch it.
(Thanks for the comment! Is Newcastle a boring town? I’ve never been and I’m slightly worried about that!)
March 28th, 2009 at 6:02 ami can totally solve a rubik’s cube. you just peel those damn stickers off and put them on the way you like.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:11 amit’s 7 0 7 and i’m hammered and you posted so just commenting saying HI!
will reread when i regain ability to read/concentrate
and will leave better comment then.
till then – hi!
March 28th, 2009 at 7:08 amSo, still no lesbians?
March 28th, 2009 at 10:51 amPingu… 7am? You sure are trying to prove that you are still, in fact, a girl, and not a lady
The Rubiks Cube I had, Maddie, was a PROPER one, without stickers. You could take the whole thing apart and put it together again though, which I often did. Have you ever seen the ‘speed cubing‘? Or the 12 second solve?
No lesbians. There is some very young child nudity though… but I don’t think those two fetishes have much of a shared audience.
I don’t think it’s fair, or just, to put this film and Twilight in the same category. Maybe if there was an apocalypse, and only this film and Twilight were left, then MAYBE they would talk, or at least make eye contact. Until then… I don’t think so.
I updated the post with some pics, so you can see just how cute the boy is — and how eerily scary the girl is!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pmchild nudity? I think I might give it a miss
March 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pmIt’s incredibly brief — so brief, I wasn’t even sure what I’d just seen.
Watch it! My recommendations have been good so far, right?!
March 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pmi have seen those. i have no clue how kids do that. kinda freaky…
March 28th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI’ve looked into it (but not tried it!) It’s based on ‘look algorithms’. You can basically look at it, and then solve from there (they’re not actually look at it, as they solve it — would be too slow). Then they look at it again, after X number of moves, and continue like so.
I think the best algorithms are between 3 and 10 looks at the cube, I think!
(And there’s your geeky information for the day…)
March 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm