Review of Let the Right One In (2008) by Nick A — 26 Aug 2012
EMPIRE magazine's Kim Newman compared this film to Victor Erice's 1973 majestic opus The Spirit of the Beehive. I can't think of a better parallel: Each film is as graceful and authoritatively affecting; and just as Beehive faintly honors the grandeur of the story and heartbreak of Frankenstein, so does Let the Right One In tribute the entire lore of vampires and the corresponding stories of its written and spoken history through gentle underscores in the film's own narrative.
As you've heard -- and as you will always hear from anyone who's seen it -- Let the Right One In is only a vampire horror picture on the outside; beneath its surface is an intricate, deeply intimate, and ironically life-avowing story of love (not only of the romantic bond between one individual and another, but of a deep passion for the nature of people and things as they relate to the development of the universe).
A staggering film.
This review of Let the Right One In (2008) was written by Nick A on 26 Aug 2012.
Let the Right One In has generally received very positive reviews.
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