Review of Let the Right One In (2008) by Ben D — 11 Jun 2014

Pure soul jangling brilliance!

One of the most original, subtly disturbing, Visually enthralling movies I've had the fortune to watch. So good that if we were to find an alien race and we wished to demonstrate for them a human beings attempt at true art, this movie would be a top contender. Let The Right One In is a wonderful expression of genres in an amazingly dark horror mystic that refuses to be categorised. Some may class this as a horror but the only scares are through the power of the story that's all about relationships. The depth and brutality of the story leaves a strange uplifting feeling followed by a tinge of sadness, it's that clever. The movies finale is astonishingly well shot which is only fitting with all that goes before it and surely puts the movie right up there with all the great vampire movies ever made. LTROI, like Eli asks of Oskar, fights back against all of the Hollywood regurgitation over the years. A fantastic dark horror that's overshadowed by a lingering disturbing love. Let's hope the American remake does it justice.