Friday, October 31, 2008

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: just in time for Halloween

“VAMPIRE LORE RARELY COMES ACROSS AS INSPIRED AND ALIVE AS IT DOES IN THIS EXQUISITELY CRAFTED FILM." – Film Comment

“THIS IS A VAMPIRE MOVIE LIKE NO OTHER. MESMERIZING.” – David Ansen, Newsweek

A fragile, anxious boy, Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back.

As much a coming-of-age story as vampire tale, Let the Right One In does its unsettling work quietly. Twelve-year-old Oskar lives in a drab village outside Stockholm, where by day he's the victim of relentless bullying, and by night he dreams of revenge.

Slipping out of sight of his single mother, Oskar fills a notebook with news on the gruesome killings that have set neighborhood nerves on edge-someone is tying people up, breaking their necks, and draining their blood. Oskar rehearses knife moves in the icy courtyard of his apartment complex...

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