Let the Right One In

[bleacheddecay]

It is the best vampire movie - ever, it said so right on the box but is it?

Not for me. It was an intriguing movie. It's a foreign movie. It's very low budget. The pacing is quite slow, and yes, I fell asleep for a while.

So I'd call it an interesting vampire movie but certainly not the best ever. It's a different take. That's a cool thing.

I think it could have been far more engaging. I think the story could have been told better. I was a wee bit dissappointed on the whole.

BTW, I found it both amusing and frustrating that the subtitles and the voice overs were quite different. I reverted back to the foreign language so I wouldn't be constantly distracted by this glitch.

[midge303]

I thought this film was very good but not as good as the hype suggested. I thought the story was good, it was interesting to see the relationship between the vampire and the kid and how it grew. I loved the location of the film and i thought some of the camera work was very well done.

I was dissapointed in the ending, i just expected more to happen but nothing really did but a good film anyway.

8/10 for me

[n3wt]

I havent seen it, shall give it a go :yup: if I see it cheap.

[Golgot]

Really looking forward to this one.

Mate of mine snagged a quick review with the director (http://www.rollcreditsonline.com/features/53-interview/256-ftrightone.html). Has piqued my interest a little more :)

[bleacheddecay]

Yes, the ending was just sort of a fading away. This was in keeping with the fact the movie slowly moved along, never quite making me care about any of the characters or the story.

[mark f]

The ending made perfect sense to me. I couldn't think of a better way to end it, but then, I did care about the characters.

[bleacheddecay]

I'm glad it worked for you. I've heard from quite a few sources, not just the blab on the box that it IS the best vampire movie ever. So it seems to work for many.

[Thursday Next]

I haven't seen it, but somehow the words low budget, foreign and vampire used to describe it have piqued my interest. That and that the title is a Morrissey song. Added to my to-see list.

[Pyro Tramp]

Except for it only being on Blu-Ray on the site i use to get most R1 DVDs, i heard the subtitles they're using on the current releases are different due to a copyright issue on the original and as such have lost most the subtlety and humour.

[bleacheddecay]

Now that's interesting and very sad. Thanks for your post.

[Powdered Water]

Well, I'm not going to call it the best vampire movie ever. That's ridiculous, I will however say what I've already said a few times before around here. It is an effing fantastic film! One of the very best from last year as a matter of fact. Kind of sad really, the majority of really excellent films all seemed to come from outside the US last year. So far, this year isn't starting off much better.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

I thought this film was very good but not as good as the hype suggested. I thought the story was good, it was interesting to see the relationship between the vampire and the kid and how it grew. I loved the location of the film and i thought some of the camera work was very well done.

I was dissapointed in the ending, i just expected more to happen but nothing really did but a good film anyway.

8/10 for me

I thought the ending was amazing. To me it worked, because it was bleak and hopeless. Sure the two "kids" get together and ride on the train as the boy hides the vampire girl.

I don't believe this is a promising relationship. She is not going to convert him, she is simply going to use him to clean up her messes and to work in the day the way she used her prior human caretaker.

Kids are selfish and although she's old and experienced she would still have the physiological makeup of a child's brain.

The ending is perfect for the story.

[Pyro Tramp]

Spoilers????!

[Caitlyn]

Spoilers????!

Taken care of Pyro.... :)


You guys please remember that everyone has not seen this and use spoilers in your posts so you don't spoil it for others.... thanks...

[christine]

oh I thought it was an excellent film! yes slow, but not slow=boring, more like slow=taking it's time to build up the relationship and explore the character and meaning of being a vampire. I've never seen Buffy or any of those tv vampire things, they don't interest me (except the BBC series Being Human (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_(TV_series)) which is great btw), so hearing about another vampire film didn't excite me that much until I heard a little more about it and how dark it sounded intrigued me.

I loved the nuances of the plot and the way that the director/screenwriter left some of the storylines vague, just to keep questions in the viewers minds which works so well. For example I got that Haken was a paedophile whose relationship with Eli was symbiotic, very creepy and wonderfully suggested by just Eli's finger running down his cheek. Also, seemingly Eli's castration and all the rings in that egg, suggesting suffering and a very long life - again all so lightly done and giving the film so much depth. Eli's hunger turning her into an atavistic animal was bloody scary too

The setting was perfect, dark, and unremittingly cold. Very good film, enjoyed it a lot and will watch it again on dvd.

[Godoggo]

I loved the nuances of the plot and the way that the director/screenwriter left some of the storylines vague, just to keep questions in the viewers minds which works so well.

I liked that too. I am wondering if anyone has read the book, and how much of Eli's past is in it?


Also, I am in the camp that thinks the ending was perfect. In fact, I think the story would have suffered majorly had it ended any other way.

[iluv2viddyfilms]

I've never been much for spoiler warnings. I figure if you don't want to know the ending, then don't read a post or a thread that discusses that. With that being said, it's not my forum or my rules so I apologize for not posting the spoiler tags.

[Pyro Tramp]

I wouldnt have read the post if i knew it had the details of the ending in, the spoiler gives you the choice whether or not to read it or not.

[mark f]

I think the point is that the film was just released in Britain to the theatres this past week, so many members have had no chance of seeing it yet. Oh Pyro, don't worry too much about the "spoiler"; viddy's guessing. :cool:

[Pyro Tramp]

It's not released till mid May over here far as i know.

[rice1245]

I for one thought the shot of the feet dragging across the pool and the head falling in was one of the coolest looking things ever or maybe i'm just morbid=\ but yeah i thought it was a great movie and i really enjoyed the ending and would love to learn more about Eli's past

So what does everyone really think is the best vampire movie ever?

[bleacheddecay]

For me it's Interview With the Vampire and/or Fright Night. Most vampire movies suck.

[spudracer]

It's available on Netflix Instant Viewing if anyone's interested. I'm going to give it a look see later on, due to the word of mouth it's getting here.

[re93animator]

I for one thought the shot of the feet dragging across the pool and the head falling in was one of the coolest looking things ever or maybe i'm just morbid=\ but yeah i thought it was a great movie and i really enjoyed the ending and would love to learn more about Eli's past

So what does everyone really think is the best vampire movie ever?

I loved the film. Foremost the scene described in this post./\/\/\

Well, I'm not going to call it the best vampire movie ever. That's ridiculous

The vampire category doesn't have as much films that stand out among great cinematic achievements as people may think. One of the posts above pretty accurately states that "most vampire movies suck." I don't think calling Let the Right One In the best vampire film ever made is a ridiculous statement at all. I personally consider the film on a par with Browning's Dracula and Murnau's Nosferatu, which are my other two top contenders for best vamp flick.

My favorite (not best) vampire films:
1. Dracula 1931
2. Let the Right One In
3. Near Dark
4. Bram Stoker's Dracula
5. Horror of Dracula 1958

[christine]

Best vampire film for me is absolutely Nosferatu. I'm very fond, for childhood nostalgia reasons, of Dracula- the Hammer House of Horror production featuring Christopher Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as the doctor. I also like Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as Salem's Lot , the Stephen King adaptation starring David Soul.

Don't like Anne Rice's vampire books, I know they're popular but they're badly written and I don't like the gothic posturing type of vampire much.

[mark f]

The vampire movies I give the highest ratings to are Fright Night, Near Dark, Let the Right One In, The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Blade II, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Shadow of the Vampire, etc. There are several older vampire films worth watching. Yes, I even recommend you watch one of the most-boring vampire flicks, Lugosi's Dracula, but I much prefer Lugosi and Tod Browning tweaking their vampire opus in Mark of the Vampire (the ending has to be seen to be believed). Probably the coolest movie with "vampire" in the title is Planet of the Vampires, although there are no vampires and it influenced Alien even more than It! The Terror Beyond Space. There's much more to add, but why don't you add it? :)

[rice1245]

Yeah Interview is definitely my favorite vampire movie, i think it takes a realistic stance of the emotional hardships of actually living for eternity and the search for companionship to make it more bearable.

And could you elaborate on the badly written part a bit more? I didn't get that at all after reading them =\ hence rice1245

[Swan]

I think From Dusk Till Dawn is my fave vampire movie.

I also like Monster Squad, Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, Nosferatu, Shadow of a Vampire, Let the Right One In, and all the shizzlemajizzle Hammer Films did.

[re93animator]

Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein

Ah crap. I didn't think of that. Well, that would be my favorite vampire film ever made, had I thought of it at the time. I most likely forgot about it because the central plot of the film is not solely about (a) vampire(s).

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[midge303]

I would say Interview With The Vampire though i haven't seen loads of vampire films.

[christine]

And could you elaborate on the badly written part a bit more? I didn't get that at all after reading them =\ hence rice1245

Anne Rice is a very popular author and there's no getting away from that, but her prose style is over descriptive, overwrought and melodramatic. When I read one of her books I was just longing for her to strip away a lot of the padding and get on with it. I'm aware that she has thousands of fans, just the same as Dan Brown has and he's a terrible writer. Sorry, just my opinion :)

[spudracer]

I also like Monster Squad

I want to say that I used to watch this a lot, as a kid, but can't remember if this is the same movie. Is there a scene where one kid is telling another to kid the werewolf in the nads? If so, I need to add this to my Netflix queue right away.

[Swan]

I want to say that I used to watch this a lot, as a kid, but can't remember if this is the same movie. Is there a scene where one kid is telling another to kid the werewolf in the nads? If so, I need to add this to my Netflix queue right away.

"Wolfman's got nards!"

Yes.

[spudracer]

"Wolfman's got nards!"

Yes.

HA! My sister and I would watch that at my aunt's house all the time, but I couldn't remember what the title was and that was roughly 15-20 years ago. Boy, am I getting old. :D

[rice1245]

Anne Rice is a very popular author and there's no getting away from that, but her prose style is over descriptive, overwrought and melodramatic. When I read one of her books I was just longing for her to strip away a lot of the padding and get on with it. I'm aware that she has thousands of fans, just the same as Dan Brown has and he's a terrible writer. Sorry, just my opinion :)

Well i agree that it is very descriptive and melodramatic but that doesn't necessarily mean that she's a bad writer, she's just not your style haha. Just look at Tolkein, he'd go on for pages and pages just describing things and he certainly is not a bad writer. You probably like Hemingway a lot then right? He got straight down to it, barely any descriptive writing.

[christine]

I don't mind descriptive writing at all but if it's going to be done on a large scale then I like it to be well written and I just don't think that she does it well. Thomas Hardy has a lot of descriptive writing and his books are wonderful. About Tolkein, couldn't finish Lord of The Rings, bored me into sleep night after night.
Anyway, we'll have to agree to differ :)

[rice1245]

Haha yeah i loved Lord of the Rings, our reading palletes (?) just differ :yup:

[Thursday Next]

I love Interview With the Vampire but find the sequels after Queen of the Damned increasingly poor and badly written. I thought Interview With the Vampire was a very good film, although I prefer the book. I have yet to see an adaptation of Dracula that I really like.

[Godoggo]

I'd probably list Near Dark as my favorite, but I also enjoyed The Hunger, Fright Night, The Addiction, From Dusk till Dawn, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and The Lost Boys as well as others I am probably forgetting here.

[christine]

oh yeah I forgot abput The Addiction. Good call Godoggo!

[chipper]

Let The Right One In is surprisingly intelligent for a vampire movie made and shown in the era of sappy and glamorous portrayal of a classic terror entity.

The production design, location and camera angles told half the story. Scenes are framed with obvious simplicity and monotony which allows the the two characters to stand out. The emptiness around the characters in the scene gives the characters unfathomably deep. It gives you the certainty that there is a lot to the characters but intentionally deprive you of its history and details.

The simplicty also give you a chilling stillness, a silent chilling stillness... like death and nothingness forever taunting to envelope your life.

In scenes of Eli and Oskar, they almost always have no one else with them. Even the production design is bare, the sound minimum. It's a trick... a manipulation that forces you to concentrate on nothing else but them. It tells you that there is more to these two and it gives you the chance to understand it and find out what is below the surface.

And there is... something below the surface if you know how to look. Many other reviews say that the movie is about the purity of first love but if you look harder you will realize that love is only half the story. There is the other half - it is a story of selfishness and manipulatin, survival and instincts, humanity and animalism.


Synopsis

Oskar is a recluse and heavily bullied in school. When alone, he acts out violent revenge but never had the guts to do it. He meets a new neighbor, Eli. Like him, Eli is a recluse and lives with an older man. At first, Eli refuses to be friends with Oskar until the older man that takes care of Eli dies.

Oskar realizes that Eli and the unconventional reports of death in the town may be more connected than he thought.

[akatemple]

That was a great movie, one of the best Vampire films. The girl that is casted as Eli in the movie was so much better then the one in the remake.

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Lina Leandersson

[Nausicaä]

^ The girl in the remake was good also, just as good as each other really. Don't think the original actress was much better.

[ollanik]

I started watching 20 minutes,than i stopped,so i will watch it in few days

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