Let the Right One In

[Dartful Dodger]

My girlfriend is a Europhile so we end up alternating between European movies with English subtitles and explosive action movies.

The movie is about a 12 year old boy living in the projects that gets bullied at school and meets a vampire whose pretending to be 12 year old girl.

I've see a lot of European movies that got great reviews and ended up being Eurosnob crap, but this is actually a good movie. 

If you're thinking about seeing this movie you should avoid reading the reviews about it.

The reviewers are snobs and they are giving it great reviews just to show how much class they have, but they’ll also want to prove how smart they are by ruining the plot twists of the movie with their interpretation of what's happening.

It’s not gory(relative to most modern movies) and it’s not nightmarishly scary. It’s just a cute story that has the right amount of creepy bits in it.

[shardian]

I might have to look in on this one.

There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.

[shmokes]

I've been recommending Let the Right One In for weeks to anybody who will listen to me.  It's seriously good.  Probably the best vampire movie ever made.  BTW, contrary to what Dartful said in his synopsis, I don't think she's pretending to be 12.  I think it's more complicated than that.  But y'all will have to see it for yourselves to know what I'm talking about.  It's only in limited release, so there are likely no theaters in your city playing it, but there's a decent DVD screener rip floating around the torrent networks.

BTW, to give you an idea of how good this movie is, it's only in limited release and already there's a Hollywood remake in the works.      The guy who directed Cloverfield is making an American Let The Right One In, to be released in 2010, I think.


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[Ummon]

I might have to look in on this one.

There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.

AHH. You just ruined it for me. I had absolutely no idea what it was about.

[shardian]

I might have to look in on this one.
There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.

AHH. You just ruined it for me. I had absolutely no idea what it was about.

Yeah, cause a movie called Pan's Labyrinth WON'T have magical creatures in it.    

He recently did The Orphanage which is creepy as hell, too.  The scene with the psychic almost had me trembling.

The beer bottle scene really freaked my wife out. That's all I'll say about that.

Anyways, I have briefly heard about The Orphanage, but not too much. I think I will have to get both of these movies.

[ChadTower]

The movie is about a 12 year old boy living in the projects that gets bullied at school and meets a vampire whose pretending to be 12 year old girl in his MySpace profile.

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[Grasshopper]

I might have to look in on this one.

There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.

AHH. You just ruined it for me. I had absolutely no idea what it was about.

Bear in mind that, despite the magical creatures, Pan's Labyrinth is definitely not a movie for kids. It is excellent though. Well worth watching.

[shardian]

Pan's Labyrinth is definitely not a movie for kids.

That cannot be stressed enough! That movie is ---smurfing--- brutal.

[SavannahLion]

BTW, to give you an idea of how good this movie is, it's only in limited release and already there's a Hollywood remake in the works.      The guy who directed Cloverfield is making an American Let The Right One In, to be released in 2010, I think.

I probably won't see the Hollywood version then. Cloverfield was just too... um... I don't really have any way to describe it. It was a bit of a let down I guess. The marketing worked beautifully for Blair Witch, it was kind of a boner with Cloverfield.

[web.geek]

Pan's Labyrinth is definitely not a movie for kids.

That cannot be stressed enough! That movie is ---smurfing--- brutal.

Uhmm...it was rated R, right?

[shmokes]

Guillermo Del Toro didn't write or direct The Orphanage.  He's just a producer on it.  After Pan's Labyrinth he did Hellboy II and is now writing/directing The Hobbit.

[shardian]

Uhmm...it was rated R, right?

Yes it is R, but the violence in it is realistically brutal. Like I said, a certain scene in the movie involving a bottle stuck with my wife and has given her nightmares.

[SirPeale]

I finally checked this out.  I thought it was good.  The end scene @ the pool was...damn.

Wife thought it could have been better.  It didn't explain a lot, just sort of plopped you down in the middle.

[crashwg]

Just finished the movie.  I'd give it a solid 8.  Pretty good flick.

[FrizzleFried]

Subtitled?  English?  Dubbed?

I hate subtitles... I just can't read fast enough and enjoy the visuals at the same time...

...the last subbed film I watched was "My Life as a Dog"...

[shmokes]

Don't be surprised if your rating goes up.  It's a movie that leaves you thinking about it.  More and more I think of how brilliantly various aspects were handled.  For example:  (highlight to see spoiler)

The girl tells the kid that she really is twelve, but has been twelve for a very long time.  And then they just leave it at that.  They don't explain it to you.  But think about how profound that is.  She may be a hundred years old, and she may have learned a lot about many things, such as how to obtain money.  But she never developed sexually.  After all that time she doesn't can't understand romantic attraction.  In so many ways she is still a twelve year old in spite of her true age, and it goes way beyond simply looking like a twelve year old.  

[Dartful Dodger]

Spoiler response to point out another aspect:




When the girl says "what if I'm not a girl" the kid is thinking she might actually be a boy.

The boy confirms to himself and the viewer that she is a female by sneaking a glimps of her naked.