I have been reading nothing but great things about this film for a while now, and after viewing the trailer HERE, I am substantially more geeked out. Let the Right One In is a fresh off the vine vampire tale by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, based on the novel of the same name. It has already won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and the European Fantastic Film Festival's Méliès d'Or (Gold Medal) for the "Best European Fantastic Feature Film" not to mention a current 100% rating on rotten tomatoes. Heres the synopsis
12-year-old Oskar is a fragile boy living in a village just outside Stockholm. He is regularly bullied by his classmates during the day and, while he never strikes back, he spends the nights dreaming of revenge, rehearsing knife attacks outside his apartment complex. There he meets and befriends Eli, an apparently 12-year-old girl, who has recently moved in next door to Oskar with her father. Eli is a pale girl who only comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing temperatures.
Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of disappearances and gruesome murders. Victims are found with broken necks and drained of blood. Oskar fills a notebook with stories of the killings and realises that Eli is a vampire. Eli helps him to fight back against his bullies, while Oskar reawakens her hunger for love: Eli is trapped forever in a 12-year-old's body, with all the confused emotions of an adolescent. Despite the new beginning, Eli knows that she needs to keep on moving to survive.
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