Vampire movies are the in thing right now. Twilight, for example. Teenage girls up and down the land are currently squeaking in delight as the slab-faced Robert Pattinson has a strangely chaste romance with some 14yr old girl involving lots of meaningful looks and cries of “Don’t do that! I might do a sex wee bite you in the neck!” Don’t bother watching the film, read the script instead.
Let The Right One In is cut from very different cloth. The simplest way to describe it would be a film that’s based around a more gothy/emo version of Kirsten Dunst’s Claudia from Interview With a Vampire. If Anne Rice’s novel had been adapted by a respected European director instead of Neil Jordan, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt then the result would be something very much like Let The Right One In.
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