Let the right one in

[Tiggsy]

Having heard lots of good reviews about this.....and feeling like a change from the usual Yank blockbuster stuff, hired this twaddle last night.

Good grief, subtitles are ok when you are interested in whats going on but this just dragged....not to mention some (i assume) pretty vast skipping over parts of the book that might have shed some light on the... SPOLIERS - is she a boy/castration, was the old guy a kiddy fiddler sub plots (yeah....sounds like fun doesnt it!)

AVOID

Oh, also saw Surrogates with Bruce Willis - so st i cant even be bothered to review it.

[DrTre]

Best film I've seen in a long, long time.

ETA, girl, saw no reason to think otherwise? The brief glimpse was the kid getting his jollies if that's what you mean?
The fiddling bit was a bit too obtuse though, I agree. Really wasn't sure what the gist was on that score.
FETA, ah, I'm talking at cross purposes. I know in the book he and her were meant to have something like that but in the film there was no reference to it as far as I could see, I was meaning the boys father and the other bloke that turned up. I didn't really get that.

Edited by DrTre on Monday 18th January 17:31

[Tiggsy]

No...Eli was a boy. In the book "he" was a boy and they dragged it into the film...hence the "i'm not a girl" reference, the freaky castration scar shot, etc. Apparently the director even hired a butcher to castrate a live pig for a flash back scene but couldn't go through with it!

"she" was 100% not a girl....not that it made much difference. If you shack up with a 200 year old vampire i guess gender is the least of your worries!

[Don]

I liked the movie. The book is more harrowing - especially all the paedophilia stuff. Blurgh!

[varsas]

Another one for the 'it's great' side. Great tension and atmosphere, you really got a sense of the vampire'#s power....very disturbing and dark, like a proper vampire film should be.

[Tiggsy]

Give me Lost Boys or Blade any day! Heck....Twighlight was more entertaining than that!

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[Killer2005]

I'm in the not convinced side. I'd heard it was "2009's Pan's Labyrinth" and such like, but when I saw it I was disappointed. Granted it was ok but not great.

[DrTre]

Tiggsy said:

No...Eli was a boy. In the book "he" was a boy and they dragged it into the film...hence the "i'm not a girl" reference, the freaky castration scar shot, etc. Apparently the director even hired a butcher to castrate a live pig for a flash back scene but couldn't go through with it!

"she" was 100% not a girl....not that it made much difference. If you shack up with a 200 year old vampire i guess gender is the least of your worries!

I didn't know that. Cheers. I assumed the "i'm not a girl" was just saying "i'm undead"

Shame you didn't like it, I really, really did. Unusual and touching I thought.

[Tiggsy]

Having checked it out the book has a delightful vampire overlord paedo who castrates little boys, eats their bits and drinks their blood...or some such. Light hearted..it aint!

[DrTre]

Can see why the film wasn't a faithful adaptation of the book...

[Don]

Tiggsy said:

Give me Lost Boys or Blade any day! Heck....Twighlight was more entertaining than that!

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These were light entertainment...and Twilight? Noooo. Smell the teen angst. I wanted two hours of my life back after having made the mistake of seeing that!

I really enjoyed Let The Right One In. Flawed but properly dark, as a good vampire movie should be. It was probably right that it didn't follow the book absolutely - that was probably too dark for cinema audiences.

[Northern Munkee]

Watched it tonight it's slow not bad slow, bizarrely it reminded of Deer Hunter with the soundtrack and the slow downbeat observational style. A little quirky sort of David lynch style without being so over the top as lynch. Nice performances by the lad playing oskar. And because it was a grown up take ( peculiarly as it's about kids) on vampire genre unlike twilight or true blood but off beat I was compelled to watch.

Really good, worth the purchase.