Yes. I have a inclination towards things that are fictitious, the paranormal, and things that go bump or bite at night. Specifically vampires. Unfortunately, contemporary media and literature has failed to deliver something with actual substance for the past few years. Alright, well, I take that back...there have been a few exceptions for contemporary literature about vampires from the likes of Anne Rice, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Kostova, and Christopher Pike to name a few but movies? Sadly not many of the recent ones made the cut. So it came as no surprise that a compelling vampire movie came from elsewhere: Sweden, to be precise.
The movie is based on a novel, Låt den rätte komma written by Swedish author, John Ajvide Lindqvist. There are two American titles for this movie: Let the Right One In and Let Me In. I will let interested parties read up the rest on Wiki by following this link here.
Despite it presenting many of those cliche vampire stereotypes (ie: can't enter places without having permission, running water, nocturnal creatures, combusting when in contact with sunlight, etc.), the movie told a remarkably unique story about two children: one young human boy and the other a vampire girl who is clearly far older than she appears but still has this innocence to her. The storyline in this movie actually reminded me of what you often find in many memorable Japanese Anime movies (Anime fans, you will know exactly what I'm referring to when you watch this movie).
The other neat thing was that quality of the film at first makes it seem like it's an older movie, perhaps from the 80s, but clearly it's far more recent than that. Anyway, I highly recommend it. I am not sure which theaters this will be playing on, but it happened to be conveniently available on Netflix Instant Play which is where I watched it myself.
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Enjoy :)
The movie is based on a novel, Låt den rätte komma written by Swedish author, John Ajvide Lindqvist. There are two American titles for this movie: Let the Right One In and Let Me In. I will let interested parties read up the rest on Wiki by following this link here.
Despite it presenting many of those cliche vampire stereotypes (ie: can't enter places without having permission, running water, nocturnal creatures, combusting when in contact with sunlight, etc.), the movie told a remarkably unique story about two children: one young human boy and the other a vampire girl who is clearly far older than she appears but still has this innocence to her. The storyline in this movie actually reminded me of what you often find in many memorable Japanese Anime movies (Anime fans, you will know exactly what I'm referring to when you watch this movie).
The other neat thing was that quality of the film at first makes it seem like it's an older movie, perhaps from the 80s, but clearly it's far more recent than that. Anyway, I highly recommend it. I am not sure which theaters this will be playing on, but it happened to be conveniently available on Netflix Instant Play which is where I watched it myself.
[/Netflix spokesperson]
Enjoy :)
2 comments:
Somehow I lost interest in vampire/paranormal movies every since the film makers decided to try and scare people through a series of silence_followed_by_a_scream shots.
This sounds interesting. Let me try this out! And Anime movies, I could talk hours and hours on those!
Ah! I was wondering how come there was a disconnect :-) he he.
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