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movie review - Let The Right One In

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

This is a vampire movie that's actually good. No, I mean actually good. It's about a bullied boy living in a low-rent (or government housing) complex with people who care for him but are either elderly, worked off their feet, or otherwise unable to nurture him. His father's in a relationship with a man who doesn't want the boy in his father's life, and the bullies at school seem intent on actually killing him.

Along the way the boy notices a mysterious girl in the area. It turns out she's got a man-servant whom she showers with abuse. She's a vampire, scraping by in a civilization that's grown up around her over centuries and resentful of her lot in light. When her man-servant fails to secure blood from a hospital she has him drink acid but when even that fails to kill him she discards him.

Because she's got her eyes on a new toy, now.

Strongly recommended.