Let the Right One In

US official website : http://www.lettherightoneinmovie.com/
SE official website : http://www.latdenrattekommain.se/
IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Right_One_In_(film)
Let the Right One In : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Right_One_In


Let the Right One In (Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The film is based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist and tells the story of a 12-year-old boy's friendship with a vampire girl. The film has won numerous awards including the "Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature" at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation's 2008 Méliès d'Or (Golden Méliès) for the "Best European Fantastic Feature Film".

Plot

Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Let The Right One In is a story both violent and highly romantic, set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982.

Cast

Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar
Lina Leandersson as Eli
Per Ragnar as Håkan
Henrik Dahl as Erik
Karin Bergquist as Yvonne
Peter Carlberg as Lacke
Ika Nord as Virginia
Mikael Rahm as Jocke
Karl-Robert Lindgren as Gösta (as Karl Robert Lindgren)
Anders T. Peedu as Morgan (as Anders Peedu)
Pale Olofsson as Larry (as Paul Olofsson)
Cayetano Ruiz as Magister Avila
Patrik Rydmark as Conny
Johan Sömnes as Andreas
Mikael Erhardsson as Martin

Release

Let the Right One In received its first performance at the Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden on 26 January 2008 where Alfredson won the Festival's Nordic Film Prize. It subsequently played at several other film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on 24 April 2008 where it won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, the Edinburgh Film Festival on 25 Jun 2008 where it won the Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award, and the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland on 3 July 2008 where it won the Méliès d'Argent (Silver Méliès). It is scheduled for general release on 24 October 2008 in both Sweden and the United States where it received an R rating for "for some bloody violence including disturbing images, brief nudity and language".

Reception

Let the Right One In has received almost universal critical acclaim. As of 21 October 2008, the film has a 100% "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Reviewers have commented on the beautiful cinematography and its quiet, restrained approach to the sometimes bloody and violent subject matter. One negative comment was made by Marlow Stern of the Manhattan Movie Magazine who thought that the film's ending was overkill while KJ Doughton of Film Threat thought the visuals in the ending were fresh and inventive and would be talked about for years to come.

Awards

Alfredson won the Göteborg International Film Festival's Nordic Film Prize as director of Let the Right One In on the grounds that he "succeeds to transform a vampire movie to a truly original, touching, amusing and heart-warming story about friendship and marginalisation". In awarding the film the "Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature", the top award at the Tribeca Film Festival, the jury commented that the film was a "mesmerizing exploration of loneliness and alienation through masterful reexamination of the vampire myth". The film also won the Méliès d'Argent (Silver Méliès) at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) and went on to win the Méliès d'Or (Golden Méliès) for the "Best European Fantastic Feature Film", awarded by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation of which NIFFF is a part. Other awards include the first Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

- Nordic Film Prize for Tomas Alfredson at the 31st Göteborg International Film Festival
- Kodak Nordic Vision Award for Hoyte van Hoytema's camera work at the 31st Göteborg International Film Festival
- Founders Award for "Best Narrative Feature" at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
- Méliès d'Argent at the 2008 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
- 2008 Méliès d'Or for "Best European Fantastic Feature Film", awarded by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federatio
- Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award 2008
- "Best Film" at the 2008 Fantasia Festival
- "Best Director" for Tomas Alfredson at the 2008 Fantasia Festival
- "Best Photography" for Hoyte van Hoytema at the 2008 Fantasia Festival
- "Best Horror Feature" at Fantastic Fest 2008

Remake

Even before Let the Right One In was released in US cinemas, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves had signed to write and direct an English language remake for Overture Films and Hammer Films. Hammer Films acquired the remake rights at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and Overture films plans to release the film in 2009. Alfredson has been reported as saying that he is not happy that the film is being remade, saying that "Remakes should be made of movies that aren’t very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong" and expressing concern that the end result would be too mainstream

Let the Right One In Trailer


Let the Right One In Red Band Trailer


This post has been edited by Calvin871989: Jul 27 2010, 12:39 AM

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13792

wow seems good, anyone watched this?

- Remakes should be made of movies that aren’t very good, that gives you the chance to fix whatever has gone wrong. I’m very proud of my movie and think it’s great, but the Americans might be of an other opinion. The saddest thing for me would be to see that beautiful story made into something mainstream.

QFT!

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14350

chloe moretz hhrrm... and cloverfield's director, it has to be good, no?

Felt the original should be better - the mood sets it right. Not sure for the remake though...

You know, if they are going to make a remake with the exact same scenes, tone and style, why don't they just dub the original into English?

Oh but Chloe Moretz with her kit off?

BTW, I would really really love to be able to find a DVD of the original...

Try Amazon

just watched this yesterday but find it so-so only. Maybe it is due to the hype that I have been reading about. Maybe cause I don't really like dramas. It still is a watchable movie, just not as great as the fans described.

It still can be considered good movie with all the lousy horror movies coming out from hollywood recently. Recommended to those who like their horror in drama form instead of action form.

I give it 6/10.

I wonder if we can discuss spoilers here...cause I want to discuss about some of the plots in this movie.

the region 2 DVD released by Momentum Pictures has the english theatrical subtitled version.

& here is trailer 2: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/26/movie-...er-2-let-me-in/