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Let the Right One In - modern classic or over-hyped horror? 10:02pm on 07 Apr 2009 In short, I really really enjoyed it. I was the only one in our group of four who'd already read the book but we all enjoyed it equally. What was interesting was that the little bullied boy Oskar was completely different from the one I had imagined when reading - but I actually preferred the one in the film to the one I had in my head. Surely that's a rarity.

The film was really nicely paced, very very pretty (although sometimes a shot of spooky trees could have been a few seconds shorter - but that's just my MTV brain speaking) and the music was minimal in all the right places and swelled in all the right places. I definitely agree about the subtle use of special effects too - one character's slightly too graceful dismount from the top of a climbing frame was very nicely done.

As mentioned already, the treatment of vampires was really interesting. Almost binary. Eli is viewed as 'just a monster' when seen by other characters but is a fully-rounded character when seen from Oskar's point of view.

I think it's that sort of thing that breaks this film out from being 'just a vampire movie' in my opinion. For all its haunting, scary or monstrous moments, the film is simply about the relationship between Oskar and Eli.

I really like this film but, perhaps more tellingly, so did my less-vampire fanatical other half!

9/10

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