Halloween Week: Scary movie
Of course we had to see a scary movie during Halloween week, so when we saw that the International Cinema at BYU was showing Låt den rätte komma inn (or in English, Let The Right One In) we jumped at the chance to see it. Briefly, it's a Swedish vampire movie featuring twelve year-olds. Not so briefly, it was an amazing film about love, loyalty and free will. I don't want to give too much away, but it has been a long time since I've been so engaged by a film. The characters were so well-played and the story line was so compelling that I often forgot it was a film about vampires.
Don't get me wrong: there were freaky vampire skillz, gory deaths, gratuitous blood shed and the occasional spontaneous combustion - in short all the ingredients for Halloween fun. But I wouldn't recommend for your annual Halloween shriek-fest. Not unless you want to spend the next couple of hours in quiet contemplation of selfless love and moral agency.
As for me, I went home and had a really intense dream about vampires wanting to kill me, but not until I sympathized with them to the point of wanting my own death for their benefit.
Wait.
Isn't that Stockholm syndrome?
It was a really good movie. Unsettling...
ReplyDeleteA U.S. remake is already in the works. I'm a bit skeptical that an American version of a Vampire movie that has a love story at its heart will be substantially different from Twilight though. And that would be really sad... as Let the Right One In is, in many ways, the anti-Twilight. Hmmm...
Sounds like an interesting movie! Though, I don't think I would want to see the U.S. version.
ReplyDeleteTold you so;)
ReplyDeleteJeremy
Wow. Sounds like it was awesome! i'm sad we missed it. :P
ReplyDeleteAnybody near BYU who'd like to see it still has a chance as there are still three more showings between tonight and tomorrow (30th and 31st). It's free!
ReplyDeleteJust be warned that it's not a kids movie (no Wyatt, Stepper!), though BYU helpfully lightly edits the worst bits. A good thing, for us, or we wouldn't have seen it.
Great movie. One of the best of its genre the last couple of years.
ReplyDeleteSweden can their movies:)