Let the Right One In(Låt den rätte komma in)

Craving, hostility, and solitude – the themes and metaphors that stem from the vampire myth are transmuted and crystallised in this freezing-cold, grisly Swedish nightmare. Doubling up as a teen romance story and a bully-victim revenge fantasy, Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s bestseller is a painful portrayal of two desperate souls – a bullied boy and an ageless vampire stuck in a girlish body – both baying for blood, and yearning for connection. Alluding to the tradition that a vampire cannot enter a home uninvited, this spectrally beautiful film gives a canny amalgamation of cool teenage angst, and warm hopes of love and commitment.