It took me a while to get around to it, but I finally watched "Let the Right One In"-the enormously acclaimed Swedish vampire film from 2008-and I have to say....it's so good that I can't help but be angry at it. I am so jealous of John Lindqvist-the author whose book "Let the Right One In" is based on, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Basically, what he did was take the most heartwarming, sad story set-up he could come up with: a young, emotionally troubled, lonely boy meets a lonely, emotionally troubled girl with a terrible illness who lives with a lonely old man, who goes to great personal risk to keep the terrible illness from killing her. Except replace "with a terrible illness" with "who is a vampire". So now you have the saddest storyline married to the coolest monster (and yes, vampires are awesome. I don't care what cynical anti-vampire mindset the Twilight era has instilled in you) with a gorgeous snowy Sweden as your setting; yeah, I'm really, really jealous of whoever came up with this idea.
From what I've heard, the remake directed by Matt Reeves (the guy behind "Cloverfield", which I really liked) is actually really good too, something uncommon for American remakes of foreign horror films (or American remakes of any horror films, for that matter). So yeah, I guess I'm saying I want to see that too, although I might just end up hating it for how good it is.
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