let the right one in
“Let the Right One In” is the best vampire movie, ever, in all the history of vampire movies. Period. What more could you possibly need to know? Go. Now. Netflix it, rent it, buy a copy, whatever. Watch this movie.
And don’t, DON’T, watch the dubbed version. Go into the ’set up’ menu on your DVD and be sure to turn OFF the awful, terrible, soul numbing dubbing, and turn ON the English subtitles. You will want to hear the amazing actor’s voices, not the squeaky emotionless dubs, even if you have no idea what the actors are saying (it’s in Swedish). Trust me on this. And if you like vampire stories, or even if you don’t, if you just like fascinating, character driven, quiet, creepy stories—or hell, if you just love stellar filmmaking, you will be mesmerized and moved by this deeply interesting film.
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We had dinner a few months ago with some NYC friends who are both foreign language professors, and one of their guests was talking about this movie. Only he couldn’t remember the preposition in the title, so he went around and around saying, “Let the right one out? Let the right one through?” Didn’t help that he’d had several glasses of wine…
Let the Right One In-between. Let the Right One Underneath. Let the Right One Die in a Flaming Vat of Boiling Oil. Oh, no, that’s a different movie…