Let The Right One In (2008) 9/10

Starring : Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Director : Tomas Alfredson
Running Time : 110 mins

A young boy named Oskar (Hedebrant), a boy with no real friends and who is constantly bullied at school, makes friends with Eli (Leandersson), the strange girl who has moved in next door to him, but Eli has a secret that she wants to keep from Oskar – that she is actually a vampire - and she doesn't want this fact to effect her newfound friendship.

This Swedish horror focuses far more on the relationship between Oskar and Eli than on outright scares, which actually makes the few scares all the more effective. The swimming pool scene is particularly effective, with it's lack of soundtrack music and it's well paced violence, and it's nice that Eli isn't forced as a character to change who she is to make the movie more acceptable.

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