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DVD Release Date: 3/10/2009
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A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy's wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing temperatures.
Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. One man is found tied to a tree, another frozen in the lake, a woman bitten in the neck. Blood seems to be the common denominator – and for an introverted boy like Oskar, who is fascinated by gruesome stories, it doesn't take long before he figures out that Eli is a vampire. But by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar and Eli, and she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors. Oskar becomes increasingly aware of the tragic, inhuman dimension of Eli's plight, but cannot bring himself to forsake her. Frozen forever in a twelve-year-old's body, with all the burgeoning feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent, Eli knows that she can only continue to live if she keeps on moving. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can ...
Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing and darkly atmospheric, yet poetic and unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. The feature is based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
 
Director Tomas Alfredson
Screenplay John Ajvide Lindqvist
Producers John Nordling
Carl Molinder
Line Producer Frida Asp
Production Manager Mia Ericsson Degerlund
DP Hoyte van Hoytema nsc, fsf
Editors Dino Jonsäter
Tomas Alfredson
Production Design Eva Norén
Costumes & Make-Up Maria Strid
Composer Johan Söderqvist
Oskar Kåre Hedebrant
Eli Lina Leandersson
Håkan Per Ragnar
Erik Henrik Dahl
Yvonne Karin Bergquist
Lacke Peter Carlberg
Virginia Ika Nord
Jocke Mikael Rahm
Gösta Karl-Robert Lindgren
Morgan Anders T Peedu
Larry Pale Olofsson
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“THIS IS A VAMPIRE MOVIE LIKE NO OTHER. MESMERIZING.” – David Ansen, Newsweek
“A SPECTACULARLY MOVING AND ELEGANT FILM THAT IS, AT THIS POINT, THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR.” – John Anderson, Washington Post
“ONE OF THE YEAR’S VERY BEST MOVIES. A FUNNY, HAUNTING DAZZLER.” – John Powers, Vogue
“DISCRIMINATING HORROR-MOVIE FANS REJOICE – THIS IS THE FINEST HORROR PICTURE IN YEARS. Remarkable, as raw and frightening as it is tender and intelligent.” – Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix
“A SPECTRALLY BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE FILM THAT’S MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS CHILLS AND ESTIMABLE TECHNIQUE. Director Alfredson has an elevated sense of visual beauty, but he knows how to deliver the splattery goods.” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times
“**** THE FILM IS TERRIFIC. THIS IS ONE OF THE REAL FINDS OF 2008.” – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“**** AN UNFORGETTABLE, ATMOSPHERIC LOVE STORY FULL OF STUNNING IMAGERY. The kids are nothing short of amazing. THIS IS ONE ORIGINAL THAT CAN’T BE IMPROVED.” – Glenn Whipp, LA Daily News
“VERY FINE AND VERY FRIGHTENING. THIS FILM IS UP THERE WITH THE BLOODSUCKING CLASSICS.” – Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
“BEST. VAMPIRE MOVIE. EVER.” – Emmett Williams, Washington Examiner
“VAMPIRE LORE RARELY COMES ACROSS AS INSPIRED AND ALIVE AS IT DOES IN THIS EXQUISITELY CRAFTED FILM. As far as a Hollywood remake – THERE’S SIMPLY NO ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT WITH THIS ONE.” – Laura Kern, Film Comment
“IT’S A WINNER! The two leads are dynamite and director Alfredson knows how to pin you to your seat. SEE IT NOW BEFORE A HOLLYWOOD REMAKE RUINS IT.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“***** Just when you thought every ounce of metaphor and meaning had been wrung from the vampire movie, it infuses fresh blood into the genre.” – David Fear, Time Out NY
“EXHILARATING! A RARE SUSPENSEFUL HORROR FILM.” – Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
“A KNOCK OUT – ONE OF THE BEST VAMPIRE MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. This movie is the real deal.” – Gary Cogill, WFAA Dallas
“A DELIGHTFUL MIX OF HIGH AND LOW.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“GORGEOUS AND COMPELLING.”- Carina Chocano, LA Times
“**** ‘Twilight’ may get more attention, but this vampire tale is one you won’t want to overlook.” – Elizabeth Weitzman, NY Daily News
“IT’S HARD TO SEE HOW A DIFFERENT PRODUCTION TEAM COULD IMPROVE UPON THESE RESULTS.” – Reyhan Harmanci, SF Chronicle
“A BEAUTIFUL BROODING VAMPIRE TALE.” – Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
“MAYBE ONE OF THE BEST VAMPIRE STORIES PUT TO FILM SINCE MURNAU’S ‘NOSFERATU’. There hasn’t been an American genre film this good in quite some time.” – Paul Constant, The Stranger
“ONE OF THE GREAT HORROR FILMS OF RECENT YEARS. The quiet drama and muted score unsettle the viewer’s mind much as Kubrick did in ‘The Shining’.” – Mike Russell, The Oregonian
“ONE OF THE MOST WELCOME SURPRISES OF THE YEAR. Director Alfredson breathes so much life into the stagnant genre that it’s impossible to pigeonhole the film as horror.” – Ap Kryza, Willamette Week
"As delicate, haunting and poetic a film as you're ever bound to see. A chilling fairy tale," - Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Devil's Backbone)
“A CHILLER IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. Authentically moving and scary.” – Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun
“***** Seeing this film will become a Valentine’s Day tradition for Goth couples.” – Jessica Novak, Baltimore Examiner
“**** BOTH HAUNTING AND HAUNTED, FAR ABOVE THE CLICHES OF HORROR TALES.” – Geoff Berkshire, Metromix
“**** IT’S A BEAUTIFUL HORROR FILM, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, A BEAUTIFUL FILM. Summing it up as a tween vampire romance does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gemlike bloodstone of a film.” – Marc Salov, Austin Chronicle
“**** IT’S MUCH MORE THAN A HORROR MOVIE.” – Charles Ealy, Austin American-Statesman
“**** AMONG THE BEST OF THE YEAR AND ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL AND HAUNTING VAMPIRE FILMS EVER MADE.” – Mike Clark, Gwinnett Daily Post
“IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE THAT ‘TWILIGHT’ WILL BE BETTER THAN THIS TERRIFIC VAMPIRE FILM.” – Anders Wright, San Diego City Beat
“A GENRE MASTERPIECE. Absolutely one of the most brilliant narratives I’ve had the pleasure to watch in the last decade. Intensely emotional, the film works on just so many levels.” – Joseph B. Mauceri, Fears Magazine
“Possibly one of the best vampire movies of the last 20 years.” – Edward Douglas, Shock Till You Drop.com
“QUITE EASILY THE MOST COMPELLING NEW ENTRY IN VAMPIRE MYTHOS IN AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER.” – Todd Brown, Twitch.com
“ONE OF THE STANDOUT ORIGINALS OF 2008. Easily the most strikingly unusual vampire pic that anyone’s seen in I don’t know how long.” – Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
“Vampire films don’t get more soulful than ‘Let the Right One In’.” – Karen Durbin, Elle
“A CLASSIC-IN-THE-MAKING THAT WILL BE TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS TO COME. A sensationally compelling genre-bending chiller.” – KJ Doughton, Film Threat
“A BRILLIANT FILM.” – Luke Y. Thompson, LA Weekly
“SENSATIONAL! Director Alfredson does a great job of sinking new fangs into familiar vampire elements. The horror elements kick ass.” – Dennis Dermody, Paper
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