The title intrigued me. And when I saw that the genre was horror, I knew had to watch it. I had no idea what it was about though. I’ve always wanted to watch horror stuff late at night to get the full effect, but I decided to just watch it on a Saturday afternoon. Procrastination no good no?

This movie is in Swedish. It has a very slow start, like one of those art central film art stuff. Ok now they call it OKTO right? Anyway, I’m not a fan of artsy-fartsy movies as some people have observed, from my choice of movies. In fact I hate ‘artistic’ stuff that try too hard to be artistic and have the message of ‘if you don’t understand my art, you’re not artistic’. But movies like Let the Right One In, goes beyond that. I mean there are no rules on ‘artistic films’. If a movie is good, its good.

Basically, Let the Right One In is a ‘romantic’ horror film about a bullied boy falling into a relationship with the vampire next door. Interesting right? There are some aspects of his life that made him kinda screwed up as it is. Then he met this Vampire girl. They started becoming friends and slowly they helped each other out on their individual needs and problems. There aren’t any twists and stuff, just good storytelling.

Other than the slightly slow pace, the movie is up there with the likes of El Orfanato, Exorcist, and other kick ass horror movies which I can’t remember. Haha.

Ok the stuff I LOVE about the movie.

• The awesome music. Totally suits the mood. Fantastic score.
• Eli. The Vampire. She’s a damn good actress. Comparable if not better than those other child actors like Dakota Fanning or that 6th Sense Kid who sees ghosts.
• The subtle hints of gore. It makes it even more scary.
• Sticking close to the vampire lore. With none of the fancy cool shits. Damn Buffy.
• Good cinematography. Good camerawork with little or no obvious in-the-face stupid scare tactics.

One really eye popping scene for me is how they answered the question of why Vampires can’t enter any house or room without being invited. Heard it first from Buffy. Damn Buffy. Then everywhere else. But I have no idea why they can’t go in. Is there an invisible wall? That would be lame. Will they just burn up and die? That’s also lame. But in Let the Right One In, it gives a perfect freaky answer. Watch it to find out OR… I’ll just say it here.

*SPOILER*
Eli (the vampire) told Oskar (the boy) she can only come in if he invites her. Oskar playfully refuses to invite Eli and waves her in. Eli, after a short pause, enters. Nothing out of the blue here. Then Eli’s face starts to go all screwed up. She looked incredibly sick. Then blood start to appear from her back. She began bleeding profusely. Blood oozes out from her eyes, nose, mouth, ears and every orifice of her body. Oskar got extremely freaked out at the distance Eli would go to prove her point to someone she likes. He cried, “Stop! Please Stop! You can come in!” And he hugged Eli.

Eli looked something like this.

The whole thing is just awesome.

Then of course. I love the last part. When Eli saves Oskar.

So you see, sometimes special effects overuse isn’t the way to go. Although there were some efx in Let the Right One In.

I’d give it a “Go watch it when you have the time to focus on the movie. Otherwise, don’t bother.” rating.

This is the concept photo/art of the Joker’s face. The finalised Heath Ledger version (right) was among the very first Joker pics released on the net. And we thought that was scary. I think people might piss in their pants if Joker had looked like the concept art.

Go to Cinematical for more. I got it from them anyways. However, the rest of the pics aren’t too scary.

There’s a movie called One Missed Call coming soon. I couldn’t help but find this poster disturbingly eerie. Stare at it long enough and you can see what the face is trying to tell you. Won’t spoil it for you here. Stare at it. Stare. Watch its trailer here.

And who can forget the very cool movie, Donnie Darko. This is the talking bunny who is so deliciously mysterious… and yes, disturbing. The head is actually the guy in the suit, if you’d seen the movie, you’ll know what’s going on.

I came home at 4 am last night and when I came to my staircase landing, my heart skipped a beat when I saw this ‘creature’ sitting by the railings.

And the best part was, I was thinking of the ghost stories told earlier… And the old SERAM movie came to mind.

what kind of sick fuck doll is this! Whoever put it there is a retard.

Excuse me for late reviews. I know this movie’s been out for quite some time. But this is for those who has yet to see it.

It is good.

I’ve never played the game, but the depictions of horror… the portrayal of evils… the imageries… all vivid and … effective.

I watched this at 11 pm when everyone’s asleep at night. And man, I love how scary it is.

Storyline’s well formed, characters are well acted, and there’s a level of fuckedupness that I just love in these kinda movies.

Kinda inspired me to do another short film. Now where’d I chuck that old idea of mine.

Oh, my sick mind thinks that them ‘ghouls’ of Silent Hill are hot. So are these fan people…. at some opening of the show. Heheh.
See? Must be them Japanese. Don’t worry. They look a lot scarier in the movie.