Let The Right One In Review (2008)

Stereotypically of a vampire film, Let the right one in is very dramatic and gory. Again stereotypically, there is a boy that is bullied and becomes the superior person towards the bully. When watching the film from the start, I genuinely did think that the film was going to be boring as it was in sub-titles and it took a while for some action to commence. An hour into the film, I began to start enjoying it as I knew the baseline of the story and could kind of predict what will happen to each character. The character Eli was a subversion as she was the last girl standing and the vampire. Not in many vampire films you find a girl having authority over the rest of the characters. Also what I liked about the film is that it was from a child's perspective as he is followed throughout his life from growing up on an estate being bullied (which is another subversion), to him over powering the bullies which the help from the girl who is a vampire. Oskar befriends Eli and they become the unlikely best of friends. There are a lot of dark scenes in which some viewers may find hard to watch. A lot of scenes which involve decapitation are present which links to the general stereotype of blood and gore.