Let the Right One In (2008)

Name: Let the Right One In
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Released: 2008-10-24

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A boy practices stabbing a tree with a knife, rehearsing revenge against the classmates who torment him, in the snow outside a housing block in suburban Stockholm. A girl moves in next door, and she only ever appears after dark.

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) follows Oskar, a bullied twelve-year-old, as he grows close to Eli, the strange child who has taken the apartment beside his. She walks barefoot in the cold and lives with a man who slips out at night to slaughter strangers. Oskar does not ask many questions. He has found someone who finally listens to him.

Tomas Alfredson directed the film from John Ajvide Lindqvist's own screenplay, adapting his novel. The Swedish winter is shot in grey, flat light by Hoyte van Hoytema, turning the courtyard between the apartment blocks into a space as cold and isolated as the children themselves.

Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson play Oskar and Eli with a stillness that makes the violence around them land harder. The film treats bullying and bloodshed as two sides of the same ordinary cruelty, and finds real tenderness in the bond between these two outsiders in a world that offers them nothing.

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Blu-rayMagnolia Home EntUPC 0876964001793

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About the film

Eli is 12 years old. She's been 12 for over 200 years, and she just moved in next door.

Directed by: Tomas Alfredson
Runtime: 115 minutes
Released: October 24, 2008
Certification: R
Country: Germany, Sweden
Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist

More credits

Genres: Horror, Drama
Language: Spanish, Swedish
Origin: SE
Studios: EFTI, Bavaria Film International, Sandrew Metronome Sverige, Filmpool Nord, SVT, WAG, Fido Film, Chimney Sweden
Written by: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Produced by: John Nordling, Carl Molinder
Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema
Music: Johan Söderqvist
Also starring: Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahm, Karl-Robert Lindgren, Anders T. Peedu
Budget: $4,000,000
Box office: $10,785,801