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Matt Reeves writes and directs this vampiric coming-of-age romance based on the Swedish novel 'Let the Right One In' by John Ajvide Lindqvist and Tomas Alfredson's 2008 Swedish-language film adaptation. Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as Owen, a solitary 12-year-old in 1980s New Mexico who is continually tormented by a gang of bullies. When the enigmatic Abby (Chloe Moretz) moves in next door, the two form an unlikely friendship that will change Owen's life forever as it emerges that Abby is a 200-year-old vampire, frozen in childhood and condemned to live on a diet of fresh human blood. With Abby on his side, Owen is finally able to face up to the bullies - but Abby's unquenchable thirst for blood gives rise to a fresh set of problems.
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Let Me In blends the innocent face of Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) with the darkness of vampirism. A young boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road) has troubles at home (his parents are divorcing) and at school (bullies pick on him mercilessly). But when a mysterious girl named Abby (Moretz) moves in next door, Owen hopes he's found a friend, even though she smells a little strange. Unfortunately, his new friend needs blood to live, and the man who seems to be her father (Richard Jenkins, Six Feet Under) goes out to drain local residents to feed her. But even as Owen starts to suspect something is wrong, having a real friend might just matter more. Because the Swedish film adaptation of the novel Let the Right One In (on which Let Me In is based) was surprisingly popular and critically acclaimed, it's going to be hard for Let Me In to avoid comparisons. Surprisingly, it retains much of the flavor and spirit of the original. It's not as understated--this is an American movie, after all--and some of the creepiness is lost along with that subtlety. Despite that, Let Me In has its own spookiness and the performances (including Elias Koteas, Zodiac, as a local policeman) are strong. Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield). --Bret Fetzer
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- Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 2.40:1
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Package Dimensions : 17.1 x 13.6 x 1.7 cm; 80 g
- Manufacturer reference : 5051429702209
- Media Format : PAL, Blu-ray
- Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
- Release date : 14 Mar. 2011
- Actors : Chloe Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins
- Studio : Icon Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B004DCAD9E
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 15,137 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
- 1,384 in Horror (DVD & Blu-ray)
- 5,601 in Blu-ray
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2010Seen this at the cinema DVD pre-ordered. I first heard about this film when I was reading Chloe Moretz's wikipedia profile to see what other films she was doing as she was in the best film I have seen in years (Kick-Ass). I followed the link to Let Me In, watched the trailer and thought 'I have to see this'. The acting by both kids was second to none and what I like most about this film is the way it leaves you at the end - it is a happy ending and you are happy that the two love each other but you know he will probably have to go out and kill people to keep her alive - kind of a twisted sort of horror film in that sense. Can't wait to see it again.
With regards the comparisons to the Swedish film (which I havn't seen), I am glad the negative youtube reviews below the Let Me In trailer failed to put me off seeing this. The best film reviewers know that this film is brilliant on its own, so listen to these reviewers. Infact most of the top reviewers go as far to say its better than the original. For that reason I still refuse to watch the original. Why? Look at the facts - both films are based on the novel and there are apparently only a few slight differences between the 2 films. So do I want to see a film that is more or less the same as this and have to endure reading subtitles. NO!
Buy this - it is a brilliant film in its own right
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 January 2011'Let Me In' is a 2010 American drama/horror film directed by Matt Reeves. It is based on the 2008 Swedish film 'Let the Right One In' and the novel of the same name.
It tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in New Mexico in the early 1980s.
In 1983 in Los Alamos, a police detective (Elias Koteas) enters the hospital room of a disfigured man and tells him that he will catch whoever else is in league with him, but is then called out to take a phone call. While he is on the phone, a scream is heard, and the detective finds the suspect has fallen out of the window to his death. This sets the tone to a very gritty and grown up alternative to 'Twilight'.
Flashback to two weeks earlier, Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee from 'The road') is a very unhappy and lonely 12-year-old child, who is neglected by his divorcing parents and continually harassed by cruel bullies. While peering at neighbors from his bedroom window, he notices a girl (Chloë Moretz, the potty-mouthed 'Hit-Girl' from 'Kickass'), and a man who appears to be her father, who move in next door.
One evening, the girl starts a conversation with Owen. Her name is revealed to be Abby, who claims to be 12 years old. Abby tells Owen that they cannot be friends, but regardless Abby and Owen grow closer, seeing each other at night.
Meanwhile, Abby's "father" goes out nightly to kill local residents to acquire blood for the vampiric Abby. Abby continues developing her relationship with Owen and tween love blossoms. Unlike relative wimp Edward Cullen, Abby can be vicious, e.g. as she deals with Owen's bullies and reveals herself to him as a vamp.
Can this forbidden love survive.....? That much would be telling too much.
The two leads are very, very good, especially considering how old they are in real life (surely Chloe Moretz must be hacked off for being too young to legally see her last two films..?).
I suppose that ultimately, the message here is that everyone can find true love. This film is in part scary, shocking, tender and very different to the current vamp stable out there. Oh, and it has a great 80s soundtrack.
Recommended.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2011I am not a fan of horror films,for the simple reason they seem to have forgotten how to make them these days.Everything is done to a formula to appeal to the target audience,originality has gone out ot the window,and been replaced by CGI gore,which they believe will make up for the fact that what your watching isnt actually scary,just tired,worn out and lame.So I wasnt expecting that much from this film,Id had it months and not gotten round to watching it.So imagine my surprise when I finally did play it,and found it to be one of the most astounding films Ive seen for a long,long time.
The story revolves around the friendship between two young children,Owen(Kodi Smit-McPhee)who is relentlessy bullied at school and very isolated,and the barefoot and mysterious Abby(Chloe Grace Moretz),who has just moved in next door.Their strange,but growing friendship,is played out against the backdrop of a series of violent murders in the area.It gripped me from the word go and pulled me into the story,which is cleverly multi layered and has a modern day,creepy,gothic atmosphere about it.You find yourself becoming mesmerised as events unfold,and things get more and more grizzly,and emotionally intense.
This is the way I wish all horror films could be made,its not made by numbers,or to fit a demographic,it has genuine passion and feeling.What makes it even more incredible in my book,is that it comes from the same director(Matt Reeves)who made Cloverfield.A film I absolutely hated,and still regard as a triumph of style over substance,but hats off to him for this one,its an incredible film in every way.
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- EhkzuReviewed in the United States on 25 December 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars No spoilers review + Spoilers review for those who've seen "Let the Right One In"
No-spoilers review of "Let me In":
I'm going to help you decide whether you want to get this DVD, regardless of what I think of it. I will do so without telling you what happens.
I recommended this to a friend at church in passing. Later he saw my wife and asked her what it was about. She said "It's a vampire movie." He said "That's all I need to know."
This guy is a college professor, so he's pretty smart--and statistically he'd probably be right, given what most "vampire movies" are like. And yes, it is a vampire movie. But it's so different from most other vampire movies that leaving it at that is really misleading.
For one thing, most vampire movies are either romantic PG-13 Romeo and Julietty things aimed at 15 year old girls (of all ages), or blood-drenched R-rated splatterfests aimed at teenaged boys (of all ages).
This is neither. Hence the disgusted one-star reviews here by folks looking for one or the other--and who always assume the director was trying to make one or the other but was just too dumb to do so. Pretty funny, really--the arrogance of the mediocre.
Another source of misleadingment is the fact that this stars the same actress who played Hit Girl in "Kick-Ass (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)", Chloë Grace Moretz. In that film she plays an ultraviolent vigilante psycho killer (and does most of her own stunts BTW). But in "Hugo," which came out recently, she plays a bookish, sunny, nonviolent girl. It's called acting. And Moretz has no interest in being typecast, so you can't use her being in a movie to conclude anything about a movie except that it will probably be different from the normal fare in some way. You can expect her to do her own stunts mostly--she trained for six months for her role in "Kickass" and now may be physically the strongest, most agile actress in her age range.
She is one reason to see "Let me in." She and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit are both serious about acting. And both, in their early teens, are doing mostly adult-oriented movies. Moretz has the added advantage of being destined to be the next Scarlett Johansson in a number of ways--looks, intelligence, gravitas and an arresting appearance--not just pretty.
I think Moretz wanted this role because it gave her the opportunity to do a layered performance. There's a scene where her character says "I'm stronger than you think I am." The other teen actresses who auditioned for the role said it as a brag, smiling smugly as they did so. Moretz stated it matter-of-factly, as a piece of information Owen needed to know, but with a whiff of great sadness, since that strength is part and parcel of what's different about her that means she will never be able to have a normal life. To grow up. To have a family. To not have to live on the run forever. So she's not bragging about her strength, because she's hundreds of years past thinking it was Kool--if she ever did.
Moretz put something into the character all those other beautiful, trained, skilled actresses didn't. She had a 360° view of Abby, while the others did not.
You'll like this movie if you like what Moretz liked about the script, the project. It's almost like a cross between one of those Sundance Festival movies and a Hollywood movie. It has the feel of a European art film with just a tad more vividness--a bit sparklier special effects, music, high-voltage talent (like the great character actor Richard Jenkins as Abby's gofer).
That's no surprise because it's adapted from the Swedish novel "Let the Right One In: A Novel (Paperback) and the Swedish movie Let The Right One In.
So why not just see the original movie? Well, as it happens, I did see it first--and loved it. And not just me. The Rottentomatoes website aggregates critics' reviews and ratings, and the average of the 166 reviews it lists was a whopping 98%, while 44,000 viewers rated it an average of 90%. For "Let Me In" 205 critics gave it an average rating of a still very respectable 89% while 55,000 site viewers gave it 74%.
I think the lower average audience rating for "Let Me In" stemmed from misplaced loyalty to "Let the right One In." As if you have to choose one or the other. Team Abby or Team Eli. I don't know why this is, though. I've seen at least a dozen versions of Hamlet, and many bring something unique to the original play. Same here. An expert film critic could list a dozen aspects to each film that are better than the way the same aspect is executed in the other one.
And of course some people are strongly biased towards or against Hollywood. If you have a strong bias, you already know which you'll want to see. If you're like me you'll want to see both. I own both movies, and both have stuck with me, while most movies don't. Each, in its own way, is truly haunting.
Both films are vampire films that make most other vampire films seem juvenile, which is ironic, since the characters in "Let me in"/"Let the right one in" are juveniles.
In some ways the films are meditations on what it would be like to be a vampire, both for better and for worse; and metaphorically, for what it's like to be different from others in ways that make you superior in some ways, yet doomed to never get to experience the humble delights of ordinary human existence, and in that sense it's a study of normal human existence by seeing what it would be like to not have that.
"Let Me In" definitely has a Hollywood flavor compared to the Swedish model. The vampire is prettier, the music more pervasive, the violence violenter, the landscape even bleaker (though not in all respects). Some find these differences extremely annoying. But I showed "Let Me In" to a pair of Russian intellectuals I know who had not seen the Swedish film or read the book, and they loved it. I don't know how they would have reacted if they'd seen "Let the Right One In" first, but I think it's significant that without that comparison they found "Let Me In" to be a real quality film.
There's a plus to seeing both versions--it's like seeing a story from the viewpoints of different characters, though both movies take third party Point of View.
But the emphases are distinct. Even where both films show the same scene it feels different. Don't believe reviewers here who say this is a shot for shot remake of the Swedish original. That just means they weren't looking closely enough.
One kind of person who won't like either movie is Good Guys vs. Bad Guys kind of people--people who think if you show the human side of the villain you're somehow excusing the villain's villainy. People like the fictional Inspector Javert in Les Miserables: The 10th Anniversary Dream Cast in Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall--who was so unhinged by the escaped prisoner Jean Valjean's sparing his life that he committed suicide.
The vampires in these movies didn't ask to be vampires, don't want to be vampires, and would stop being vampires if there was a way out other than self-annihilation. And even if you don't normally watch vampire movies or horror movies you may want to watch this one. It's really more suspense than horror--a bit like Alfred Hitchcock.
Bottom line: this is a serious movie in a genre that's rarely serious. To put it another way, it's a serious take on a non-serious genre. It doesn't ask you to believe in vampires--only that if they existed, their existences would be as fraught and painful and unromantic as they're portrayed here.
SPOILERS FOLLOW--DON'T READ ON IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN OR READ THE BOOK OR ONE OF THE FILMS
Suppose you've seen "Let the Right One In" or read the book, which the Swedish movie hews to more closely.
If you expect the movie to copy the book, neither movie will please you, but the Swedish version will displease you less.
The critics generally agree that "Let Me In" is a fine movie, while "Let the Right One In" verges on greatness.
I love both and I see why the critics rate the Swedish version a tad higher--but there's one plot essential where the Swedish version is truer to the novel but falser to the audience. In the book and the Swedish movie, Eli is actually a castrated boy in drag, basically. In the American version Abby is a girl period. I think the Swedish original is trying to have it both ways, though, by casting a girl (Lina Leandersson) in the part--and not just a girl, but a girl who looks very much like a girl, and who acts like a girl. So while the Swedish version is technically truer to the novel, (a) I'm not seeing the movie as a visualization of the novel, and (b) the American version is more honest. It has a girl play a girl at least. If the Swedish movie had cast a boy to play Eli(as), that would have been true to the book, though it would have had far fewer viewers, including me. I'm glad neither movie was true to the book, frankly.
I wouldn't have disapproved of Eli being a boy in the movie, but I probably wouldn't have chosen to watch it either. And Eli/Abby's social isolation and disinterest in sex have nothing to do with Eli/Abby's gender, but rather by her age (12) and need to be an unwilling serial killer, which can be quite a buzz kill. So the rest of the story doesn't need this character to be a boy for the rest of the story to make sense.
And apart from this element, there are parts of the American movie that are better than the Swedish original, even though I grant that the reverse is also true (especially how the woman dies in the Swedish version, and how Eli spares the life of one kid in the pool scene, the visual of Eli scaling the side of the hospital, and the visual of what happens to Eli when (s)he enters a home without permission). But when Owen asks Abby what is she if she's not a girl, Abby says "I'm nothing," while Eli just stares at him with those Japanese anime character huge eyes. Abby's response is more profound, and her being a girl makes the reason for her saying "I'm nothing" deeper--you don't need gender bending to feel isolated if you're a vampire. Honest. Being a vampire is plenty!
Also, it's absolutely fascinating to see Chloë Grace Moretz' rendition of Abby/Eli. She didn't see the Swedish movie or read the novel before making the movie, so this is her independent interpretation (ditto the boy). It's really different from Leandersson's, yet both performances are deep--truly impressive from actors so young. And the difference in their appearances contribute to making the role different.
So instead of trying to decide which is better--which here is like asking if a pear is better than bacon--I love having two unique interpretations of a fine story to watch.
The negative reviews of "Let Me In" by "Let the Right One In" fans--and vice versa--show that there's a Team Abby and a Team Eli...and Team Can't We All Just Get Along? which I belong to. You probably won't enjoy "Let me in" if you regard every difference as automatically inferior, and every similarity as automatically a needless copy, and if you feel superior to Hollywood movies in general.
I should point out that both films end the same way, so it's not like they tacked one of those happy Hollywood fantasy endings onto this story. And I should add that the author of the book has endorsed both versions. That doesn't prove both versions are good, but it does cast an interesting light on those who disparage "Let Me In" because they think it betrays the book.
I haven't addressed the subtitle issue because dubbing is unacceptable to me in all circumstances (except when used for humorous effect), and anyone who has the sensitivity to enjoy "Let the Right One In" must be able to deal with subtitles.
You'll like "Let Me In" alongside "Let the Right One In" especially if you're a serious filmgoer and like to see, for example, different versions of Shakespeare plays.
Lastly, I think people on Team Eli believe that the American version is stealing sales from the Swedish original. Personally I'd argue that the exact opposite is true. "Let Me In" will garner viewers who wouldn't see the Swedish original anyway because they don't like subtitles and dubbing, and/or because they prefer more American production values and style, as I described in the first part of this review. At the same time a certain % of "Let Me In" viewers will then want to see how the Swedish version did it, because it's a good enough story to justify multiple interpretations.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see how Hayao Miyazaki would interpret this story as an animated film? I think it would be magnificent, given how wonderful Spirited Away is...
- TatianaReviewed in Canada on 15 January 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars A very different vampire movie...
I ordered and saw that movie long ago and it got somehow « lost » in my collection. I saw it on Amazon today while I was searching for others and I remembered how I felt when I looked at it that day... wow !
This movie is amazing, it is entirely different than anything else you have ever seen about vampire. First because it's involving children and second because it's a thousand miles away from the old style killing vampire hunt. The psychological part of the movie have a slow pace, but it is so strong and riveting that it's creating a crave for the conclusion which is at the end, don't expect it before, and for those who, like me, did not read the book, it is unexpected, surprising and even chocking. The two kids are incredible, so well directed and so convincing that I never pause the movie from the first picture to the last one. It is a story of a strange friendship and love, of a psychological dramatic interaction between two kids, of a vampire struggle for his survival and finally, of the darkness of his evil. This movie is definitively for adults only.
I will end this review by quoting myself from another one : if you are ready to detach yourself from everything else that you saw about vampires, you might love this one as much as I did.
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pablo de la calReviewed in Spain on 6 February 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars producto recomendado
todo perfecto
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Pat61AReviewed in Belgium on 3 March 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Un très bon film surprenant et bien interprété
Un très bon film surprenant et bien interprété.
Ce n'est pas qu'un film de vampire, c'est l'histoire d'une gentille jeune fille qui a 12 ans depuis longtemps mais qui connait quelques problèmes d'alimentation... un régime assez particulier qui lui est imposé par sa nature... laquelle ne lui pose pas que ce souci.
C'est parfois dur et contraignant la vie de vampire.
Elle vient d'emménager avec son 'père' dans un triste quartier et rencontre - tard le soir, bien entendu - un garçon de son âge, victime de tous les petits caîds de son lycée et du quartier.
C'est excellent, étonnant, tendre, le tout agrémenté d'un soupçon dhorreur et d'émoglobine.
J'ai apprécié le dénouement comme le film, en toute sincérité et je le retrouverai avec plaisir.
Ceci dit, je me suis probablement posé la question de trop : et après ?
J'ai bien envisagé une hypothèse, mais comme elle ne me plait guère, je vais étudier la question...
En conclusion, je vous le recommande vraiment.
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Michael MasclefReviewed in France on 23 December 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars bon film
bon film fantastique horreur