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Let the Right One In

Original title: Låt den rätte komma in
  • 20082008
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  • 1h 54m
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Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
IMDb RATING
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POPULARITY
2,150
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    • Tomas Alfredson
    • John Ajvide Lindqvist(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kåre Hedebrant
    • Lina Leandersson
    • Per Ragnar
    • Tomas Alfredson
    • John Ajvide Lindqvist(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Kåre Hedebrant
    • Lina Leandersson
    • Per Ragnar
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 647User reviews
    • 494Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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    Let the Right One In: "Underpass Attack"
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    Director Hanna Bergholm on the Films That Inspired 'Hatching'
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    Unconventional Romances to Stream Now
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    Let the Right One In: "Hit Them Back"
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    Let the Right One In: "Virginia Changes"
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    Let the Right One In: "Virginia Attacks"
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    Let the Right One In: "Locker Room"
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    Let the Right One In: "Oskar's Scrapbook"
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    Let the Right One In: You're supposed to help me"
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    Let the Right One In: "Hakan Attack"
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    Let the Right One In: ""Killing Kit"
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    Patrik Rydmark, Johan Charles, Mikael Erhardsson, and Kåre Hedebrant in Let the Right One In (2008)
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    Kåre Hedebrant in Let the Right One In (2008)
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    Kåre Hedebrant
    Kåre Hedebrant
    • Oskar
    Lina Leandersson
    Lina Leandersson
    • Eli
    Per Ragnar
    Per Ragnar
    • Håkan
    Henrik Dahl
    • Erik
    Karin Bergquist
    Karin Bergquist
    • Yvonne
    Peter Carlberg
    • Lacke
    Ika Nord
    Ika Nord
    • Virginia
    Mikael Rahm
    • Jocke
    Karl-Robert Lindgren
    • Gösta
    Anders T. Peedu
    • Morgan
    Pale Olofsson
    • Larry
    Cayetano Ruiz
    • Magister Avila
    Patrik Rydmark
    Patrik Rydmark
    • Conny
    Johan Charles
    Johan Charles
    • Andreas
    • (as Johan Sömnes)
    Mikael Erhardsson
    • Martin
    Rasmus Luthander
    • Jimmy
    Sören Källstigen
    • Janne - Eriks kompis
    Malin Cederblad
    • Sjukhusreceptionist
    • (as Malin Cederbladh)
      • Tomas Alfredson
      • John Ajvide Lindqvist(screenplay) (novel)
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    • Trivia
      Several tricks were used to create the right sound effects for some of the gorier scenes. Biting into sausages was used to replicate biting into skin and flesh, and drinking yogurt was used to sound like drinking blood. The sound of the children blinking was made by the skin of grapes rubbing together in an almost "blinking" motion.
    • Goofs
      (at around 16 mins) As Oskar is looking in his clip book with old newspaper articles, a serial number used by the Swedish police is visible. That number ends with 95, which means that crime was committed in 1995. The movie, however, is set in 1982.
    • Quotes

      Oskar: Eli... Can you and I be together?

      Eli: What do you mean?

      Oskar: Well... Will you be my girlfriend?

      Eli: Oskar... I'm not a girl.

      Oskar: You're not?

      [pause]

      Oskar: Can we be together?

      Eli: Can't we just be how we are?

      Oskar: I guess...

      Eli: Do you do something special if you're "together"?

      Oskar: No.

      Eli: We stay just as we were?

      Oskar: Yes.

      Eli: Then I agree...

      Oskar: What?

      Eli: We can be "together".

      Oskar: Really?

      Eli: [Whispers] Yes.

      Oskar: Good.

    • Connections
      Featured in Deconstruyendo 'Déjame entrar' (2009)
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      Written by Per Gessle

      Performed by Per Gessle

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    Let's remake this excellent movie?
    At it's worst "Let the Right One In" is far too subtle and slow and nothing like typical horror movies, (if it should be considered one.) At its best its one of the better films we've seen in the last decade. As a foreign film it should see wider American distribution and publicity than any such film since"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

    Our hero here, who is just twelve, is so perfectly likable and so well played he is the sort of boy you'd want to raise, or the sort you'd want your child to end up with. He's richly contemplative and caring, lonely, but not broken, cool, but not pretentious, precocious and yet without arrogance. Who knew that he would fall for a vampire?

    It's a story more like "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" than " The Lost Boys." It's more about asceticism and existentialism than blood and gore. I won't give any details away, but this film is neither convoluted nor cliché. Sure, it's not amongst the best stories. It's not a formula film, but it's intelligently written and doesn't start anything it doesn't conclude, (well not too much).

    Beautifully shot in a snowy and desolate Swedish town, the film very much carries on a world of its own. The film as an entirety is subtle, even slow. Likewise the effects are far from showy, making tasteful use of CGI with kitties or watching our vampire climb seven stories.

    The sound does not rely on a creepy score, nor attempts a hip or ambient soundtrack. Instead, it successfully amplifies the sounds of its fictional and isolated universe, (which is far away from reality and amid somewhere in the early 1980s.) For the most part we only hear what the characters or the world around them, gusts of wind, the brushing of teeth, The Clash. Though most notable is all of the silence, all of the stillness that creeps about keeping the viewer mystified and engaged.

    What the film does is allow adequate time for the viewer to develop a consciousness about the situation of the story. It allows us to make our own determinations without being told what to conclude. Throughout the entire movie I could only count one legitimate flaw, a tiny divisive issue, which I'm sure was mulled over by a brilliant director and screenwriter.

    It certainly won't be for everyone. It's not for those who can't read. It's not for kids. And it's not for those who can't bear non-traditional story telling. For me, the film was a breath of fresh air in an increasingly tiring and rehashed film industry. At least this film is rehash of a different kind.

    This film should have seen a slew of Oscar nods and it seemed to me this film could have had a wide release. Nevertheless it will turn out to be a classic.
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      • December 12, 2008 (United States)
      • Sweden
      • Swedish
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    • Filming locations
      • Örnäset, Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • EFTI
      • Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB
      • Filmpool Nord
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    • 1 hour 54 minutes
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