Let The Right One In

A few months ago, a friend recommended this film to me in a very, very long email. This from someone who generally only sent me messages composed of one or two lines. This sent me on a quest to find the film without resorting to downloads. It finally appeared at the Hyland Cinema, but was just as quickly disappeared.

Well, I finally found it.

Let The Right One In is a wonderful film, not only because it is well made but because it vainly confirms my belief in what constitutes good horror. For me, horror is about atmosphere, about chills, and about the deep, growing unease simple, everyday environments can attain through the glacial prism of fear. The current trend in horror fiction and film is to equate gore with horror, or simple shock. To take the time to create atmosphere, to introduce the horrific to the everyday, to make it a part of it, is almost unheard of. Joe Hill did it with Heart Shaped Box, and John Ajvide Lindqvist and director Tomas Alfredson do it here.

A great way to spend Hallowe'en night.