Let the Right One In

Director: Tomas Alfredson

2008 / 114min / 35mm

Bullied by his classmates, friendless 12-year-old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) finally finds a playmate when Eli (Lina Leandersson), a girl his age, moves in next door with her father… just around the time that dead bodies start showing up all over Stockholm. As it happens, learning that Eli is a vampire—and much older than she looks—doesn’t deter Oskar from forming a deep attachment to his friend, and the two young leads’ extraordinary performance of adolescent infatuation did a great deal to make Alfredson’s austere and occasionally very bloody supernatural coming-of-age film a favorite with audiences in Sweden and around the world.