Let The Right One In (2008)
Added 2025-09-02 13:00:15 +0000 UTCComments
Love this movie so much, loved your commentary, and I’d love to see commentary on the remake! I love the vampire genre because of the way it relates to so many human relationships. Both of my parents were emotional vampires, and this movie may as well be a documentary about my childhood. I can’t express how hard it was on my ego to realize that I’ve lived much of my life as Renfield. Keep the wrong motherfuckers out!
Ben johnson
2025-09-30 18:01:11 +0000 UTCI love this film and the Hollywood remake. The remake is almost an Americanized sister-piece to this and has some interesting elements in its own right (including Chloe Grace-Moretz as the Eli character). Think your perspective on this film is colored by whether you think that Eli and Oskar's relationship is genuine or if it's a case of seduction to get a new Renfield and she'll just use him and dump him. Will he end up like Eli's previous caretaker? Possibly. Likely. But who knows. I think it's at least somewhat genuine. Glad you were able to watch this with us. You'll have to watch the remake to find out about the ending. It's like watching different actors playing the same role but having elements that distinguish their portrayals from each other. It's directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, The Batman). I really recommend seeing it with us too. I should note I really don't like remakes very often especially one that's made just a couple of years after but this is an exception.
Chris Morgan
2025-09-07 04:35:05 +0000 UTCEli was a boy, twelve, when the vampire who turned him kidnapped him and castrated him - that's what the crotch shot was to indicate. Eli isn't a girl, Eli isn't human, Eli isn't Oskar's friend, and doesn't care about him - this is the gradual seduction of a neglected, bullied, lonely boy into being Eli's new minion to take over the previous one who had worn out his usefulness. The way Eli would scream at him and berate him, and in the end drain him and dump him indifferently out the window to his death, is a glimpse of what Oskar has to look forward to when Eli is done with him, too.
Mark
2025-09-04 07:27:08 +0000 UTC
