Though one of its central characters turns out to be a vampire, Sweden’s Let the Right One In is not quite a horror film. Working from the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, director Tomas Alfredson is more interested in the story’s central relationship between a troubled 12-year-old boy and the strange girl who [...]

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Yes it’s a Swedish movie with a vampire, but more than anything Let the Right One In is a tender and surprisingly sweet coming of age tale.
It’s about a little boy who is bullied at school and though it’s true that the little girl who moves in next door might be a vampire, the supernatural elements [...]

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