Fang you very much Sweden

I came across a trailer for this creepy Swedish film called `Let The Right One In’ and thought it was worth a look. It premiered in Australia at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 1 and received a pretty super-awesome response. Given the fact `Let The Right One In’ is in Swedish with English subtitles it’s likely to get a limited release throughout the rest of the country (so make you keep look out for it at your local Art House Cinema). Set in Stockholm suburb of Blackberg in 1982 the film tells the story of Oskar, a lonely 12-year old who is bullied at school and dreams of revenge. One day he meets a peculiar girl named Eli who he later discovers is a vampire. You can view the trailer here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=EaK-lx5XMWQ
Considering horror is one of my favourite genres, particularly monster-based films, I was surprised at how director Tomas Alfredson seems to taking a different path on a well trodden track. Usually the vampire is associated with lust and sexual desire so the concept of a child-vampire is very interesting. And talk about creepy! This trailer gave me more shivers than the time I was locked in an industrial freezer for two hours . . . but that’s another story. Hopefully with the swish trailer a few thousand people from main stream audiences might be drawn to this flick too.