Hey folks, your friendly neighborhood Valkor is back with another hot MediaView nugget you won’t wanna pass up, should it ever touches your grubby mitts. This one comes all the way from Sweden, a first for me. And while I’m not a huge fan of Vampire films, I’ll admit, “Let The Right One In”, is just damn good.

“Let The Right One In”, is an adolescent love story, where two hearts from different worlds, having a chance meeting and changing their lives forever. The main plot is about a boy named Oskar (Kare Hedebrandt), who’s picked on daily by a bully named Conny (Patrik Rydmark). When we first meet Oskar, he is plotting revenge against the boy who torments him daily. One night while he’s outside, practicing his stabbing skillz, he happens to meet a girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson). Eli recently moved next door with her father and is about Oskar’s age. The two soon become friends, meeting almost nightly. But what Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli’s a Vampire, who follows basic Vampire rules such as never going into the sun, or she has to be invited into a home before she can enter. And her father does the hunting for her by going out and draining victims of their blood. But the friendship between Oskar and Eli blossom, she even teaches him how to handle his bully situation. But when it’s revealed that Eli is truly a Vampire, Eli has to make a choice to stay and face death by the town’s people, or run away. Please note that I am leaving out some subplots as I don’t wanna go full on spoiler “Let the Right One In” is not the scariest film I’ve ever seen, but it is quite chilling with lots of gore. Also there are scenes that some may find discomforting; because this is a film about a boy and a girl, 12 year olds to be exact, there are some scenes (one in particular) that you may find… well shocking. Ok given the situation, empathizing with Oskar, yes I would do what he did. But they didn’t need to actually show what he sees. Other than that the film is a true Vampire film right down to the blood and there’s lots of it. But let’s sink into the heart of this review.

The plot stands out first and foremost, because the story is unique. I mean it’s been done, but not from this angle and it feels real, very believable. The characters react almost like how you would expect them, especially Oskar and Eli. The suspense level isn’t too intense, but the chill factor is there in spades; the entire mood of the film is simply dark as all hell. And did I mention the blood/gore level? You don’t get buckets of blood, but there’s enough to make you cringe. The Gore level is also set to medium, with only a few gross out scenes. But the ending is where it’s at. Just when you think it’s over… it’s not. Talk about coming gaining some closure and coming full circle.

The only bad is that one scene when Oskar peeks in at Eli. Again it’s not bad, but some people might construe it as such, when in fact the scene is quite innocent and is expected of a boy that age. It’s very brief, but it’s in your face.

Eli’s dad turning Two-Face; you’ll see what I mean.

“Let the Right One In” is winning raves from everyone who’s seen it and with good reason; it’s an exceptional story of boy meets girl, with a tale of Vampire woe to complete the package, which I highly recommend. Out of TOV 5 stars I’m giving it a 4 and it’s been Valkor tested, TOV approved.

Valkor out!