So before Cloverfield's director messes it up in 2010 or so with another crappy US remake, I highly recommend watching this Swedish vampire film. Was able to see it at San Francisco's Roxie a few weeks ago. Currently reading the novel (though they stupidly changed the title to the much less accurate and thematically wrong "Let Me In"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABA0P-tsQCU I think it's coming out at Landmark's Embarcadero on 11/14 and maybe sooner depending on where you live. Like it so much I may see it again.
Thanks a lot for the info and link! I didn't know about this film at all. I love vampire films...well, good vampire films. This looks creepy and atmospheric! My fave theaters are the Kabuki and Embarcadero...I will definitely check this out!
That looks pretty cool! I've had a total urge to watch more Vampire movies after I saw Interview with the Vampire the other night for the first time in forever. It was way better than I remembered it being from when I first saw it as a youngster, I think I was more exclusively into gore movies like Dead alive, Evil Dead kind of stuff back then and just kind of wrote it off as a sucky emo goth romance movie, like Titanic with Vampires or something... but it is awesome!
Hahahaha! Yeah not the same thing at all. This is supposed to be excellent. Trailer looks great! Can't wait to see it myself.
Let the Right One In is hands down one of the best films I have seen in years! It is a horror film in that way that it's bloody (tastefully so) and about vampires (great take on that as well) but it's also a really sweet coming of age love story. Honestly. I saw this at Frightfest in a cinema full of hardened horror fans and the applause was deafening. Please please see it! If last years killer was The Orphanage, this year goes to Let the Right One In. In slightly related news, I have a new review up on http://www.thequietus.com if anyone is interested.
So I just finished the original novel (as I mentioned before they translated the title to Let Me In). And as expected a different experience, but a good one nonetheless. As the author did his own screenplay adaptation, he pares the script down to just the right essentials for the film. However, I do like the film version better, as it supports certain hypotheses I have about the story better (I can't mention them as they'd be total spoilers), and there are are a few scenes that are improved upon significantly in their filmic incarnation. I do recommend both. I don't think the order matters in this situation. Also, as is quoted in the novel, looks like the title is a line taken from Morrissey's Let the Right One Slip In, which is very apt.
Caught a preview last week & loved it. It's very open-ended in some ways, raises a lot of questions (moral, etc), & doesn't talk down to the audience at all. A few scenes are hilarious. Also doesn't try to do too much. I thought it was even more successful than "The Host" at blending disparate genres.
I saw this last night as it's playing across the street from my apartment. All I'm saying is I will probably go and see it again tonight and maybe tomorrow night. go see it.
Foreign horror films are so much better than American horror films, especially in the last 10 years. American horror films are so filled with cliches that the only people that can watch them are people with no imagination.
Can't wait to see this it this weekend. The paper had a write up, but aside from a favorable review, it affirmed that Hollywood is going to reshoot it and have it directed by the guy who did Cloverfield. Why the fuck do they do always this with foreign films. And why do the majority of Americans have such an aversion to subtitles & prefer dumbed down mall-plex versions to the originals
I was actually just about to add "don't forget Spain" and truthfully, I don't think Italy has put out much of anything good in quite a while. There has been some decent British and Australian stuff though too.
Did anybody see Mother of tears, Dario Argento's final film in the 3 mothers trilogy? I thought it was way better than any of the other shit he's done lately.
That's not saying too much. I think those Masters of Horror he did were the best in that lame series and the best stuff he's done in forever. There were far too many laugh out loud moments in Mother of Tears for me. Especially the gothy witches. Let us hope Giallo is great, the trailer looked pretty good.
