Let the right one in

by Billson, Anne

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Title Statements

Full title :Let the right one in / Anne Billson.

Summary

Vampires have never been so popular. Amid the glut it takes a very special vampire movie to stand out. Like Twilight, the Swedish film Let the Right One In is a love story between a human and a vampire - but there the resemblance ends. Let the Right One In is not a romantic fantasy but combines the supernatural with social realism. Set on a housing estate in the suburbs of Stockholm in the early 1980s, it's the story of Oskar, a lonely, bullied child, who makes friends with new arrival Eli, who lives in the next apartment. 'Oskar, I'm not a girl,' she tells him - and she's not kidding. They forge a relationship which is oddly innocent yet disturbing, two outsiders against the rest of the world. But one of these outsiders is, effectively, a serial killer. What does Eli want from Oskar?

While Let the Right One In is startlingly original, it nevertheless couldn't have existed without the near century of vampire cinema that preceded it Acclaimed horror writer Anne Billson looks at how it has drawn from, and wrung new twists on, such classics as Nosferatu (1922), how vampire cinema has already flirted with social realism in films like Martin (1977) and Near Dark (1987) and how vampire mythology adapts itself to the modern world. --Book Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Auteur
Place of Publication:Leighton Buzzard [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:112 pages : : illustrations ; : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781906733506, 1906733503
oclc:ocn635463762
LC Classification:PN1995.9.V3
Dewey Decimal:791.4372

Machine generated contents note: 'Be Me, For a Little While' -- Textual Analysis -- The Other Swedish Vampire Movie -- The Vampire's Arrival -- Meeting the Vampire -- The Vampire as Serial Killer -- The Vampire as Metaphor -- Sex and the Vampire -- Becoming a Vampire -- The Vampire's Lifestyle -- The Vampire's Nemesis -- The Vampire's Assistant -- Vampire Rules.