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 (Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Blade and Underworld movies) 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 Eli, the girl 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 film critic and horror novelist 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"--Abstract

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (114 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781800850583, 1800850581, 9781906733964, 1906733961, 9781800347311, 1800347316
DOI:10.504/9781800850583
oclc:on1237546579
LC Classification:PN1997.2.L482

Introduction -- '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.