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22. Let the Right One In (2008 Movie) (20.5 points)
Nominated by: PrinceKaro (0/2 remaining)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp4g9p_rgo

Importance: 6.5
Fear: 5
Snake: 9

I'm personally surprised it took 4 of these rankings to get Let the Right One In, one of the best takes on vampirism in fiction, nominated. Playing out more like a romantic drama, Let the Right One In is a grounded and deep take on the genre, rivaled only, in my opinion, by Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre. Children are very rarely the focus of vampire films, but here, they're front and center. There's Oskar, an oft-bullied boy who meets lonely Eli, an androgynous vampire who just moved in next door, and they slowly fall in love with each other. Adding to the mix is an older man named Hakan, who appears unsavory but has good intentions for Eli (he's worse in the book though). Eli helps Oskar deal with his rampant bullying problems, and there's a particularly violent scene where Oskar splits open a bullies ear with a rod, and it's scenes like this that truly define this film's horror: unpleasant, unsatisfying, sloppy, and all together cruel. If you've seen the film's climax at a certain pool, you will know what I'm talking about. Yet, this horror comes slow and with clear purpose. They're unnatural markers to the inherent strangeness of Oskar and Eli's relationship, and the film takes careful pains to show the similarities between them despite coming from different backgrounds. If you took out the horror elements, you would still have a psychologically driven film that shows how loneliness and depression can sometimes to lead to some extreme actions. This film is an essential and should be at the top for any horror fan to see if they haven't yet! You will be drawn in by the film's dream-like flair and deep-cutting romance, and equally repulsed by the film's unflinching approach to vampiric evisceration.

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