10 Horror Movies That Stick The Landing
9. Let The Right One In
2008 Swedish horror movie Let the Right One In was remade in 2010 as Let Me In starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz, presumably because the production company didn't think Americans could handle a movie with a five-word title.
The original film stars Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar, a bullied schoolboy who befriends a young girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson). Well, she seems young, but she's actually a vampire, so who knows how old she actually is.
Oskar and Eli mostly communicate via the thin wall between their two bedrooms, tapping messages to each other in a secret code. This sweet, childlike detail plays a key role in the movie's end, helping to wash out the taste of a particularly brutal penultimate scene.
Eli ends up saving Oskar from his bullies, killing them all in bloody fashion to prevent them from drowning the poor lad in a swimming pool.
After realising they're not safe anymore, Oskar and Eli board a train towards a new life, with Eli hiding from the sunlight in a box. The film ends with Eli tapping the word "kiss" through the box's lid and a delighted Oskar replying with the same thing. Aww.