10 Weirdly Feel-Good Horror Movies With Happy Endings
4. Let The Right One In
The Movie:
In
this unsettling but weirdly sweet slice of Scandi-horror, a 12-year-old bullied
misfit named Oskar living in 1980s suburban Stockholm strikes up an unlikely
friendship with centuries-old vampire child Eli after she moves into his dreary
modernist apartment block with her guardian Håkan who commits grisly murders to
procure the human blood necessary for Eli’s survival.
As the pair grow closer, Eli encourages Oskar to stand up to the bullies at his school but their blossoming romance comes under threat when Håkan’s efforts to get blood find him arrested and eventually dead at the hands of Eli.
Now alone, Eli must fend for herself though her clumsy kills attract the attention of she and Oskar’s neighbours and she realises she must leave but not before really helping out Oskar with his bully problem. And by ‘help’ we mean slaughtering them in brilliantly gory fashion. Don’t feel bad: they totally deserved it.
The Happy Ending: An epilogue shows Oskar sitting on a train transporting a large box containing Eli and protecting her from the sunlight as they tap sweet nothings in Morse code to each other with Oskar apparently now her new caretaker.
Sure, he’ll have to commit bloody murder to keep Eli alive but it’s still a darkly happy kind of ending … right?