20 Most Highly Rated Horror Movies On Rotten Tomatoes
12. Let The Right One In
Rating: 98%
Swedish horror Let the Right One In might be based on a book and have a vampiric love story at its heart, but fear not: Tomas Alfredson’s film is an eerily beautiful and oddly heart-warming affair with just the right amount of gore that’s about as far from Twilight as you can get.
Starring the precociously talented Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson as young outsiders Oskar and Eli – a bullied schoolboy and a centuries-old eternal vampire child, respectively – who bond over their shared loneliness, it’s a brutal yet enchanting reminder that it’s possible to bring something new even to a genre as hackneyed as vampire horror.
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves helmed an American remake in 2010 which although very good was kind of unnecessary – the kind of film made for moviegoers who can’t be bothered to keep up with subtitles. For the truly superior version, stick to Alfredson’s original.