50 Greatest Horror Movies Of The 21st Century
3. Let The Right One In
Plot: A bullied boy (Kare Hadebrant) forms a close friendship with a child vampire (Lina Leandersson).
The aforementioned Let Me In was a great movie, no question about it, but it still couldn't quite reach the heights of the Swedish original, Let the Right One In. There's no shame in that, for few other modern horror films come anywhere close to this masterpiece of storytelling.
A strange and wonderful horror movie, Let the Right One In takes viewers through a whole kaleidoscope of different moods. Sometimes it's dark and horrifying, sometimes it's startlingly beautiful, sometimes it's unbearably tense and often, it's hard to know exactly what to think or feel.
This is a movie that denies its audience easy answers or explanations, which is one of the many reasons why this movie is likely to live rent-free in the heads of those who see it for a very long time.
As well as being a masterpiece of writing it's also beautifully filmed and exceptionally well-acted by its young leads, which further affirms it as a true masterpiece of its genre. There really is nothing else like it.