So you’ve just woken up on Saturday morning and you’re turning to your friendly neighborhood MetBlogs to figure out what to do today. Do you want to see a movie? What type of movie do you want to see?

Do you want to see a horror flick?
A love story?
A coming of age story?

How about all of the above?

Yes, you can actually have all of those genres in ONE movie. Today! At SIFF!

Let the Right One In ^[1], a Swedish movie with English subtitles, is actually all of those movies rolled into one. It tells the story of Oskar, a little boy who is the victim of school bullies. He’s twelve, so of course he doesn’t tell his parents about the bullying. He’s from a broken home, is more of a geek than a jock, and just doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere. He spends his evenings outside his apartment complex, in the snow, pretending to stab the bullies with a knife or playing with his Rubik’s Cube. But then two mysterious people move in next door. The father figure keeps to himself, except for an odd hobby of killing people and draining their blood and the young girl, Eli, is the vampire. She befriends Oskar and well… the rest of the movie unfolds from there.

The movie wasn’t particularly violent or gory. There were a few parts, of course, after all, it is a vampire movie. But the bloody parts were well spaced and in general, over quickly. The story seemed to fly by. Honestly, I wasn’t thrilled about going to this movie. It’s been a long week and I was exhausted. I worried that a nearly two hour movie would either put me to sleep or leave me chomping at the bit to leave. This movie held my interest, despite not being particularly action-packed. The 117 minutes practically flew by. I think the ending was nearly ideal.

I give it a 4.5 out of 5. You can see it today, Saturday, May 31st at 11am at the Uptown.