A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy's wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing temperatures. Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. One man is found tied to a tree, another frozen in the lake, a woman bitten in the neck. Blood seems to be the common denominator--and for an introverted boy like Oskar, who is fascinated by gruesome stories, it doesn't take long before he figures out that Eli is a vampire. But, by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar and Eli, and she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors. Oskar becomes increasingly aware of the tragic, inhuman dimension of Eli's plight, but cannot bring himself to forsake her. Frozen forever in a 12-year-old's body, with all the burgeoning feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent, Eli knows that she can only continue to live if she keeps on moving. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can.
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Child vampires have it easy. They can lurk in the shadows beneath an overpass, feign a need for help, then pounce on an assisting stranger, the way 12-year-old Eli (Lina Leandersson) does in Tomas Alfredson's "Let the Right One In." She begs for help, then sucks her good Samaritan's blood. But the movie brings us the chillingly sad fate of certain creatures of the night: Someone has to die in order for her to live, and you worry momentarily that this someone might be Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), the thin, blond, pale fellow 12-year-old whose apartment is adjacent to Eli's. She doesn't want to bite him. She wants to be his friend. (Full review)
Preteen vampire changes the life of a lonely boy in Sweden. Unique, touching and dark. (Full review)