'Let Me In' (2010): What Wouldn't You Do for Love?

Some say it's horror, some say it's scarry. I say it's kinda sweet, disturbingly romantic. From kids' perspective, maybe we're all innocent.

Directed by Matt Reeves, Let Me In (2010) is a remake from the 2008 Swedish movie titled Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In). Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee as a twelve year old boy named Owen, this movie tells the story about his friendship with a little vampire girl named Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz).

Owen, a lonely boy who had been bullied by his cruel friends at school, lived in a flat with his soon to be divorced mom. One night, while he was peering at neighbours with a telescope from bedroom window, he saw an old man and a little girl moving in to a flat next to them.

At first, he felt pity on that girl for he noticed that she was walking barefoot in the cold snow. Something wasn't right, he sensed. Maybe that little girl had been harrashed by her daddy.

Night after that, when he played alone outside, that little girl approaching him in the yard. They soon made friends, but that was just before strange things starting to happen. There was several murders occurred in their neighbourhood. The first victim was a teenage schoolboy, the second one was a man living in the same building as theirs.

But don't expect the story with such a twisted plot, 'cos Reeves makes it very clear from the very beginning. He shows us who did it. There's no mistery at all, except, maybe, the true relation between the old man and the little girl. 

What I like about this movie is that it gives you a glimpse to puppy love romance, an experience that you may have had when you were younger. But, I personally think this movie is a way too brutal. I mean, this boy Owen, how could he just watching people bleeding, screaming, dying in front of his eyes, and didn't do anything to stop it.  And still he fell in love with that girl who did all of those cruel things. Blah, what a maniac!

If you like the kind of dark, quiet, gloomy movie, then maybe this one is your cup of tea. Oh, and I just knew that we don't have to be afraid of vampire entering our house, 'cos they can't come in if you don't let them in. So, forget about garlic! *yeah