Image of Vampires in an Atypical Horror Film
Words: 2598 Pages: 9 1630Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In (2008) is a vampire horror film focusing on the unique solidarity between two misfit pre-pubescents: Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a psychologically disturbed, lonely boy, and Eli (Lina Leandersson), an equally disaffected vampire. The film foregrounds the valorized allure and unsettling horror of their love in a world of sameness and difference. The film's melancholic sublimity is effectuated by what I term its "deconstructive indifference," which refers to how it disarticulates the natural and inevitable […]