Best film since I cant remember when
Ray from Dublin, 01 Oct 2009
You know the way vampire films are all rubbish despite everyone's best efforts to make them good? You know the way the whole vampire schtick is so full of untapped potential you just know there's gotta be a film out there somewhere that portrays love, relationships, and being an unholy killer with such depth and feeling that it actually helps define you personally?
I think I'll move to Sweden.
4 people out of 4 found this review helpful
Glad we let this one in!
Darren from Dublin, 01 Dec 2010
We heard good things about this film when it was first released(my initial doubts surrounding vampire movies proved way off the mark).
Great performances from the two leading characters, especially being kids with a compelling and absorbing storyline supported by some glorious shots.
Well worthy of the plaudits it has received to date.
One minor "complaint" we have is that the version we got was that the subtitles were for hard of hearing(eg dog barking, car screeching etc) only as oppo
3 people out of 3 found this review helpful
Utterly essential
MacDara from Galway, 19 Aug 2009
Best film I've seen for a few years, it's like 2 films: One is a heart warming, bittersweet love story between 2 (apparently) 12 years-olds, the other is a well thought out, modern vampire tale. You get settled into the love story, then you have a vampire moment which, in the way it's handled, is all the more shocking. Great performances from the 2 leads. This one's going straight into my top ten. Oh, and the soundtrack's fantastic too.
3 people out of 3 found this review helpful
A must-see film
Melinda from Cavan, 02 Sep 2009
Wasn't sure what to expect with this film - anything that even vaguely approaches the horror genre isn't usually my cup of tea - but this is in a league of its own. The two lead actors are both brilliant (the same was also true of Somerstown which I had watched a few days before - another film I can highly recommend) and the story is totally compelling. I particularly liked the way the film included a number of 'facts' about vampires - or rather things that you would know from other films such a
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful
A little chilly...
Philip from Dublin, 06 Aug 2009
This might well be a modern classic. A lonely, bullied boy with disturbingly violent fantasies meets a lonely little girl who has moved in next door to him. She is 12 - but, as she dryly notes, has been 12 for a very long time. She is in fact a vampire. And they become friends. And very bloody things ensue. The film is sometimes astonishingly beautiful, chilly, violent and very moving. The two child actors are incredibly good, especially the girl. Unmissable.
2 people out of 3 found this review helpful
Haunting movie
Irina from Dublin, 16 Dec 2009
Mysterious, dark and spooky - this movie is still haunting me since I saw it several weeks ago.. It's about so much more than a blood-sucking vampire: that special childhood friendship, bullying at school, life dilemmas that leave you guessing what is going to happen next.. It may not be for everyone's taste (personally I don't like violence on screen) but will be one of most memorable movies you'll see.
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful
Unmissable
Ciaran from Dublin, 01 Aug 2009
For all lovers of Vamp flicks this is one you cannot miss. Brooding and atmospheric in the extreme, the sights, sounds and feelings of this movie wont leave you for a while. Two convincing child actors are what the whole show depends on and they don't dissapoint in any way. Hugely recommended and be sure to catch this before the (I presume) neutered Hollywood version appears next year.
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful
Not won over!
emmet from Dublin, 09 Apr 2010
Having read the reviews both here and in rotton tomatoes I was looking forward to watching this film.
However the only thing I was left with at the end was a feeling of gratitude that I wasnt born anywhere in the bleakness and sterility of scandanavia.
The photography portrays well the travails and mind numbing boredom of downtown sweden.
However I felt the film itself left an awful lot to be desired.
Both of us watching it waited for something to happen ,and perhaps some deeper explanation
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