Oscar, 12, lives with his mother on the outskirts of Sweden, where he begins to reveal his new neighbor, Elly, a mysterious and troubled girl. Oscar and Eli begin their lives through a strong friendship at first, but soon form a close bond between them reaching the stage of interconnected love. After the time, Oscar discovered that she was not a normal girl and that she looked turbulent and violent. The disaster comes when Elie shares her dark dark mystery with Oscar and reveals the disaster of her association with a series of endless murders.
A strange, stunning and surprisingly sweet Swedish film about childhood friendship and first love.
New Yorker
October 07, 2013
A remarkably moving horror tale, about a pale, bullied twelve-year-old boy (Kåre Hedebrant) and his first love (Lina Leandersson), who happens to be a vampire.
An American remake seems inevitable, but it will be hard to re-create the haunting spell cast by this wonderfully strange film about being young and going steady with a monster.
Alfredson's light touch adds soulful delicacy and a certain ambiguity to the proceedings, making this a horror movie more likely to prompt tears than screams.
Calling to mind the work of Anne Rice and Stephen King, atmospheric adaptation of Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist's bestseller is well directed by his countryman Tomas Alfredson.
