About

Let the Right One In is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. It tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. Alfredson, unfamiliar with the horror and vampire genres, decided to tone down many elements of the novel and focus primarily on the love-story between the two main characters. Selecting the lead actors involved a year-long process with open castings held all over Sweden. In the end, then 11-year-olds Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson were chosen for the leading roles. They were subsequently commended by both Alfredson and film reviewers for their performances.

The film received widespread international critical acclaim and won numerous awards, including the "Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature" at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation's 2008 Melies d'Or (Golden Melies) for the "Best European Fantastic Feature Film", as well as four Guldbagge Awards from the Swedish Film Institute. Due to the film's initial success at various film festivals, the rights for an English-language remake of the film sold before the film had its theatrical release. Matt Reeves, who praised both the film and the novel, and expressed that he felt a strong personal connection to the story, will direct the remake, slated for release in 2010.
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Cast

• Kare Hedebrant as Oskar
• Lina Leandersson as Eli
  • Elif Ceylan as Eli's voice
• Per Ragnar as Hakan
• Henrik Dahl as Erik, Oskar's father
• Karin Bergquist as Yvonne, Oskar's mother
• Peter Carlberg as Lacke
• Ika Nord as Virginia
• Mikael Rahm as Jocke
• Karl Robert Lindgren as Gosta
• Anders T. Peedu as Morgan
• Pale Olofsson as Larry
• Cayetano Ruiz as Magister Avila
• Patrik Rydmark as Conny
• Johan Somnes as Andreas
• Mikael Erhardsson as Martin
• Rasmus Luthander as Jimmy
• Soren Kallstigen as Erik's friend
• Bernt Ostman as Virginia's nurse
• Kajsa Linderholm as the teacher
• Susanne Ruben as the older Eli

The Right One

The Right One is named after the title of the film, only shortened. It is run by Cassie.

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