Genre: Horror
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Screenwriter: John Ajvide Lindqvis
Main Actors: Kare Hidebrant, Lina Leandersson
Year: 2008
Production Company: EFTI
City/Country of Origin: Sweden
Personal notes: Pat and I were talking about this film at Celebration V, mostly because the US remake had become a topic of conversation. This moody, gripping vampire film breaks conventions by staying simple. This isn't a sparkly, super-fast, super-strong vampire movie. It's a story about a little girl who kills to survive and the boy she falls in love with. It's a visceral, albeit sweet, vampire-love story. Even if the rest of this film sucked, you should watch it for the stark cinematography. Filmed in the North of Sweden in the dead of winter, this film looks and feels like white death.
This is going to be one of my favorite films ever. It is its own category, it's like no other film, and it iss beautiful even in its savagery.
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