The always excellent Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has posted an audio interview he had with Tomas Alfredson, the director of Let the Right One In. Here's a little of what Jeffrey has to say about the film and here's the mp3 file. Everything I read about this film makes me want to see it more and more.
Let The Right One In doesn't compose with the usual brushstrokes. The vampire (Lina Leandersson) is a tweener girl and the male lead, a mortal, is a wimpy blond male (Kare Hedebrant) who's in love with her. It has about 50 CG shots but very few are "noticable." The violent moments happen suddenly and sometimes off-screen. And it hasn't been shot like a typical horror film (i.e., in a spooky-sexy-dreamscape way) but with a flat, over-bright, industrial texture. And everything in the film is surrounded -- blanketed -- with lots and lots of snow.
I spoke with Alfredson earlier today, and if the film doesn't make clear it hasn't been directed by a horror film buff, Alfredson repeatedly emphasizes this. He's not Guillermo del Toro , not by a long shot. The only significant Dracula movie he's seen, he says, is the old Bela Lugosi version from the early '30s. That means he hasn't seen Francis Coppola's Dracula or any of the Hammer Dracula films of the '50s and '60s or anything else along these lines.
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I want to see this movie as well and currently have a bet running with local friends that we will probably see this before [Rec]. Im not a hater (well maybe a little) but I am so hoping the american remake of [Rec] flops so the original dvd release comes out sooner.
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