Let the Right One In
Available screening types
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Available until
Jan 01, 2026
Available in
United States of America
Brought to you by
Magnolia Pictures
About the film
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.
Genre
Horror
Runtime
1h 55m
Released
2008
Director
Tomas Alfredson, Tomas Alfredson
Producer
Carl Molinder, John Nordling, John Nordling, Carl Molinder
Cast
Mikael Rahm, Pale Olofsson, Karl-Robert Lindgren, Johan Sömnes, Anders T. Peedu, Ika Nord, Mikael Erhardsson, Tom Ljungman, Peter Carlberg, Cayetano Ruiz, Kåre Hedebrant, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Fredrik Ramel, Patrik Rydmark, Per Ragnar, Lina Leandersson
Awards & recognition
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2009
Winner Saturn Award Best International Film
Tribeca Film Festival 2008
Winner Jury Award Best Narrative Feature
British Independent Film Awards 2009
Winner
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
Winner
London Critics Circle Film Awards 2010
Winner ALFS Award Foreign Language Film of the Year
Scream Awards 2009
Winner Scream Award Best Foreign Movie
What people are saying
‘Sinister but gorgeous and compelling.‘
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
‘ 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.‘
Bruce Diones
New Yorker