For a movie I’d never heard of before Fantastic Fest started, Let the Right One In could not have been more overhyped by the time I got to see it. Badgeholders were giving excited testimonials in the Alamo Drafthouse lobby, bloggers were threatening to beat people about the head with broken beer bottles unless they attended the screening, and even the Fantastic Fest representative who introduced the film gushed at embarrassing length about the mind-blowing wondrousness of the movie we were about to see. It’s nice to see the geek crowd expend so much enthusiasm on a low-budget film with subtitles rather than a $200 million superhero epic, but raising expectations to an unrealistic level doesn’t do the movie any favors. At the risk of sounding like the voice of reason, Let the Right One In is a good movie, but a modest one, not the next evolutionary leap forward in cinema.
So what is it?
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