hello everyone and welcome back to another video today we're going to be talking about one of the
best vampire horror movies ever made let the right one in this is one of those rare vampire
movies that received universal acclaim a 98 on rotten tomatoes you don't see that every day
and the man himself Roger Ebert proclaimed it the best modern vampire movie
if that's not a high praise I don't know what is rest in peace to roger Ebert let the right one
in is a Swedish romantic horror film that came out in 2008 and was directed by Tomas Alfredson
it stars Kåre Hedebrant as Oscar and Lina Leandersson is Eli the movie is based on the book
of the same name that came out in 2004 written by John Ajvide Lindqvist he also wrote the screenplay
for the film which is probably why it turned out so good similar to when Anne Rice author
of the vampire chronicles wrote the screenplay for interview with the vampire apparently authors are
very good at writing screenplays the budget for let the right one in was around 4 million and it
brought in roughly 11.2 million at the box office the movie was well received though and it actually
received a us remake in 2010 called let me in if there's any other movies or tv shows you want
me to cover please leave them in the comments below we're going to be taking a look at how a
200 year old vampire survives being trapped in the body of a 12 year old in Blackeberg Sweden
when the movie starts we are introduced to a young boy named Oscar he gets bullied by
the kids at school and doesn't seem to have any friends he lives with his mother and his father
is an alcoholic he fantasizes about killing the kids that bully him playing out the scenarios
for fun with a knife he also has a fascination with murders he cuts out gruesome crimes from the
paper and collects them in a morbid book that he made one night Oscar goes outside to play one of
his fantasies of murdering his classmates and a mysterious girl appears behind him
she quickly leaves and tells Oscar they can't be friends but she appears again
and again and slowly her and Oscar become friends and eventually more than friends
Eli is a vampire over 200 years old but stuck in the body of a 12 year old
as she says I'm 12 but I've been 12 for a long time they never mentioned how Eli became a vampire
in the movie because they were trying to focus more on the relationship between Oscar and Eli
in the film Oscar tells Eli I like you and she replies would you still like me if I wasn't a girl
and i thought she was referring to being a vampire but I learned in the book
that Eli's name was originally Elias and he's a boy a vampire nobleman turned Elias into a
vampire and removed his genitals Elias now goes by Eli wears girl clothes and basically lives
as a female there is a scene in the movie when Oscar tries to spy on Eli while she's getting
changed and it shows a bizarre partial frontal nude shot I was shocked and confused so I had to
look up what was the deal with this shot it turns out the point was not to show Eli's genitals but
lack thereof which explains why Oscar seemed so shocked and ran away to make Eli seem more mature
for her age and the gender more ambiguous they had an older actor do Eli's voice dubs
it is strange why a 200 year old vampire would be interested in a 12 year old Oscar
but maybe because she is stuck at the biological age of 12
her brain cannot develop anymore so even though she is over 200
and pretty intelligent she still only has the brain development and maturity of a child
Eli must consume blood to survive it seems like she can go a few days without blood before she
starts to become hungry if she sees blood like when Oscar cut his hand Eli has a hard
time controlling herself and has to run away to stop herself from harming Oscar this could also
be a factor of her young age an older vampire might possibly be able to control themselves
when she first meets Oscar he makes a comment that she smells funny
later Eli feeds on someone and the next time when talking to Oscar asks if she still smells
some people think that because Eli hadn't fed in a while that possibly she smelt of decay
since vampires need blood and the life within it having no blood causes them to start to die
later when Eli fed on someone it presumably made the smell go away because Oscar didn't
say anything but others think that she decided to bathe because she liked Oscar and that's why
she smelled better Hakan even made a comment to ally asking her why is she bathing all of a sudden
while I do think that's possible I think it was the fact that she hadn't fed on blood
how does someone else become a vampire well you must be bitten
or have an exchange of blood somehow if Eli bites someone and they die they won't become a vampire
they must live to become a vampire if the person Eli bit survives like Virginia then they will
fully turn within 24 hours when virginia woke up the next day she was already burned by sunlight
Eli needs to feed but doesn't always get her own blood because it's dangerous and if she's
seen feeding that could also be very bad Eli lives with Hakan strangers think he's Eli's
father but he is actually her familiar he used to be a teacher but he lost his job because it
was discovered that he was a pedophile Eli met him while he was homeless on the street and helped him
Hakan became her familiar protecting her and helping her get blood by murdering people draining
their blood and getting rid of the bodies however he was not so good at this and it angered Eli
he fell in love with Eli but she never felt the same way
eventually he gave her a choice love him or he won't get her blood anymore
which led her to going out on her own and viciously attacking a man under a bridge
Hakan always carries a jar of acid on him in case he ever gets caught he can disfigure himself so
he will be unrecognizable and nothing can be traced back to Eli eventually ha khan gets into
a tough situation and he has no choice but to pour the acid on himself leaving him horribly
disfigured Eli visits him in the hospital and feeds on him and lets him fall to his death
such a visceral scene in the book Eli is interrupted while feeding on Hakon which still
leads to him falling out the window but instead of dying he came back zombified and searching for Eli
a vampire needs a familiar not only to help them get blood but to protect
them during the day when they are vulnerable some argue that Eli might not truly love
Oscar but might be simply grooming him to be her next familiar through the movie she
encourages him to kill by saying things like be like me a little and the first time Eli met Oscar
he was playing out a fantasy of killing his school bullies and it didn't seem to phase her
at all personally I just think they're two broken people to make a hole as scary as they might be
Eli is over 200 years old and still appears as a small child so I think it's safe to
say these vampires are truly immortal usually Eli appears as a normal child
but when enraged or stimulated by blood her eyes change and her skin appears more grey
these vampires are cold to the touch at least according to Oscar and they are not affected
by the weather it's winter in Sweden and Eli is often wearing no winter clothes
and if they can't produce body heat then they probably don't have a heartbeat
Eli sleeps in the bathtub during the day with blankets over this might serve the
same function as a coffin these vampires also hibernate for long periods of time
if a vampire lives for 500 years they will be asleep for roughly half that time
Eli has much greater strength and speed than a human and can climb and scale walls like
Spider-Man as well as fly she is never fully seen while flying so it's not clear if she
grows some kind of wings or just floats like the lost boys either way her flight ability is
quite strong as she was able to carry someone and drag them through the water while flying
like most vampires Eli also has enhanced senses like hearing and scent able to easily smell blood
from a far distance when Eli smells or sees blood it causes her fangs to come out these vampires
have two fangs on their top row of teeth and they are usually not visible at all until they feed as
far as supernatural or magic like abilities Eli can hypnotize people like compulsion and can
also transfer memories via touch in the novel Eli does this to show Oscar how she was turned
Eli has an egg full of jewelry she says if you sold that egg you could buy a nuclear power
plant Oscar asks if she stole it but Eli says no people gave it to me Eli could steal these
things obviously but probably uses her ability of compulsion to just make people give her these
things this is how she can afford a place to live for her and Hakan even though he didn't have a job
you can see this ability on display a bit when Eli walks into the hospital a woman behind the
counter seems a little shocked Eli's alone but can't help but answer all of her questions in the
book it mentions that the woman felt compelled to give her something but she didn't know why
now let's take a look at how you can kill these vampires
vampires from let the right one in can be killed with fire a stake through the heart
and of course decapitation and sunlight UV rays from the sun will burn a vampire skin
but even just a few seconds of exposure will cause a vampire to burst into flames
these vampires are not shown being weak to any kind of silver or holy objects however they must
be invited into a home to enter Eli tells Oscar you must invite me in and he says what happens if
you come in but Eli doesn't move Oscar beckons her in non-verbally but when she enters she
begins to shake and then begins to bleed out of her scalp eyes ears nose pretty much everywhere
Oscar panics and starts yelling you can come in and the bleeding stops so Oscar kind of
nodding his head for her to come in was not enough he had to say aloud you can come in
vampires also need an invitation for different entrances if you invite a vampire in your front
door they will still not be able to enter through any other door or window Eli was
invited into Oscar's house but she needed to be invited again in order to get through his window
something else i would consider a weakness is the vampire's need or reliance on a familiar
vampires or at least Eli need a familiar to get them blood when they're too weak to hunt
and to protect them vampires are very vulnerable when they rest during the day
when Eli was sleeping a man almost came in and killed her lucky that Oscar was there without
a familiar a vampire probably would not survive long vampires might also need a familiar to get
blood when they are trying to lay low vampires cannot consume regular food at all only blood
Oscar gives Eli some food to try and shortly after she has to go behind the building and get sick
i think she did this to show Oscar she can't eat regular food
I'm not sure if this would be considered a weakness but cats Virginia's accidentally turned
into a vampire by Eli and the next day when she enters her friend's home the cats start to hiss
and then all the cats begin to attack her even following her down the hallway and causing her
to fall down the stairs many stories involving vampires or evil make use of cats like Keanu
Reeves said they're half in half out Egyptians thought cats had a connection to the mortal realm
and the underworld some old Egyptian lore said the cats guarded the underworld and stopped
souls from escaping they could also send evil souls that do not belong in the mortal realm
back to the underworld since vampires are undead cats might see them as something
that doesn't belong in our world one of the best known Egyptian gods is Bastet
appearing as a woman with a cat head she is seen as a goddess of many things but
among them a protector against disease and evil spirits since cats attacked Virginia
it makes me wonder where the origins of this vampirism comes from and if it's rooted in evil
the writer of let the right one in also wrote a book called
let the old dreams die that was published in 2005. it's a collection of short stories that
includes an epilogue to let the right one in the story follows the man who punched
Oscar's ticket at the end of the movie to board the train and his girlfriend
that's my video on let the right one in by far one of the most unique vampire movies I've ever seen
and one of the best similar to 30 days of night this movie does not glamorize being a vampire
it's dark if you haven't seen it definitely watch it but it's a Swedish film so you'll have to watch
with subtitles if that's not your cup of tea there is an English remake that people also said
was great so you could watch that I recently did a poll of what video game series I should cover
since I've never covered a video game before and Vampire The Masquerade one
so expect a video on that eventually I've had a lot of requests and heard
nothing but praise for Legacy of Kane so I'll definitely be covering that game too
as always if there's any movies or tv shows you'd like me to cover please let me know I've seen some
of you suggesting the new anime vampires in the garden if you enjoyed the video leave a
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