Blog: Captain Obvious

Celluloid It's fitting that Tomas Alfredson's film Let The Right One In derives its title from the Morrissey song "Let The Right One Slip In," which reads "I'd say you were within your rights to bite." The Swedish vampire flick, which owes its beautiful imagery to cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, proves that horror doesn't necessarily have to consist of shaky-camera techniques and nothing-left-to-the-imaginatio n gore. The story is relatively simple. An isolated, bullied outcast named Oskar befriends his [...]