Calling to mind the work of Anne Rice and Stephen King, atmospheric adaptation of Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist's bestseller is well directed by his countryman Tomas Alfredson. full review

An American remake seems inevitable, but it will be hard to re-create the haunting spell cast by this wonderfully strange film about being young and going steady with a monster. full review

John Ajvide Lindqvist's script (from his novel) nails adolescent pain perfectly and is realized by Tomas Alfredson's expert direction. full review

A really nice little movie. full review

This is a really good movie. full review

[Director Tomas] Alfredson's style is as elegant and laconic as Twilight is amateurish and campy. full review

Let the Right One In is one of the essential horror films of the decade. It's also one of the most enthralling romances and one of the best films about children. full review

Funny, fear-inducing, with periods of voyeuristic gore and an undercurrent of anxiety and dread, Let the Right One In is up there with the bloodsucking classics. full review

Like the best vampire sagas, the film is rife with aching melancholy and existential crises. Its haunting beauty isn't marred, but complemented by strong, disquieting images. full review

The beauty of Let the Right One In resides in the way the horror remains grounded in a tragic kind of love. full review

The Scandinavian moodiness of the first half gives way to a series of jolting set pieces in the second. full review

Remove the vampire elements, and this is the story of two lonely and desperate kids capable of performing dark deeds without apparent emotion. full review

I'm so sick of Swedish vampire movies, aren't you? ... If you can stomach just one more, however, "Let the Right One In" is the Swedish vampire movie to see. The film is terrific. full review

Its portrayal of the relationship between two improbably alike pre-teens is more believable than what we see in many 'realistic' dramas. full review

Let the Right One In strikes a surprising array of notes: scary, sad and hopeful. full review

A spectacularly moving and elegant movie, and to dismiss it into genre-hood, to mentally stuff it into the horror pigeonhole, is to overlook a remarkable film. full review

The exceptional Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In warms your heart as it chills your blood, and that's the most disturbing thing about it. full review

A terrific Halloween surprise. full review

A wicked trick, a cinematic treat, this is some Halloween offering. full review

Just when you think you've seen pretty much everything that can be done with that exhausted horror genre, the vampire picture, somebody comes along with a new twist. full review