Season 5: Episode 239 - KINGS OF HORROR: Let The Right One In (john Ajvide Lindqvist) / Film: 2008)

Book:

Let the Right One In

By John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Film:

Let the Right One In (2008)

 

The story centers on the relationship between a 12-year-old boy, Oskar, and a centuries-old vampire child, Eli. It takes placein Blackeberg, a working-class suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. The book focuses on the darker side of humanity, dealing with thematically heavy issues such as existential anxiety, social isolation, fatherlessness, divorce, alcoholism, school bullying, paedophilia, genital mutilation, self-mutilation, and murder.

 

Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay.  film adaptation of Lindqvist's novel began development in 2004 when John Nordling acquired the rights to produce the project. Alfredson, unconcerned with the horror and vampire conventions, decided to tone down many elements of the novel and focus primarily on the relationship between the two main characters and explore the darker side of humanity.

 

We are joined by novelist Matthew Brockmeyer and writer, director, producer and novelist C. Derick Miller.

 

Opening Credits; Introduction (1.44); Plot Synopsis (15.44); Forming the Plot (17.53); Book Thoughts (23.39); Scoring The Book (1:26.19 ); Introducing a Film (1:36.10); Film Trailer (1:37.52);  Lights, Camera, Action (1:39.35); Epilogue (2:50.56); End Credits (2:54.17); Closing Credits (2:57.09)

 

Opening Credits– Classical Jingle by Dan Hughes

 

Closing Credits – Let Me In by Laura Branigan.  Taken from the album Laura Branigan. Copyright 1990 Atlantic Records

 

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