Let the Right One In

Oskar lives with his mum in a high-rise building in the western suburbs of Stockholm. It’s the early eighties, and he likes listening to Kiss on his Walkman, solving puzzles (including the Rubik’s Cube), and pasting grisly murder stories from the newspaper into his scrapbook. A victim of bullying, Oskar doesn’t have many school friends but is interested in the strange new neighbour next door. Eli introduces herself, but she’s a little strange—she smells bad, doesn’t feel the cold at all, even…