Let Me In

Indie, Horror
4 stars
Dark and creepy. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) stars as lonely boy who is brutally bullied by his classmates. While brooding alone in the playground, he meets a strange girl who appears to be abused, Chloe Moretz ((500) Days of Summer), and who has just moved to town with the always talented Richard Jenkins (The Visitor). Chloe is a child vampire and while the murder scenes are gruesome, this not a body-falling-into-the-camera-every-ten-minutes sort of horror movie. This is an art house film that moves along deliberately with a slow burn effect, much the way The American with George Clooney was filmed. I liked it, especially since it’s portrayed from the young boy’s perspective, but it’s only for folks who are accustomed to art house style films.