Twilight Without Sparkles (Let the Right One In Review)

Kat and Ryley watch a wintertime horror film. Kat picked Let the Right One In (2008).

REVIEW OVERVIEW: This is not a romance; it's a horror about a young boy being groomed by an old vampire. Not unlike Twilight.
Since the film adaptation chose to keep things ambiguous, there might be confusion when the credits roll. This confusion can be cleared up by looking into the source material, OR you can come up with your own interpretations.
Either way, the film is beautiful and tense. The cold atmosphere is juxtaposed with the bright reds sprinkled throughout. The camera work and the score shine the brightest. The acting is also outstanding, even outside of just child acting.
It might not become your favourite film, but it is one of the best horror films ever.
Ryley: 7/10
Kat: 8/10

Both: [00:00:00] Hello

Kat: and welcome to

Both: Easy Bake Takes

Ryley: the podcast.

Kat: Where we read you the one star reviews of your favorite movies and more. My name's Kat

Ryley: and I'm Ryley.

Kat: And y'all voted for winter horror. So we're doing winter horror, and I picked a vampire movie called Let the Right One in from a little place called Sweden. This movie was released in 2008 in Sweden, and then in 2009 it was released in the US on DVD and Blu-Ray. It's categorized as a horror romance, and its runtime is an hour and 54 minutes long. So the plot, Oskar, a meek 12 year old boy lives with his mother, Yvonne, in the Western Stockholm suburb of Blackenberg in 1982. He is regularly bullied by his classmates and spends his evenings imagining revenge, collecting clippings [00:01:00] from newspapers and magazines about murders. One night-

Ryley: Normal.

Kat: He meets Eli, who appears to be a pale girl of his age. Eli recently moved into the next door apartment with an older man, Hakan. Didn't look up the pronunciation on that one, so I apologize.

Ryley: That's fine.

Kat: Eli initially tells Oskar they can't be friends. Over time, however, they begin to form a relationship and exchange Morse code messages through their adjoining walls. Eli learns that Oskar is being bullied by classmates and encourages him to stand up for himself. Oskar signs up for weight training classes after school earlier. Hakan stops and kills a passerby on a footpath to harvest blood for Eli, but is interrupted by an approaching dog walker. Eli is prompted to waylay and kill a local man, Jocke, making his way home after having said goodnight to his best friend, Lacke. Gösta, a recluse, witnesses the attack from his flat, but in disbelief decides not to report the incident. Hakan hides Jocke's body in an ice hole in the local lake. Hakan makes another effort to obtain blood for Eli by [00:02:00] trapping a teenage boy in a changing room after school. When he is about to be discovered by the boy's friends, Hakan pours hydrochloric acid onto his own face, disfiguring it to prevent authorities from identifying him. Eli visits Hakan in the hospital. Hakan offers his own blood to Eli and Eli drains him. Eli goes to Oskar's apartment and spends the night with him during which time they agree to go steady, though, Eli states, I'm not a girl. During an ice skating field trip to the lake. Some of Oskar's classmates discover Jocke's body. At the same time, the bullies again harass Oskar, who hits their leader Conny in the head with a metal pole splitting his ear. Sometime later, unaware that Eli is a vampire, Oskar suggests that they form a blood bond and cuts his hand, asking Eli to do the same. Eli, not wanting to hurt Oskar, laps up his blood before running away. Lacke's girlfriend, Virginia, is subsequently attacked by Eli. Virginia survives, but discovers that she has become painfully sensitive to sunlight. Virginia visits Gösta, only to be attacked by his cats. Soon after [00:03:00] this, Oskar confronts Eli, who admits to being a vampire. Oskar is initially upset by Eli's need to kill people for survival. However, Eli insists that they are alike in that Oskar wants to kill and Eli needs to kill and encourages Oskar to 'be me' for a little while. In the hospital, Virginia asks an orderly to open the blinds in her room. The sunlight streams in and Virginia bursts into flame. Lacke tracks Eli down to the apartment. Breaking in, he discovers Eli asleep in the bathtub. He prepares to kill Eli, but Oskar interferes. Eli wakes up, jumps on Lacke and feeds on his blood, killing him. Eli thanks Oskar, and kisses him. However, an upstairs neighbor is angrily knocking on the ceiling due to the disturbance. Eli realizes it's not safe to stay and leaves that night. The next morning, Oskar is lured out to resume the afterschool fitness program at the local swimming pool. The bullies, led by Conny and his older brother Jimmy, start a fire to draw Mr. Avila, the supervising teacher, outside. They enter the pool area and order everybody but Oskar to leave. [00:04:00] Jimmy forces Oskar underwater threatening to stab his eye out if he doesn't hold his breath for three minutes. While Oskar is underwater, Eli rescues him by killing and dismembering the bullies, except for the most reluctant, Andreas, who is left sobbing on a bench. Later, Oskar is traveling on a train with Eli in a box beside. Him from inside Eli taps the word kiss to Oskar and morse code, to which he taps back small kiss. The end.

Ryley: It's a messed up movie.

Kat: Okay. So this movie was directed by Tomas Alfredson and John Ajvide Lindqvist wrote the novel of the same name and the screenplay. And the cinematography was done by Hoyte Van Hoytema who did the cinematography for Nope, Tent, Interstellar Dunkirk and Her.

Ryley: Whoa.

Kat: Among Others.

Ryley: Wow. Okay.

Kat: Very good Cinematographer.

Ryley: Very good.

Kat: And so the cast Kåre Hedebrant plays Oskar. Lina Leanderson plays Eli, but is voiced by Elif Ceylan and an [00:05:00] aged Eli is played by Susan Ruben. Per Ragnar plays Hakan. Peter Carlber, Karen Bergquist, Henrik Dahl, and Ika Nord are the other cast members. So some trivia. The budget was 4.5 million, and at the box office they made 11.2 million. Development of this novel began in 2004 when producer John Nordling acquired the rights to produce the project. Alfredson initially expressed skepticism about Lindqvist writing the screenplay, but found the end result very satisfying. Lindqvist was satisfied with the adaptation as well. When Alfredson showed him eight minutes of footage for the first time, he cried at how beautiful it was and describes the film as a masterpiece.

Ryley: Hmm.

Kat: Director 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 main characters and explore the darker side of humanity. Many minor characters from the book were removed from the screenplay. The character of Hakan was toned down, particularly the fact of him being a pedophile and his relationship with [00:06:00] Eli was mostly left to interpretation. Alfredson felt that the film could not deal with a serious manner like pedophilia in a satisfying way and that it would detract from the story of the children and their relationship. However, the film still provided a few hints at Hakan being a pedophile. In the novel, this is another thing that was sort of changed.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Eli is presented as an androgynous boy that was castrated centuries before by a sadistic vampire nobleman. The film handles Eli's gender more ambiguously. So did you pick up on Hakan maybe being a pedophile?

Ryley: I had my theories about Hakan and I ended up like researching the movie a little bit more cuz I just, a list of questions and IMDB actually had a list of questions that people had and answered them.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: So I found a lot of information through that, but I had my own theories about Hakan in the movie. So when I watched this movie, I assumed, and this is given that Eli is a vampire and it's probably, I, I think in the novel it's 220 years old, but in the movie it's, it's very, it's very, like, there [00:07:00] isn't a significant date, so you just assume that she's very old.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And so I, you can assume like maybe she's a, at least a hundred years old or something like that, or she's very old.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I assumed Hakan at one point was an Oskar's place.

Kat: That's interesting.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. I assume Eli for however long she has lived, has always needed help from someone. And the way that. I mean, basically grooms Oskar.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I assume she's done that probably several times before with different, different boys.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: As she doesn't age. They do. And forever long that they stay around or live, you know?

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: with her, like it's, I assumed Hakan was in the same situation.

Kat: Yeah. Honestly, that's a pretty sound theory to make.

Ryley: That's what I thought.

Kat: Yeah. And he's just like attached to her.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. Because I assume like, well, there's gotta be a reason why he's willing to do all this stuff for her and kill people for her and move around and just off their relationship too there's that very creepy, and this is where it could play into like, it's a pedophile. They're in the [00:08:00] kitchen and he's talking about the acid.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: She place his hand on him and it's like very weird.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But I always thought, and you know, and that can be interpreted that he's a pedophile course, but I always interpreted that. I was like, oh, it's like when he. Because like I assumed there they had.

Kat: The romance is still there with her kind of thing.

Ryley: Yeah, like from when they first met. That's what I assumed, but that was my, that was my theory of who Hakan was and why he was doing all this stuff.

Kat: Yeah, I think that's a, that's a really good theory.

Ryley: I mean, there's other interpretations. Definitely.

Kat: Mm-hmm. I think without explaining that in the movie or like leaving that part out of it, I appreciate that they recognized like, we can't handle this topic correctly, so we're not gonna put it in there.

Ryley: I, I like the interpretation more.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I, you know.

Kat: Leaving it open.

Ryley: Yeah. I like that more, honestly.

Kat: Mm-hmm. Yeah. But the next trivia fact I have is that late into production, it was decided that Lina Leanderson's voice would be replaced by a darker voice. Elif Ceylan was chosen for her less feminine, more androgynous tone. Sound designer [00:09:00] Per Sundström stated that her voice also made the character more threatening.

Ryley: She has a deep voice.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: And then this next one, I just thought this sounded like something both of us might say.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Just this first part of it. The second part, not so much.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: A friend introduced Tomas Alfredson to the novel. While he normally does not like to receive books because it's a private thing to choose what to read.

Ryley: Okay.

Kat: Don't tell me what to read, I'll read what I want. He decided after a few weeks to read it. And then, the depiction of bullying in the novel affected Alfredson. So he connected to the bullying aspect of it.

Ryley: Yeah. It's like when we suggest like, oh, you need to watch this TV show, and you're like, yeah, definitely. And you won't watch it for another two years or something like that.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It's not that I don't want to, it's just like, but like, I'm gonna come around to it when I'm ready.

Kat: I decide when I watch it.

Ryley: I decide when to watch it. You can suggest it all day long and I'll write it down. I'll probably watch it eventually in the future.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But give me a minute.

Kat: Yeah. It, the timing needs to be right.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: The next fact, they filmed in rooms with no ceilings, [00:10:00] which made various overhead lighting techniques possible. Most of the filming used a single fixed Arri 535 B camera with little to no handheld usage and very few cuts. Tracking shots were made with a track mounted dolly rather than a steady cam to create calm, predictable camera movement.

Ryley: Hmm.

Kat: And then Hoytema and Alfredson invented a lighting technique they called spray light, which Hoytema described as, "if you capture dull electrical light in a can and spray it like hairspray across Eli's apartment, it would have the same result as we created." So like a spray of light.

Ryley: Hmm.

Kat: Basically, I don't think they invented that. I think that's just using diffused light.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: But go off, I guess.

Ryley: Okay. I guess.

Kat: The Jungle Gym in the film was made specifically for the film. It was designed with the intention to fit the Cinemascope format better than a regular jungle gym, which would've been too tall and had, they would've had to crop it off.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: The CGI was intended to be very subtle and almost unnoticeable. The cat attack scene specifically was the most complicated to film. It required several weeks of drafting and planning. The crew [00:11:00] used a combination of real cats, stuffed cats and cgi. What did you think of that?

Ryley: I, the CGI is

Kat: It is minimal.

Ryley: It's minimal.

Kat: They don't use it a whole lot.

Ryley: They don't. But you can tell when they do.

Kat: Mm-hmm. It is 2009.

Ryley: It is 2009. So to give them credit, it was probably really good for that time.

Kat: You know what also came out around this time?

Ryley: What?

Kat: Twilight.

Ryley: Ah, yes.

Kat: So let's compare it to that CGI.

Ryley: Let's compare it. It's pretty good when comparing it too. That's hilarious. I love that. These two films. Oh my god. Two vampire movies in the same year. Crazy.

Kat: Mm-hmm. . It was the five year span of vampires.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. That's hilarious.

Kat: That's what I just kept thinking about the whole time I was watching. I was like, this was the, this was the Twilight Era. This was the fucking Twilight era.

Ryley: That's hilarious.

Kat: Several tricks were used to create the right sound effects for some of the gorier scenes. They used biting sausages to replace the biting of flesh and skin sounds.

Ryley: Ew.

Kat: They would use drinking yogurt as the sound of drinking blood, and the sound of children blinking was made with the sound [00:12:00] of grapes rubbing together in an almost blinking motion. So some Foley artists had to sit there with grapes.

Ryley: Ew wait to make blinking noise.

Kat: Yeah, I don't think I noticed the blinking noise.

Ryley: I, I don't even know. I don't even understand. I do not understand any of that.

Kat: Fucking grape skin.

Ryley: Ugh. Ew.

Kat: Oh my God. The word vampires only said one time in this film.

Ryley: Yeah. He, when he asked her. Mm-hmm.

Kat: Mm-hmm. Both of the writer and director, admitted that they do not like or care for vampires.

Ryley: I don't either. Yeah, they're very parasitic, you know.

Kat: Mm-hmm they are.

Ryley: I have a hard time. I don't like the character. I don't like Eli. I like the character of Eli like.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But I don't, I don't like her. You know?

Kat: No, I, I, yeah.

Ryley: I guess we can get into that, but later, but.

Kat: Yeah, we'll come back to that.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But I, I, I think I get what you mean.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: And I was reading something actually, in one of my horror textbooks that I didn't read when I watched this movie.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: in my horror, my horror film class. But it was talking about how the [00:13:00] metaphor of a vampire has changed and how a lot of like theories about what vampires represent is from like a Western lens.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: And in a lot of like non-Western countries, their idea of vampires is a lot more about the US and the uk.

Ryley: Mm.

Kat: But it seems like this movie, they kind of hint at it a little that it's a little Soviet.

Ryley: Mm, yes they do. I remember seeing that.

Kat: Mm-hmm. They do, they do talk about it in the bar.

Ryley: It's talk- yeah, they do talk about it a little bit, so I, I can understand.

Kat: But yeah, so it's, it was just interesting to see that like in Western cultures, vampires are more for like masculinity, fighting against men being feminine.

Ryley: That's interesting.

Kat: Cuz vampires are categorized, especially really old vampires as being a little more a effeminate and the person who's fighting them is usually a little more masculine.

Ryley: That I do understand that reading. Wait, wait, wait. The vampires are effeminate.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: That makes sense because when I was in my gender horror [00:14:00] class, one of the first things we watched was Dracula, like the original, I think, I think the universal one.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And there's that scene where his first victim is, oh, his assistant Dracula's wives are all trying to corner Radcliffe to eat him and Dracula. He comes in and he shoves them away, or doesn't really shove, but like he put, you know, gets 'em away from Radcliffe and, and he bites his neck. One of those things where my teacher, Benshoff, he paused it and went bisexual at the very least . So, yeah, I can understand that.

Kat: Mm-hmm, because they, yeah, they're, they're vampires are inherently a little more eroticized.

Ryley: Yes. Mm-hmm.

Kat: and queer coded kind of.

Ryley: Yeah. Edward Cullen.

Kat: Yes.

Ryley: But yes, vampires are, well, I mean, that's a cultural thing that vampires are very erotic, eroticized.

Kat: Mm-hmm. In this one, a lot of people see this movie, and we'll see this when we get into the audience reviews, exploring gender is like how a lot of people relate to this movie, with Eli being non-binary or being gender fluid.

Ryley: [00:15:00] Mm-hmm.

Kat: That's kind of how this movie was received by the queer community a little more.

Ryley: Okay. I understand.

Kat: Yeah. And I don't fully know if the movie did that as intentionally as it people have taken it.

Ryley: If it's not that, I don't know why it's in the movie at all if it's not meant to be that, you know?

Kat: Yeah. It's, it seemed more stressed in the book.

Ryley: Yes. Well, there's more backstory in the book about it too. Like there's more of a clarification of why in this movie it's very, it's very ambiguous, like.

Mm-hmm.

If you didn't know anything about the book, you wouldn't, you wouldn't know why it's actually hu- uh, it's a huge question mark in the book.

Kat: Yeah. It's troubling when you leave that out. . And if you're looking at it from a gender aspect.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Cause it's like, what are you saying? You know?

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: ut the last two trivia facts I have, the entire crew is visible in the reflection of the glass at the opposite end of the swimming pool hall when the three bullies enter the scene.

Ryley: Love it.

Kat: And then a Showtime series spinoff was made and it's like coming out like now.

Ryley: [00:16:00] Oh.

Kat: I think episodes have already come out. Does not seem well received at all.

Ryley: Mm.

Kat: And there was also an American remake called Let Me In, which in my opinion is not as good, but that's usually the case.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But yeah. So that's the last trivia fact I have. What did you think about this movie?

Ryley: This movie is very like for, from a horror aspect, I think it's actually really good cuz there's like, it's a well written movie.

Kat: Mm-hmm. It's beautiful too.

Ryley: It is beautiful. It's creepy though in so many ways. Like it's creepy because like, Vampire stuff, but also just like the stuff going on between Eli and Hakan and Eli and Oskar. I mean, I think Eli is predatory as well.

Kat: Oh yeah.

Ryley: Eli, if you're taking the information for the book, is over 200 years old.

Kat: And even if it's the movie, just guessing,

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: Definitely older than 12, you know?

Ryley: Yeah. Def Well, I mean, she's, I mean, Eli says I've been, I've been 12 for a long time like it.

Kat: Wait. That's from Twilight. She says 12 more or less.

Ryley: No, but she says, she says that in the movie too she-

Kat: Oh, she says that too.

Ryley: She says I've been 12 for a long time.

Kat: I was about to [00:17:00] say that's in Twilight too. How long have

Ryley: They do though.

Kat: You been 17?

Ryley: A long time. It is the same thing.

Kat: But I did write down it's, it's very Edward and Bella.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. Yes it is. It's, it's predatory. It's, and Eli is definitely grooming Oskar. Well, Eli- Eli's using Oskar, like she's using Hakan and that's why I, I saw, that's why I kinda interpreted Hawk and like Hakan and Oskar are in the same. You know, um, and she needs to replace Hakan cuz Hakan is like messing up Hakans not doing the job. Eli.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: You know, I guess not hired him to do but like picked him out to do and.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: She treats him awful. And then, I mean, you can interpret that in different ways, but like, you know, she's not nice to him, hakan.

Kat: Yeah. No.

Ryley: You can tell she doesn't care about him.

Kat: No, you're right. She doesn't, it doesn't seem like she cares about him.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: It seems like it's definitely coming from more of a selfish place.

Ryley: Yeah. She uses him.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: She needs him to get food. Mm that's about it.

Kat: Because I, I could also see her character like, cause I guess she does take his blood, but he offers it.

Ryley: He offers [00:18:00] it.

Kat: She never took it, but that doesn't mean she cares, it just means if she took his blood, no one would be able to get blood for her.

Ryley: Yeah, exactly. She's gonna use him until she can anymore And it's a,-

Kat: Yeah. She's gonna bleed 'em dry.

Ryley: Yeah, exactly. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. So what I was saying earlier is like, I don't like Eli's care or I don't like Eli cuz Eli is a parasite.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Eli is, you know, grooming Oskar, is manipulating Oskar, and she's gonna do the same thing she did with Hakan, but with Oskar, you know?

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It's just a repetitive cycle, you know?

Kat: Yeah. She could only let go of Hakan when-

Ryley: she has no use for him anymore.

Kat: Yeah. But Will, will she turn Oskar into a vampire or will it take convincing?

Ryley: Yeah, I read some people saying that I don't, I, in my opinion when watching the movie.

Kat: That's more mouths to feed.

Ryley: That's more mouth to feed also. It's gonna be harder for them to move around. That's-

Kat: Two 12 year olds.

Ryley: Two 12 year olds. Like that that's no, like, that's. When watching the movie, I do not think that's gonna happen. I think Eli's gonna do the same thing she did with Hakan and use [00:19:00] him until she can't anymore.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And just move on to the next person.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I think Eli's character is, is not, you know, you call it this movie's is genre of romance. I don't, I don't think it is. I think it's all manipulative. I think it's all all so Eli can just use the next person.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It's Eli's survival.

Kat: Mm-hmm it's romance in Oskar's eyes.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: but not in Eli's.

Ryley: Exactly. That's what I was thinking with Eli and how I think about the whole movie too.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Because I don't like vampires as well.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: They're parasites, literally.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I don't like them. They don't have good intentions. There's never good intentions. Let's talk about Edward. I mean, Edward's bad, not- not even in the context of of vampire. He's just bad to get so many red flags about that.

Kat: He a terrible boyfriend.

Ryley: Terrible boyfriend.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But yeah, in the context of a vampire as well, it's just, I, they, they're not good.

Kat: Like you said. They're parasites.

Ryley: They are.

Kat: Whether or not they're drinking your blood, they will be training you of something.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. Yes. You got some zingers today.

Kat: Thank you. [00:20:00] I'm on my game today. Did you have anything else that you wanted to say?

Ryley: Uh, not right now. That was like my big thing that I wanted to say. Oh.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: You know what I do actually, Oskar needs to get a tissue because that boy,

Kat: Yes, I was-

Ryley: Was snotting all throughout that movie. That was nasty.

Kat: I was thinking, thought, I was like, ugh, that's like a crusty little 12 year old. No offense to the actor, they just should have wiped his nose or something.

Ryley: Hey, wipe your nose. And I get it. It's cold outside. It happens, but it's just like, ew, .

Kat: At least make, make him like do the gross kid thing of like using your sleeve. At least. You know?

Ryley: He literally took his dad's jacket and did that to his dads jacket immediately after putting it on.

Kat: Not my jacket.

Ryley: Not my jacket. Not that red jacket. What was it? And his character, he, he's a 12 year old boy, but I guess that doesn't excuse the fact that he's a little psycho .

Kat: Literally, I wrote, I wrote, Oskar's a little crazy Pants.

Ryley: He is a little crazy pants and I get it. He's being bullied, but like.

Kat: School shooter for sure.

Ryley: Yeah, he's got school shooter vibes hardcore.

Kat: He, he's very, obviously, it doesn't seem like he's getting much attention at home.

Ryley: No. [00:21:00] I, I think I read his dad's an alcoholic, which.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: That whole scene was very weird and I did not know what was going on.

Kat: Until the drink comes out?

Ryley: Not even really, cuz I was like, who's this guy? Why is he, why is he just randomly walking into the house?

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Why is he acting really, really weird? He's a like, it's like, I thought they were like-

Kat: Gay lovers?

Ryley: I thought, I thought it was that at first.

Kat: That's what I thought.

Ryley: No, I really did. I thought that was that. I was like, oh, okay. His dad is gay and that's o okay. But it really, it wasn't that at all. It's like.

Kat: No.

Ryley: He's an alcoholic or something. But it's like the, how the guy was acting, I thought I didn't know what was gonna happen. I didn't know who this guy was. I didn't know.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: That was such an off scene.

Kat: It was. But once the drink gets put down for me, I was like, oh, okay. The, the way that he's looking at Oskar, he knows he's not supposed to be doing this.

Ryley: Yeah. Which makes sense. But that guy that comes in is so weird and off putting.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It just threw the whole thing off for me.

Kat: That's fair.

Ryley: So that was a weird scene.

Kat: I don't feel bad for Oskar. Like, his life is sad though.

Ryley: His life [00:22:00] is sad.

Kat: I understand why he's doing that. Doesn't mean it's okay.

Ryley: No.

Kat: I don't pity that kid.

Ryley: Yeah, exactly. It's like any kid that goes to a school and does bad things, it's, it's like, um.

Kat: Something's happening at home.

Ryley: Usually something's happening at home. Some being bullied. I understand, but it's like, it's not an excuse. It's not an excuse whatsoever.

Kat: And what they do to him isn't okay either.

Ryley: No. Course not. Oskar is a weird character cuz like he does have those like school shooter vibes, but it's like also when he sees. Eli kill Lacke he, you know, he's disturbed by it. Cuz I think, I think as, when you're a kid, when you actually see something horrific like that, it's going to, you know, you think one way and then you actually see it and it's just like-

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It's very different. It's very shocking. It's very, disturbing.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And so he, he sees it for the first time. It's like, it's not, I don't think it's something he ever actually wanted.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: If that makes sense, you know?

Kat: No, it, it reminds me of did you ever watch End of the Fucking World? Yes. The kid who thinks he's like a sociopath, but he like sees the girl doing crazy shit.

Ryley: [00:23:00] Mm-hmm.

Kat: And he's like, I might not be a sociopath. Gives me that kind of vibe where.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: It's like he thinks that he would be able to do something that heinous.

Ryley: Well, he's a child too.

Kat: He's hyped his own anger up and like he, he believes that that's the way to.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Like, make himself feel better.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But seeing somebody actually do it in front of you.

Ryley: It's very different.

Kat: Oh, that's, that was hard to watch. Imagine doing it.

Ryley: Exactly. And also he rejects his, uh, he rejects Eli's money.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Uh, he's like, I don't wanna take that money cuz that's the money you took from people you've killed. So like, there is a-

Kat: He has morals.

Ryley: He has morals. It, it comes through later in the movie.

Kat: You see with his character that he at least wouldn't be capable of it. Which confuses me as to why Eli would choose him.

Ryley: Because all he did was warn Eli that Lacke was in the bathroom.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: That's it. That's all he did. He took out his knife, but he didn't, he didn't stab him or anything. He didn't do anything to him. It is interesting why Eli did choose Oskar, but I think it's one of those things where Eli could force or [00:24:00] manipulate Oskar to end up doing it because of the relationship that she's established with them, and she can manipulate him into doing whatever she wanted. That's what I think. That's how I interpret it.

Kat: Yeah. No, and I think, I think that's valid. I think that's a valid interpretation of this. Did you have anything else you wanted to say?

Ryley: I don't think so. I think that's, I think I said everything.

Kat: Okay. I didn't have much more than that. I just, yeah. I wrote that he's, Oskar's a little crazy pants.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: With his, this murder clippings. He's got a whole binder of murder, newspaper clippings.

Ryley: See, as a mother, how do you not go, 'you need to talk to someone.'

Kat: His mom's not paying attention to him.

Ryley: Exactly. Yeah.

Kat: She tries to hide the newspaper from him, and she's probably been doing that for a while and doesn't realize that he's been taking the newspaper and clipping stuff out of it.

Ryley: Newspapers are widely, widely accessible.

Kat: Mm-hmm. I do like the color palette of this movie, like everything's muted except for the reds are really bright, like I like that aspect of it.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: Pretty obvious. Like, yeah, it's blood and [00:25:00] vampires and passion, whatever, whatever.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But it looks really cool.

Ryley: It does. especially with this background, like this snowy, you know, winter background. You have that deep red.

Kat: The cools with that yeah. I thought it was funny that Hakan forgot to put away his blood covered rain poncho on the train.

Ryley: I know he just has it sitting out.

Kat: But it reminds me of the, the poncho from American Psycho.

Ryley: Yeah. Honestly.

Kat: I wrote that something about seeing someone drink a glass of straight up milk is so gross to me.

Ryley: I never want a glass of milk, and I've never craved that. That's never something I want.

Kat: I also wanted to ask, have you ever solved the Rubik's cube before?

Ryley: No. And I don't. I don't care to.

Kat: Yeah. I just realized like I've ne We've never talked about Rubik's cubes before.

Ryley: I've looked it up like it's supposed to be like super simple as long as you do. Like-

Kat: Was Eli right? Is it the corners?

Ryley: Corners and also there's something else. There's like a trick to it.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: That's why babies can do it. Have ever seen a baby like solve a Rubic's Cube? It's because like all you have to do is teach [00:26:00] 'em that one little trick.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And you can figure out the whole thing.

Kat: Oh.

Ryley: Like, have you ever seen a three-year old do it?

Kat: No.

Ryley: Three-year-old do it all the time. I just like, oh, this is the Mars baby ever. It's really not as long as you teach 'em that one little trick. I mean, granted, it's pretty impressive that you could teach a baby that, but.

Kat: They could swim underwater when they're still infants.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: But anyway, I, as a child was, I came into possession of aerobics cube and I'm a really bad sport, so I tried to take all the stickers off and like rearrange them.

Ryley: Oh my gosh.

Kat: In the right order.

Ryley: Oh my God. Feel like it's more work.

Kat: It was, but didn't have to solve the Rubic's cube.

Ryley: Who'd you trick? Who did you, who did you trick by doing that?

Kat: I don't know. So I could just walk out with and be like, 'ta-da.'

Ryley: And it's, is this crumbling? The stickers are falling off. It's all ripped up.

Kat: They're all peeled up.

Ryley: Yeah, they're all peeled. You're like, Jesus .

Kat: I think I briefly touched on this, but the way that these kids bullied him, they held him and whipped him.

Ryley: Oh, they're a little psychopaths too.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Well, and you can also see for the big, the big brother Jimmy too [00:27:00] like where that Conny gets it.

Kat: Yeah. I also, I wrote cats hate vampires question mark?

Ryley: Yeah. That's.

Kat: Is that, has that always been a lore?

Ryley: I think it's more of like animals know stuff.

Kat: Yeah. I guess that's always a thing in horror movies.

Ryley: That is always a, like animals, somehow always know.

Kat: Yeah. They'll stare at the corner when there's nothing in it.

Ryley: You're like, 'Stop that.'

Kat: 'You're scaring me.'

Ryley: 'Please stop.'

Kat: I wrote Gösta just letting his cats attack Virginia.

Ryley: It's almost like he knew too, like he walked outside the balcony and like shut the door.

Kat: Took one cat and he just.

Ryley: One the little kittens and was like, I'm not coming in there.

Kat: Nope. He wouldn't let Lacke out.

Ryley: Yeah. He was like, 'open the door.' 'No.'

Kat: Oh my god. Poor Virginia.

Ryley: I know. I feel bad for her character.

Kat: Yeah. But that's the last thing I had. Like I said, not, not a whole lot to say. We've already kind of discussed the grooming ness of it all, but did you have anything else you wanted to say?

Ryley: Mm, not right now.

Kat: Okay. So we'll get into the critic reviews. So it has a 98% from critics and a 90% from audience on Rotten [00:28:00] Tomatoes, 7.9 outta 10 on imdb and an 82 Metacritic score. This is one of two negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ryley: Okay.

Kat: So this one is from News Blaze by Prairie Miller from March of 2009, who gave this movie two stars. And she says, quote, "a cross between a vampire after school special and an undead soap, let the right one in is a biting blend of minimalist arty antics and awkward adolescent oral fixations with fangs, but one that soon wears thin." End quote.

Ryley: I love it when critics do like little like metaphors, or not little metaphors, but like little, what is it called?

Kat: Similies?

Ryley: Yeah. Something like that.

Kat: She's using flowery language.

Ryley: Yes.

Kat: That's what I call it.

Ryley: Yeah. And it's just, it's always funny because like it means nothing most of the time.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Like we know, like they didn't like it, but it's just like, what does wear thin mean? What does that even mean? What are you saying?

Kat: It- it's not very long lasting. It like they- it gets old fast.

Ryley: Just say that.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Just say that. [00:29:00]

Kat: Use words.

Ryley: Use words.

Kat: But they also said quote, "and though Oskar as a bright boy too, his cluelessness about Eli until way into the movie when she laps a bite of his blood off the floor, is exasperating and the only real suspense in sight." End quote.

Ryley: Okay. So that is actually a pretty scary scene cuz like she's licking it up. First off, you notice that they don't show it very well, but it's her tongue is like super long. It's really gross in that way.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And then she looks up at him and all of a sudden she's aged.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And it's really disturbing and it cuts back to her real quick to like the little girl. And it's very haunting actually. It's actually one of the creepier scenes of the movie for me.

Kat: Oh yeah. And I think that's what keeps it rooted in being horror.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Not only that, but like it's one of the elements of it. I don't think I included it, but some people were like, 'I don't really think this is horror, it's marketed as a romance.'

Ryley: It has horror elements to it. Definitely. Like it's not one of the scarier movies out there, but it does have horror elements and I think that scene is one of them. It freaked me out when I first saw it, and though 'Oskar is a bright boy too, is clueless [00:30:00] about Eli until way into the movie.' I mean, I'm sorry, who just assumesb 'Oh, well they're a vampire,' who just does that, you know?

Kat: Yeah. The way that horror is defined or has tried to be defined, this is like a combination of like 10 different definitions of it by a film theorist.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: It has to evoke fear or disgust and there has to be a threat, but it's like a monster that in the world of the movie cannot be explained or isn't accepted by science.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: And you know, causes fear and disgust. So that was pretty gross.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: And is supernatural. So it is horror.

Ryley: Yeah, definitely. But no, I just, I disagree with like, oh, you know, he couldn't guess that she was a vampire right off. Well, who does ? Unless you're in that moment.

Kat: You go into that situation, you come back and you tell me that you're not gonna deny it at every step until like you can't anymore.

Ryley: Also just that's not how the movie's flowing.

Kat: No.

Ryley: The movie's flowing. You-

Kat: He's 12.

Ryley: He's gonna learned what she is when it's right to. You know?

Kat: Yeah. But the last quote I have from her is quote, "let the right one in does have some strikingly surreal scenes, though few and far [00:31:00] between. Ultimately, whether or not this film is your cup of bodily fluid will depend on your preference for vampire movies as a dish best served cold. A coming of ageless, in vampire years, prepubescent love story of sorts, which like the country, climate, and connected local mood in question, favors lethargic, introspective vampires and couch potato undead, in deep freeze." end quote.

Ryley: That was just so many words thrown together.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: That was a mess. What point were they trying to make?

Kat: They were just using clever wordplay that entire time. 'Cup of bodily fluid.'

Ryley: That meant nothing.

Kat: 'Dish best served cold,' 'coming of ageless.'

Ryley: What was their point?

Kat: There was none.

Ryley: I don't think there was either. I'm trying to figure out what they were trying to say.

Kat: Yeah, they're basically just saying they didn't like it, but there were some pretty scenes or surreal scenes.

Ryley: I think this person hardly watched the movie.

Kat: Again, one of two negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ryley: That was a bad one. That wasn't, nothing about that was valid.

Kat: Nope. Slim pickings from the negative ones.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: But the next one is from Fangoria by Michael Gingold in April [00:32:00] of 2008. They start with quote, "the log line on Let the right one in makes it sound like a lighthearted YA horror piece. But this Swedish production is so much more than that. It's thoroughly adult in tone and texture, and while it's consistently attuned to the youthful state of mind, the film refuses to sentimentalize those concerns. It's a remarkably moving and genuinely frightening evocation of childhood terrors, fantasies, and frailties, and it immediately takes its place among the classics of the vampire genre." End quote.

Ryley: I agree.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: Not to bring up Twilight again, but like, I, I wouldn't be surprised if people mistook it for like a, a YA movie.

Ryley: I can see that too. It's, it's so dark in tone though. It's so.

Kat: It's very somber.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. Melancholy even.

Kat: Mm-hmm. That's something i, I did like about it. I liked the melancholy feel of it.

Ryley: Yeah. It's so cold.

Kat: Yeah. But Gingold also notes that the filmmakers weren't trying to reinvent slash subvert vampire conventions. The conventions are respected, but tweaked at times in interesting ways. They also mentioned [00:33:00] how this is probably the first vampire film to demonstrate what happens when a vampire enters a home without an invitation.

Ryley: I wanted to talk a little bit about that because that was a crazy scene and I looked it up and it's like the closest I ever saw to like, what would happen if a vampire came into a home. It's like, oh, it's powers might be weakened or. But that's about it. That's the most it ever says.

Kat: But next they say quote, "some might say Oskar is a budding sociopath or psychopath, but through a-"

Ryley: Us.

Kat: "But through the sensitive filmmaking and the fully felt performance by Hedebrandt, a portrait emerges of a troubled young boy simply struggling to survive in an oppressive world." End quote.

Ryley: And that's what I was saying earlier, is he's a 12 year old boy be- being bullied. He's naive. He doesn't know what murder really is. He's just angry.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And so when he actually does get to see someone get killed, reality hits him. You know? I agree.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: with that statement.

Kat: His reaction is telling of-

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: whether or not he is a little sociopath.

Ryley: E- exactly. And at the end of the day, you could [00:34:00] argue that he isn't.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Kind of. I don't know. I think just basing on his reactions to different scenes.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: and how he feels about it. Uh, you could, you could argue that, you know, he's, he was just a child. He's just a child. He's naive. He's angry.

Kat: Yeah. They say that the subplots feel like distractions since the central story is so powerful that you can't wait for this story to return to them. Eli and Oskar's parts of the movie, like.

Ryley: Oh, okay. Yeah, I understand that.

Kat: I mean, they're the main characters, so that's, that's a good thing that you just want it to, you want it to come back. I liked the, the side, the subplots.

Ryley: That was, it was interesting.

Kat: They also say that Alfredson uses a naturalistic approach in developing their relationship and parallel dramas with long takes and static shots combined with beautiful cinematography and a perfect score. The elements establish a captivating mood and his calm staging of the violent bits lets them speak for themselves rather than exaggerating them with visual gimmicks.

Ryley: Because like this movie is very calm until it isn't.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And when it isn't, it's very jarring, but I think in a good way. Not in a bad [00:35:00] way.

Kat: Yeah. And it doesn't go over the top.

Ryley: Very much so.

Kat: The last quote from Gingold, quote, "like Pans Labyrinth, let the Right one in, is the best kind of genre blender, a movie that honors and delivers on the expectations of fright filmmaking, while expanding its boundaries to explore a full spectrum of emotions. And although he works here on a less fantastical canvas than Del Toro in his own masterpiece, Alfredson nonetheless delivers sites we've never seen before, the condition of one recovered body is a brilliant touch, and maintains a mature perspective while staying true to the youth of his central characters. Even though undead Eli points out that she's 12, more or less and Oskar has been made to grow up too fast, it's a key to let the right one in's success that it never forgets they're still kids." End quote.

Ryley: I don't know about that last part because I, I think this is probably where we, cause I don't see Eli. as a- I mean, sure, she's a child, looks like a child.

Kat: Only in looks.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: I don't think they particularly act like a child.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: I do agree that Oskar, I don't think that I necessarily [00:36:00] saw him as mature, but I definitely could see how in his mind he thinks he's a lot more adult and he's had to grow up a kind of fast over the course of this movie with like grasping what's going on.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I do like that the movie reminds us that at least with Oskar, he's still a little kid.

Ryley: Yeah, exactly. And that's why you can kind of forgive him. Like yeah, he, he has little murderous tones in the beginning, but like, again, he's a child. I don't think he really understands the actual consequences or what that would actually look like. And so when he does it's, it hits him. The reality hits him.

Kat: Yeah. But I, I agree with you. I don't think Eli particularly acts childlike.

Ryley: I don't think it's good to defend Eli like that.

Kat: No.

Ryley: Or to categorize Eli as this child, cuz they're not. They're over a hundred years old.

Kat: Yeah. But the next review I have is from Film Comment by Laura Kern from 2008, starting with quote, "vampire lore, which has held its ground within pop culture since the creatures of the night's fangs were first bared [00:37:00] even pre Bram Stoker, and has been enjoying a distinct upswing of late, rarely comes across as inspired and alive as it does in Tomas Alfredson exquisitely crafted let the right one in." End quote. Which yeah, this this was written in 2008, so you're comparing it to twilight is what this person's doing and like Bram Stoker's dracula.

Ryley: But they're saying it's good, right?

Kat: Yeah. They're saying like compare, like you'd think like, okay-

Ryley: Compared to twilight that just came out.

Kat: Yeah. like this movie is very like artsy inspired and deep.

Ryley: Which is, I think it's true. I think that's a fair statement.

Kat: Yeah. They also say that the movie is predominantly moody sometimes, and sometimes a gruesome horror tale. It factors in standard vampire mythology such as scorching lights, sleeping in coffin, substituted for a bathtub in this movie, inhuman odor and the need for an invitation before entering a home. Then they say that even without these elements, it could still be a horror based on the violence routinely inflicted upon Oskar by his classmates.

Ryley: Or the stuff Eli does.

Kat: If this wasn't about vampires and it was just, it could still be horrific [00:38:00] if it was just about how awful his classmates are to him.

Ryley: Yeah, that's fair. There's one little part where it says inhuman odor, so I was looking, I think it's just interesting.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I was looking at the questions and one of the questions was like, why does Eli smell funny. And it said, well when Oskar goes, you smell funny it's before Eli feeds.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: So they said it's like, oh, it's probably because Eli smells like a rotting corpse their body's dying.

Kat: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And after they eat is when they smell better. So they smell like a person.

Kat: Cuz they come up and they're like, don't I smell better?

Ryley: Exactly.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And then another theory is like, well after Eli eats, they're all messy, right?

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: So they have to bathe. So cuz they, what their point. Eli doesn't socialize with people. So why would Eli bathe or have regular hygiene?

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: So when they do eat, they have to bathe. And then after that they smell better, they have better hygiene. So.

Kat: That's, yeah. Meanwhile, Bella's the stinky one when Edwards hungry, like.

Ryley: Exactly. "guess I'm just gonna bear it."[00:39:00]

Kat: And he's just a dick. And she's stinky.

Ryley: He's, he's so awful.

Kat: He just hasn't eaten.

Ryley: He's so rude.

Kat: But they say, quote, "sadly, let the right one in will probably be best known to American audiences as another casualty of Hollywood's rampant impulse to remake." And this was before the remake.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: "IE, in most cases, vandalize every halfway decent horror import in sight. Why they'd want the film is no wonder, it's haunting, romantic, and much deeper in its exploration of gender and child psychology than it initially appears. The mystery is why it's not obvious to all that there's simply no room for improvement with this one." End quote.

Ryley: Well, they're very right on that and, wasn't it the remake made like two years later?

Kat: Yeah, it was made in 2011.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: It was just an era of America being like, that's cool. I want one .

Ryley: Exactly. Yeah. And they weren't wrong.

Kat: The next one is the other negative review I found.

Ryley: Okay.

Kat: From Entertainment Weekly by Owen Glieberman in 2008, who gave the movie a C and says, quote, "according to the new [00:40:00] School of cinematic dread, it kicked in over the last decade with J Horror films, a fright flick is eerier if it doesn't make sense. If random arty blood thrills are your cup of fear, perhaps you'll enjoy let the right one in, a Swedish head scratcher that has a few creepy images, but very little holding them together, a serial killer who bleeds his victims in public places, why? Who knows, has a 12 year old daughter who's a vampire. Who befriends the blonde boy next door. Who sulks through the movie in a blank faced torpor that will have you screaming for something coherent to happen." End quote. This is another, like the first negative one where they just go for funny.

Ryley: Did you not think, did you not think during this movie? Did you not go? Hmm, maybe, maybe there's more to this than-

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: What I'm just seeing, you know. Like.

Kat: That is something that I meant to ask you because of how so many people seemed confused, like before you went and looked stuff up. Would you have come out of this movie with that notion? Cuz it seems like you didn't think that Hakan was [00:41:00] Eli's father.

Ryley: No. Cuz here, here's the thing. I looked at the questions after I watched the movie.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Cuz I was generally curious about this movie, but if I had not. I think the most thing I would've been irritated was just how ambiguous this movie is. Just because like there's, I have so many questions about this movie, but there's interpretation to this movie, and I liked this movie even before looking up those interpretations.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: if you're someone who watches movies and you need every little piece of information given to you and shown to you, this is probably not a movie for you.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: This movie probably is probably getting too confuse or not even confuse, but I mean, you're gonna take everything pretty literally in the movie, so

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I don't know.

Kat: And I mean, I, I don't know why Hakan thought, yeah, let's, let's drain this man in a, a tree on a trail.

Ryley: Yeah. It's a, that's a fair critique.

Kat: Yeah. It seems like Hakans' not exactly the smartest.

Ryley: No.

Kat: This is a movie that you have to kind of look things up.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Look into the book a little.

Ryley: Think outside the box. A little like, Hey, maybe, maybe there's more to this than [00:42:00] what I'm just seeing, you know?

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Yeah. Well, yeah to give him the benefit of the doubt too is like this movie is pretty am ambiguous. You know, knowing there's a novel out there though.

Kat: With all the answers.

Ryley: Yeah. Literally all the answers. And honestly, this movie is, I forgot who said it, but they wanted-

Kat: It's the director.

Ryley: Yeah. He want more ambiguous stuff about it, which I think is fine. I can see how that's irritating. But it's a, it's to allow the viewer to connect their own dots.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And if you can't do that, this is probably one of the. Not one of those movies for you.

Kat: I agree. And I understand why someone might not like a movie that is like so up for interpretation.

Ryley: Yeah. Cuz it can be frustrating.

Kat: Mm-hmm. But the last review I have was just, it's very short. It was on a, a list of the 50 best lgbtq plus horror films of all time from Them. And this particular part was written by Kyle Turner in October of 2022. They described the movie this way, saying quote, "with uncompromising beauty and tenderness, director Tomas Alfredson lets his characters find resilience and strength in one another as they [00:43:00] navigate a cruel and unwelcoming world." End quote.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: Like I was saying, gets considered like an LGBTQ plus movie.

Ryley: Yeah, I understand. And I guess in that tone, yeah, I can see that.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And if we're, if we're analyzing it in that perspective, then yeah, absolutely.

Kat: Yeah. That's the last one I have. So are you ready to move on to the audience reviews?

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I did wanna note before we go into the audience reviews, it seems like most people took the, I'm not a girl commentary about Eli as being about Eli's humanity.

Ryley: That's what I thought it was too, at first, to be honest.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But then it literally cuts to-

Kat: Yeah, by the way, that is done with a mannequin that is not on an actual human body.

Ryley: I didn't think it was.

Kat: Yeah. Some people in the audience reviews thought so.

Ryley: Yeah. I and that's fair.

Kat: Yeah. But most people didn't notice those scars as being mutilation scars.

Ryley: Yeah. Again, I can understand.

Kat: And that's, that's a little bit where the ambiguity of the book and taking stuff out kind of does a [00:44:00] disservice for it.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Um, but after the revelation in the book, the book starts switching from using she pronouns to he pronouns for Eli.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I don't wanna go too far into this cause I don't wanna speak on something that I don't personally understand.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: So if anyone has more insight from a trans perspective about this film, please reach out to us on our Instagram about that cuz I'd love to hear your perspective about it, but I don't wanna speak over to anybody. The other recurring thing that I saw was that some people watched the English dub of the film

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: instead of the original Swedish and that's the only reason they didn't like it.

Ryley: Oh, no. I mean, that's probably why you told me to watch the, um, Swedish version.

Kat: I mean, with foreign films it's always a, like, unless it's an anime.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Because sometimes there are good dubs, but with live action, it's like with Squid game, most people who didn't like Squid Game watched the dub version of it. But the original Korean version is so much better and it's the same case here. And if you ever watch an international movie, don't watch the English dub of it unless it's a cartoon.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: But [00:45:00] moving on into the reviews, the first review I have is a 10 outta 10 from October of 2020. Titled "Beautiful" from IMDB. "While we don't always know how to give it or receive it or with whom to share it, love, in all of its forms, is a beautiful thing."

Ryley: Feel like you can find this, this review on any movie.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I love it. It's so non-specific.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I'm not saying the wrong. You can have that perspective about this movie.

Kat: That's a correct statement.

Ryley: It is. But I didn't feel that way about this movie.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I did not end on that.

Kat: And there are some people who are on the same page as you about that. We'll, we'll get to those, but yes, you are not alone in thinking that.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: The next one is also a 10 out of 10. It's a little bit longer. "It's titled A Beautiful and Chilling Experience." From December of 2008. "I managed to catch this movie in Vancouver whilst it was on limited release the other month, and rarely has a day gone by that I've not found myself thinking back to it. As a fan of horror movies and vampire movies, I eagerly awaited this movie, especially after the glowing write-ups it received almost unilaterally. I was not disappointed. Let the [00:46:00] right one in is, by turns, beautiful, horrifying, funny, tender, brutal, sad and hopeful. The performances of all the young actors were of the highest quality, especially our two leads. The chemistry between these two preteens outstripped many a Hollywood pairing. The camera work was excellent. The only qualm I could think of was that once or twice the music was a little intrusive on the quiet beauty of the scenes. But this is a very minor complaint. After Tdk let the right one in," what is td? Is that the Dark Knight? Cuz The Dark Knight came out in 2008 as well.

Ryley: Yes, I think it is too.

Kat: Which is also a great movie.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: "After TDK, Let the Right One in was the best movie I saw this year, and I cannot wait until the DVD released so I can watch it again. This was a serious contender for the best vampire movie I've ever seen, but to merely label it as a vampire movie is to overlook a beautiful and original piece of cinema that will stay with you for a long time."

Ryley: I agree. It is a beautiful movie, uh, that I think was their only complaint, that the music was a little distracting.

Kat: Once or twice it was intrusive on quiet beauty of a scene.

Ryley: Hmm. I wouldn't even, I didn't even notice that.

Kat: [00:47:00] Same.

Ryley: I don't necessarily agree with that. I know they weren't making that a huge complaint, but.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I didn't even notice that. But other than that, they seem like they, I mean, it is a, a home run, like a beautiful movie and it is visually a beautiful movie.

Kat: Do you think the child acting is good in this movie?

Ryley: I don't think it's bad. I actually think, I think of, of a lot of child acting movies this is one of the better ones, honestly.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I actually do think the kids did really well in this movie.

Kat: It took them, I believe, about a year to do the casting for the leads. So they did their best to find the best kids for it. I guess.

Ryley: And I think they did. I think everyone did great. I, I do not think that acting in this movie, I don't think anyone does bad in, in this movie at all.

Kat: Yeah, but the first negative review I have is from IMDB, a one outta 10 titled "The fact that this movie was rated 8.1 is an embarrassment to movie lovers," from December of 2010. "I really have no idea why I was compelled to sit down and watch this movie. I have never been so disappointed in a movie in all my life. The fact that this movie was rated 8.1 is an embarrassment to movie lovers, and [00:48:00] please, this movie cannot be compared to Twilight. I am sure all those who watch both will agree. Twilight captured everything. The only thing that let the right one did not fail to capture was the storyline. Overrated is an underrated word for Let the Right one in." Whereas, whereas I was draw , whereas, hold on. "Whereas I was drawn to everything in Twilight. The only scene I like was when the boy hit back the bullies and the only shocking scene was the girl's genitals question mark, period."

Ryley: I was not expecting this to go where it did.

Kat: Uh, this to be a twilight lover.

Ryley: I did not expect that? I was like, oh, this is pretentious, whatever. And then they mentioned Twilight I was like, oh God, I-

Kat: Look at the Tumblr typing on everything.

Ryley: It is. I love that. Okay. I honestly, I'm okay with them hating this movie just because they loved Twilight. I'm honestly actually pretty fine with that.

Kat: This is the first person to say that Twilight did vampires better.

Ryley: Compared to let the right ones in. Oh my God. [00:49:00] That's hilarious. That's a, this is honestly a really funny one. You know what? I have no critiques about this.

Kat: No, they're correct.

Ryley: And they're right about the ending. Like, you know, there's a shocking scene and yeah, I understand how that would be. Um, pretty disturbing. Yeah. Pretty shocking and disturbing to see.

Kat: Especially if you don't know that it's mutilation scars and like.

Ryley: Yes.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Yes, but I love that they're a Twilight fan. That's hilarious. You know what, this is a 10 star review. I love it.

Kat: Yeah, this is, this is up there. I love this one.

Ryley: This is a good one.

Kat: The next one is a one out of 10 from Imdb, titled 'Horrible' from February of 2012. "This film pretends to be a joyful, tense and cute little story about a bullied, apparently, because the only hints you get consist of the boy learning morse code and actually being the first one to realize there is a vampire on the loose, genius boy and a vampire girl who has been 12 for a long time. In many senses, this is twilight all over again, but Swedish and without the sparkling. The story is predictable, the [00:50:00] boy is just annoying throughout the film, the gore and violence are non-existent, and there is absolutely nothing that actually keeps you on the edge of your sit." Unlike the, "unlike the Millennium Trilogy, I wasn't just bored out of my mind, but also amazed because of the comments I had heard about the movie. Beautiful. Marvelous. Awesome. I'd just say useless."

Ryley: So this is what I thought that first review was going to be, but.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: And first off, they need to write their sentences better cuz they lost me for a second.

Kat: Yeah, yeah. It was hard to read.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: What is Millennium Trilogy?

Ryley: I don't, I don't even know.

Kat: Oh, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy.

Ryley: Oh, okay.

Kat: Okay. That one that is, that is a suspenseful series, so.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I, they're not wrong, but.

Ryley: Really, honestly, at the end of the day, this just sounds like this movie wasn't for you.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: You did, you, you were expecting things that just aren't in this movie, and that's okay. They don't have to be, but this just isn't your movie.

Kat: It sounds like they were expecting it to be more of a violent thriller.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: This next one is from 2017, 5 and a [00:51:00] half- four and a half, five and a half, four and a half stars on the letterboxd. "He suredid let the right one in." I would say no.

Ryley: I would say no. I think at the young day, again, you can't, you can't trust vampires. They're just gonna use you.

Kat: They're all groomers.

Ryley: They're all groomers. They're just gonna use you for their survival. What can you do for me? And they're just gonna trick you.

Kat: Yep. This one is a two star review from August of 2022 on Letterboxd. "Watched this film in film studies class, and I generally dislike this movie a lot. I can kind of see what people like so much, but at the same time, the thing giving this film two stars is the cinematography and world around them look good. The characters and romance to me is so strange and the characters are very uninteresting. The horror is more just disturbing scenes and don't scare and just make me feel very uncomfortable."

Ryley: That's horror. That's the definition of horror, but okay.

Kat: "I generally dislike this film a lot, even when people love it." Well, good on you for sticking to your guns on it.

Ryley: [00:52:00] I guess so. First off, it is a horror movie and the fact that you said they made me feel uncomfortable defines it as a horror movie.

Kat: Yeah fear-.

Ryley: So, congratulations, you figured out the definition.

Kat: Fear and or disgust.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Disgust is also-

Ryley: So there you go.

Kat: Related to being uncomfortable, so.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Okay. So there's some, so they, they said the characters and romance to me is so strange and I actually do agree with that. It is strange and I, and I, you know, I think uncomfortable.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: But I don't think the characters aren't- I think the characters are very interesting.

Kat: Yeah. It seems like they liked the technical aspects of it though.

Ryley: Yeah. And that's fair. I mean this, this is a very pretty film to say it isn't is a lie, I think.

Kat: Mm-hmm. Two stars 2021. Letterboxd. "Is this, that Twilight that all the kids are talking about."

Ryley: I just love it. I love- Cause I'm so glad you told me like they came around the same year. Cause I've been like, gosh, they're referencing Twilight a lot. These movies are not that similar. But I guess because they came around the same year. I totally understand. , they're both about vampires movies, so yeah.

Kat: Vampires that groom children pretty [00:53:00] similar. They got a lot in common.

Ryley: Got a lot in common.

Kat: Like that other group you said they just don't sparkle.

Ryley: They just don't Sparkle.

Kat: Okay. Half star from 2020 on Letterboxd. "Gotta give some credit to the dour Swedish temperament that created this, I haven't been this bored by a movie in a while. Just a total chore to get through, the kind of aimless pseudo-genre exercise that mistakes the stasis of storytelling for thematic depth. A waste of time."

Ryley: Big words.

Kat: Wow.

Ryley: I can see how you think this movies slow. It's on the slower side. I'm not gonna say it isn't.

Kat: No. Yeah, it's.

Ryley: But I think there's enough going on where. I'm invested.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I wanna know what's gonna go on next.

Kat: It is very slow though.

Ryley: It is slow. I understand that. And I don't blame anyone for thinking it is.

Kat: Aimless, pseudo genre exercise that makes this, so I thi, so they're saying that this movie kind of doesn't know what genre it is and it's kind of like, Faking its own genre is what it

Ryley: I don't agree with that.

Kat: Seems like. I don't fully understand what mistakes the stasis of storytelling for [00:54:00] thematic depth means.

Ryley: That's what i, I think they're just kind of trying to use big words

Kat: What does, what does-

Ryley: To not explain what they want.

Kat: What does stasis mean in regards to storytelling? Cause I know like, it means like the, the state of something cuz like homeostasis

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: is like your normal state that you're in.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But that sentence doesn't make sense in that.

Ryley: It doesn't, and I don't know what they mean by it. Like, what do you mean by it? What's the stasis of storytelling?

Kat: I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I have never used a word I didn't know, but this def like, I've definitely said something like that. And like on a rarity, someone will be like, what?

Ryley: Huh? What do you mean?

Kat: That's, I don't think, you know what that word like that's, this is one of those situations because.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: This, the state of the storytelling is being mistaken for the, the, like a thematic depth. They mistake the, the way the story's being told for a deeper message.

Ryley: What I think they're trying to say, like's just said it's so much simpler, is like, this movie isn't as deep as they want us to think it is. This is basically what-

Kat: Yeah it's fake deep.

Ryley: I think they're trying to, [00:55:00] it's fake deep. That's basically what they wanted to say. This is dumb.

Kat: It is. Like we had to break that sentence down.

Ryley: We gonna break it down to know what they were freaking talking about.

Kat: I'm not trying to analyze. Okay.

Ryley: No, I'm trying to know what you're trying to say.

Kat: Yeah. Okay. But the next one, three stars 2022 letterboxd. "Can I come in?" Question mark quoted at the beginning, "let the right one in refers to the vampire folklore concept that a vampire should be invited first to enter. Initially refusing Eli's request, Oskar eventually lets her in, something that could be a commentary on immigration and the hospitality that comes with it. A blood sucker of a vampire flick and its depiction of the traumas of bullying, struggles of one's coming of age and passion of young love, let the right one in sets for a biting fantasy tale by the time it gets dark. But sadly, it wasn't the right one for me."

Ryley: Well, it didn't seem like they were, they disliked it.

Kat: They, yeah. It seems like they, they understood what could be- what's good about it.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But they just didn't enjoy it.

Ryley: That's fair. It's totally fair.

Kat: It's such a mature review.

Ryley: Yeah. [00:56:00] It's su- like, thank you . And I love the analyzation of it too.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: Because I didn't think that, but yeah. Now I totally see it. Totally understand.

Kat: Yeah, I see where they're coming from with that.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: And I, I think you could pretty easily expand on it being a commentary on immigration and hospitality.

Ryley: Yeah, absolutely.

Kat: Three and a half stars from 2021 on letterboxd. "Why the actual fuck do so many reviewers on this site think this is a goddamn love story? This isn't love, it's Stockholm syndrome."

Ryley: Ooh. Okay. All right.

Kat: "The movie sets up a direct parallel between the old lover and the new lover."

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: "There's a scene earlier in the movie where he's clearly depicted as if he's in an abusive relationship, begging her forgiveness when he's clearly being used by her. When this old lover has nothing left to offer her anymore, she literally sucks his blood dry and leaves him to die immediately before moving on to her next younger lover. These two aren't in love, this kid is a victim. This girl preys upon vulnerable, weak, bullied boys who will in turn spend their entire [00:57:00] lives simping for her until they're no longer of any use to her. And the movie literally takes place in Stockholm, they couldn't have made it more fucking clear. How fucking badly do you have to read a movie to think this is a goddamn fucking love story." Thank.

Ryley: This is, I literally.

Kat: It's it exactly.

Ryley: I literally said this like-

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: after seeing the movie, like, I know, like, this is what I thought.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: This is what, this is literally what I thought. So no notes. I've already, I've already this is exactly what I thought. This is how I interpreted the movie, so, absolutely. Yes.

Kat: Because the movie version is so open for interpretation, especially.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: the relationships. I think this is a very, like you made this point too, so I'm saying this to you as well.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I think that's a very good interpretation to come out of this movie with.

Ryley: Yeah. Thank you.

Kat: Mm-hmm. You're welcome.

Ryley: Did you think that too, or did you, or were you more?

Kat: I read it as like, yeah, this dude's being used.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I, I wouldn't say that I would've been able to, right off the bat say it in this exact way, if that makes sense.[00:58:00]

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: After you said it, I'm like, okay, yeah, I got the vibes.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But I couldn't articulate it that way.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: This is a two-star review from Amazon.

Ryley: Oh Jesus.

Kat: From 2017, and it's titled, "Interesting Premise, poor Execution." "The premise of the movie was interesting, set in Sweden, middle of winter, very utilitarian buildings, how a girl, the vampire survives. The execution felt very wooden to me, though there was very little emotion in the dialogue, watched it with English sub. Even the moments that Oskar, the main character in this film, was supposed to be happiest, felt very forced. The pacing is extremely slow, which is common in foreign films, but you can predict the movie in almost its entirety within the first one fourth of it. The characters felt bland. You don't get any kind of attachment to any of them, with a bit of exception to Eli. There's really no explanation as to why Eli does things and you need to know a bit about vampire's, mythology to understand them. Overall, an interesting premise, but poor execution for this movie. Slow pacing, predictable story and bland characters pull it down."

Ryley: I just didn't see it that way.

Kat: [00:59:00] Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I just, honestly, I do not agree just on, I mean, you could say that all happened. That's fine. That's your opinion. Okay.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I just don't agree. I just, I just blatantly do not think that's the case with this movie, but, okay.

Kat: Yeah. Earlier I even said like, I enjoy the calmness.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: Of the movie and I don't see that as characters with very little emotion- emotion. I see this as like characters with realistic amounts of emotion.

Ryley: Yes. Yes.

Kat: They don't have to be like, have a vein popping out of their head to to be convincing.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: It's like those, I've sent you these, like I'll see compilations on TikTok of like the best acting scenes, and it's just people yelling.

Ryley: Angry is so easy to play.

Kat: Subtle anger is so much more impressive to me than just fucking yelling.

Ryley: Remember, uh, what is it called? The- marriage story. Think about it. What's, what's another scene from that film you've ever seen anywhere else besides that yelling scene and also why that movie was so hyped because of the [01:00:00] yelling scene?

Kat: Yeah, those compilations always remind me of Dennis from Always Sunny.

Ryley: Give him an Oskar.

Kat: His little, I am a golden god.

Ryley: This car is a finisher car. Give him, where's his Oscar?

Kat: Yeah. Where's Glenn Howerton's Oscar.

Ryley: He is a great actor though. I do like him.

Kat: He's weirdly good at playing Dennis.

Ryley: He's been playing it for decade a- over a decade now. I mean, he's got the character nailed down.

Kat: Yeah. Yeah. But back to this, they didn't like the littleness of emotion, but.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But to both of us it seems it was just like a realistic display of emotion.

Ryley: Mm-hmm. I just don't agree with this person. Just blatantly like, okay, you can have that opinion. That's f- okay.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I just don't agree. I literally like, I don't know how to say it other than like, I just don't think that at all.

Kat: Yeah. Like completely opposite. I can't imagine picking up this feeling from this movie.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I'm proud of you though, for watching the, the original audio.

Ryley: Yeah. At least they did that.

Kat: Mm-hmm.

Ryley: I love how neutral they came into this. [01:01:00] And then how hard they went crazy. But

Kat: if you like movies, you're gonna wanna kill yourself

Ryley: and drink your own blood. Like, what the fuck? Can we calm down? You started at a at a zero and you went to a hundred real quick.

Kat: Pedantic, meandering. What are these words? I don't know exactly what pedantic means, but from the context I've picked up in my life, with the word pedantic is like, you just, you're just like, oh, ugh. Really? Like after something pedantic happens.

Ryley: It lingers.

Kat: Wait, let me look up what it actually means.

Ryley: Yeah. I just can't get past how crazy this person went. Like they started off. So like this is a very di different take on the Vampire genre and if you are looking for that, this is probably the movie for you. If not, you're gonna, and then just goes, off.

Kat: I think they, I think they used pedantic, wrong.

Ryley: What does it mean?

Kat: A person who is excessively concerned with minor details or rules or with displaying academic learning. So it was too, the acting is pedantic. So to them they think that they put too much [01:02:00] detail. Like they, they thought too hard about the acting or like they were too like concerned with the minor details of the acting. That's what, isn't that what is considered good acting is like those minor details of acting?

Ryley: Yeah. I don't know if they thought that one through.

Kat: That's a compliment. Bitch.

Ryley: I think it might be.

Kat: I need to start doing that more, looking up these words to make sure these people are using it right.

Ryley: Because a lot of people want to sound smart when they're writing these and it's really funny when you figure out.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: I don't know if that you used that word correctly.

Kat: And like I said earlier, I've definitely done that. Three and a half Stars, 2019. "Had no idea what to expect with this one, but I'm happy to report that I really liked it. It was a touching story with lots of beautiful moments despite its horror," in quotes, "set up. I definitely think I would've liked it more was I not forced to pause it multiple times and come back to hours later. But I can see the rating being raised on a rewatch. I'm back from being a little MIA over the last few days, needed a break, but I'm ready to commence spooky season movie watching, and this was definitely a nice start to it." So they had [01:03:00] to, they had to pause it and come back to it multiple times.

Ryley: I could see how you could lose- I feel like you could lose focus really easily with this movie cuz this movie cuz it's slower pace. You're gonna be like, what are we doing again? What's, what's the scene?

Kat: What happened?

Ryley: You know?

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: What happened? It's okay. Yeah. This is this movie. You definitely need to sit down and kind of, I mean, you know, pay attention to and.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: Not in that you're get lost, but it's, it's so slow. You want to, you, you want it to flow. It's gonna be really hard to come back after being interrupted so many times. You're gonna, you're gonna be left out of it, you know?

Kat: Exactly. Yeah. You have to, it's like.

Ryley: You gotta emerge.

Kat: Yeah. Ex- Exactly. That's the, that's the best word for it.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: You have to stay emerged in the-

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: But the last review I have is four and a half stars from 2020 on Letterboxd. "Normally having kids as the main character in a horror movie is the kiss of death. That is probably why avoided this movie so long. This movie was awesome. It was a slow burn at times, but it fit. There are some cool, brutal, good scenes good enough for any horror fan. The story is what grabs you and doesn't let go. The ending was awesome though I had seen the ending in a podcast and was [01:04:00] the reason why I watched the movie though I didn't know when I saw the clip it was the ending. You'll have to read subtitles, but check it out. It is awesome."

Ryley: Yeah, that's a good one. And I agree, having main characters, kids as main characters in movies that kiss a death, like, like I said, like I see there have been horror films that have been absolutely ruined just because the children actors are just ridiculous in interacting.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: And yeah, I totally agree with that. But in this, they're perfect.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: They're really, they're actually really talented.

Kat: You could, I mean, like I said, they took a whole year just to cast.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: The leads and I think it paid off for them.

Ryley: I think so too.

Kat: They went with the best kids they could find.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: So how about you? What do you rate this movie?

Ryley: Hmm. This is so boring because I feel like I've been doing this for all the movies we've done.

Kat: Is it another seven?

Ryley: Seven outta 10. It's good. This isn't my favorite movie of all time, or even close to being one of my favorites. But it's good. It's a good movie. It's good for what it is. And then, and, and go ahead and see it, you might, it might be your favorite.

Kat: Yeah.

Ryley: It's not mine, but it's gr It's great. It's good.

Kat: I think I'm gonna give it like an eight.

Ryley: Yeah.

Kat: I agree [01:05:00] that it's not, It's definitely not one of my favorite movies, but I understand why it's like harolded as one of the best horror movies because it has a lot of really good things going for it.

Ryley: Mm-hmm.

Kat: I think you could say, even the negative reviews could acknowledge that there were some really amazing things in this movie. Specifically the camera work and the cinematography and the score. Not as many with the plot itself, but I think that it checks all the boxes and it does it really well.

Ryley: I agree.

Kat: Eight outta 10.

Ryley: Eight outta 10. Yeah.

Kat: It's no Coraline.

Ryley: It's no Coraline. The height. The height of cinema.

Kat: The height of horror. But yeah. So do you have anything else you wanna add before we wrap it up?

Ryley: Nope.

Kat: Okay. So if you want to suggest any movies to us or you want to give us any feedback or comments or anything, give us your perspective on this movie, anything you can DM us on Instagram at Easy Bake Takes. We also have a TikTok at Easy Bake Takes. We have a website with our transcripts and all of our episodes on it. That is Easy bake takes [01:06:00] podcast.com. We also have a letterboxd account where we write overviews of all of our episodes. You could find us at Easy Bake Takes on there as well. And don't forget to rate, review, and follow us wherever you get your podcast, if you enjoyed us. And thank you so much for listening. My name is Kat.

Ryley: And I'm Ryley

Kat: Oh wait, I have another line. This has been Easy Bake Takes. Easy watching out there.

Ryley: Bye .

Kat: Bye.