Let Me In: Book vs. Movie
Matt Reeves's 2010 film Let Me In draws on John Ajvide Lindqvist's book Let the Right One In and its Swedish film adaptation. Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz play a lonely boy and the vampire who moves into his apartment complex.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Year
- 2004
- Pages
- 480Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 16 hr 48 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Steven Pacey
Bullied at school and lonely at home, twelve-year-old Oskar finds an unexpected companion in Eli, the peculiar new neighbor who appears only after dark. Their growing closeness offers him refuge just as brutal deaths spread fear through the Stockholm suburb where they live. Oskar gradually confronts what Eli needs to survive, while the adults around them pursue dangers they do not fully understand.
- Director
- Matt Reeves
- Writer
- Matt Reeves
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 1 hr 56 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins
- Genre
- coming-of-age, Drama, Fantasy, horror, LGBTQ-related, Mystery, Romance, vampire
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Twelve-year-old Owen watches his neighbors through a telescope and tries to stay out of his tormentors' way at school. A new arrival, Abby, offers the companionship missing from his life, though she appears only at night. As a police investigation closes in on the man caring for her, Owen must confront the violence behind their friendship.
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