The Blood-Soaked Kiss of a Good Swedish Lady Vamp
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Nina, I’m glad you brought up Grady Hendrix’s complaint that vampires aren’t doing enough blood sucking these days, because I have a bone to pick, too. Hendrix overlooks what I think is the best addition to the vampire cannon since Buffy (and this coming from a girl who can’t get enough of True Blood): last year’s Swedish Let The Right One In. That film’s mousy, smelly, yet powerfully alluring lady vamp has a blood-smeared face in nearly every scene. It’s a beautiful thing, watching her ravage the neck of a grown man, then skulk around her apartment without deigning to wipe her mouth. And I love when, in a move suitably grandma-esque for a 200-year-old, she lays a smacker on Oskar with those blood-soaked lips. He, more smitten, I dare say, than I ever was with my over-lipsticked Grammy, doesn’t even need to wipe off the stain.
Photograph of Lina Leandersson as Eli in Let the Right One In courtesy of EFTI.
Samantha Henig is the associate editor of Double X, and can be reached at samantha.henig@doublex.com.
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By: Martin | Wed, 08/26/2009 - 03:53
For additional information the show is another teenage/young person vampire/fantasy series, pretty much a move by HBO to cash in on the success of Twilight. Paquin also was a heavy feature of the X Men series, and as a child appeared in a diverse spread of films, such as The Piano, Fly Away Home, and Amistad. (Here's a show for you: Teen Vampire goes to work, which he should because teenagers, undead or not, are lazy.) Stop worrying about Anna Paquin pictures – worry about whether you'll need payday loans this month.
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By: Kozmic Blues | Thu, 07/30/2009 - 14:12
Until you meet Eli's caretaker and helper in the book. Decidedly different than the movie.
Not a lady!
By: Samantha Henig | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 07:26
Just got an e-mail from a reader who points out that, although Eli is played by a girl in the movie, her character in the book on which the film was based was "born a boy. This is unambiguous in the book, and is gestured to in the movie by the somewhat awkwardly done mutilated-genitals shot." I hadn't fully put that together from the movie, clearly, but it's worth pointing out that my calling her a "lady vamp" is thus slightly off. Can't wait to read the book and see what else I missed...