Vampires Then and Now

Let the Right One In

            This is one vampire movie that I can sincerely say I enjoyed. It is perhaps because I am a sadist when it comes to entertainment. I love gore and hardships in storytelling and this movie brought both in full force. It is unlike any of the vampire movies nowadays. Now vampires are seeking love and companionship with refusal to succumb to their killer instincts. They are boring.

            Vampires are supposed to be these monsters designed to kill and feed off of human blood and burn in the sunlight, all of which was included in this movie. It stayed true to what vampires were initially created to be. However, with movies like Twilight and shows like the Vampire Dairies (though I can say that the Vampire Dairies really isn't that bad of a show) completely disregarded the classical nature of what a vampire was created to be. In Twilight the vampires feed from animal blood and sparkle in the sunlight. It is okay to be different and innovative, but sparkling? Really? It’s ridiculous.  The Vampire Dairies in comparison (now in the series) drink human blood, but before they also drank animal blood and because of a ring on their finger they are impervious to sunlight. That isn’t completely absurd, because without the ring they could die, but death by sparkle is quite impossible I think.

            I liked this movie because it stayed true to the design and initial intent of what a vampire is and was created to be, a monster. Though there was romance, sort of…more like puppy love, or bat love. It was whatever a vampire/human love interest is called. It wasn't a subject that was exemplified throughout the story so I was able to look passed it for the most part though. It offered human feeding, death by sunlight, and gore, where Eli viciously rips people to pieces and breaks necks. It was definitely an enjoyable experience in my life to relive the better times of vampire movies.