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Let Me In is a 2010 horror film by Matt Reeves (of Cloverfield, Planet of the Apes, and The Batman fame), starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, and Elias Koteas. It is an English-language remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In, based on the book of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. It is produced by Hammer Horror, making this their first movie in decades.In 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, young Owen is tormented by bullies and frustrated with his parents, who are too wrapped up in their divorce to offer him much sympathy. Everything changes for him when Abby moves into the apartment next door. However, Abby is not what she seems, and as Owen strikes up a friendship with her, he is soon drawn into her dangerous life.For tropes on the original book, see Let the Right One In. For tropes on the Swedish film, see here. | |
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Dirty Coward: Kenny, to be expected of a schoolyard bully. For one thing, he only ever attacks Owen when he is accompanied by two other boys despite the fact he's considerably taller and more muscular than his short, skinny victim. When Owen fights back for the first time, he's quickly reduced to a crying wreck and Kenny doesn't go near him again until he has the support of his older, bigger brother and even then, they wait until he's alone and half-naked in the pool before they attack him. He can also be heard begging Abby to spare him when she comes to rescue Owen. | |
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Dragon-in-Chief: Kenny's brother, Jimmy. Kenny is the main villain of the film, with Jimmy only appearing in two scenes and he attacks Owen at his brother's behest, but it's shown he's much more dangerous and cruel than Kenny and the other bullies, to the point they're afraid of him. | |
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Darker and Edgier: To a degree. While it tones down the moral ambiguity of the film in many ways, it's a darker story. For one, the violence is much more explicit. Secondly, Owen's suffering is much more pronounced in this version. To contrast, in the pool scene in the Swedish version, the room's brightly lit and Oskar is playing to pop music before the bullies attempt to drown him and when they're killed, the violence is mainly obscured. In this version, Owen's chased through a darkened locker room, then dragged screeching before they attempt to drown him. The bullies' massacre is much more graphic and bloody, with Owen's back left soaked in blood by the end of it. | |
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Hero Antagonist: The police officer is only doing his job in investigating what looks like a serial killer, but the film is from Owen and Abby's POV, so the audience sees him as a threat to their relationship. | |
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The Runaway: By the end of the film, Owen decides to run away with Abby. Considering how horrible his life was in Los Alamos and Owen mentioned how deeply he hated living there and wanted to leave, you can't really blame him. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Abby, despite being a cute small girl, is a centuries old vampire who can tear 4 teenagers apart with ease. | |
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Hands-Off Parenting: Owen's mother is clearly completely detached from his life due her own alcoholism and despondency over her failed marriage. She is completely unaware that Owen is being physically and emotionally tortured by bullies every day at school and is developing psychological quirks at home due to his sheer loneliness. She thinks everything is just fine and dandy with him. Owen's father, meanwhile, hasn't even seen him for an undetermined amount of time and is also oblivious to his plight. It's an ironic point that Abby, a vampire, shows more genuine concern for Owen's well-being than either of his parents. It makes Owen's decision to leave with Abby at the end of the film completely understandable. | |
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The Sociopath: The darkest interpretation of Abby’s character. She murders innocent people for their blood with no remorse, groomed Thomas to kill for her since he was a child, and while she seems to have some affection for Owen, she wants to have him to herself and is quite willing to manipulate him into joining her in a life of murder. | |
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Shout-Out Theme Naming: A lot of the titles on the soundtrack album are based on quotes from Romeo and Juliet. | |
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Conditioned to Accept Horror: This happens to Owen over the course of the film. As Abby is the only person to treat him with kindness, he becomes completely devoted to her until he’s willing to run away with her, despite the fact that this means he’ll be killing with her for the rest of his life. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: The bullies were in the process of drowning Owen before Abby broke in and killed them. While some gave some very weak protest to Kenny when it became clear he was actually going to kill Owen, they still gleefully went to the pool with the intention of assaulting and torturing Owen. Needless to say, they deserved everything Abby did to them. | |
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The Quiet One | |
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The Quiet One: Owen is a very quiet boy. He usually speaks as little as possible, such as when he's summoned to the principal's office for hitting Kenny and, when she's scolding him, he doesn't say a single word in his own defense, despite the fact he's being very unfairly punished for defending himself. Or at the end of the film, when a train conductor speaks to him, he wordlessly presents his ticket to him and only gives a very gentle nod when asked whether Abby's trunk belonged to him. He is more talkative around Abby, so it could be he isn't naturally very silent, it's simply that Abby's the only person he's comfortable around. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: It's mostly offscreen but this is what Abby does to the bullies, even tearing off one's head. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier: The Swedish film relied a lot on long shots to not focus as much on the gory aspects. This film was more open to those aspects. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Abby's intentions with Owen are a lot more ambiguous in this version. While Håkan was recruited by Eli when he was an adult, Thomas has been Abby's caretaker since he was a child. This implies that she is just seeing Owen as a replacement, and he is doomed to become a murderer who will eventually be replaced as well. According to Chloe Grace Moretz, Abby does love Owen in her own way, but it’s not necessarily a healthy love, and she’s manipulating him so that she can have him to herself. Owen's parents. In the original, they were flawed but still loving parents. In this version, they plainly don't care about him. The bullies are also a lot more sadistic in this version than in the Swedish film, whose bullying seemed to be a lot more childish, consisting of pranks and teasing compared to the brutality in this version. For example, their first scene in the Swedish version consisted of flicking Oscar's nose, while in this version they whip Owen in the eyes with a wet towel before attacking him until he wets himself. Also, some of the Swedish bullies only joined in due to peer pressure and didn't derive pleasure from it, while each American bully deeply enjoys causing Owen as much pain and humiliation as possible. This is shown in the respective scenes where they whip Oskar/Owen; in the Swedish version, most of them hesitatingly hit him with a thin branch and Oskar barely seems to feel it, while in Let Me In, they hit Owen with a metal antenna so hard the pain brings him to tears, and their only objection is when Kenny hits him in the face, leaving a cut on his cheek, pointing out that his mother will want to know what happened to him. | |
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Bully Brutality: The bullies that harass Owen and end up almost drowning him. | |
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You Talkin' to Me?. In one of Owen's first scenes, and one of the most disturbing in the film, he takes part in an iteration of this trope. He stares, shirtless, into a mirror, while wearing a mask and wielding a knife, repeating the insults Kenny uses against him. | |
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Pastiche | |
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Pastiche: Reeves cited E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as a stylistic influence on the film. | |
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I Just Want to Have Friends: At the start of the film, Owen is desperately lonely and spends the majority of his time outside of school playing with puzzles on his own at the courtyard of his apartment complex. When Abby warns him that they can't be friends when they first meet, Owen looks absolutely heartbroken. Throughout the film, despite it being obvious there's something odd about Abby (i.e. walking barefoot through the snow, the loud arguments she has with Thomas) Owen doesn't care as long as he has companionship in his life. | |
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Unnervingly Heartwarming: Arguably the entirety of Owen and Abby's relationship. While they are two lonely children finding love and companionship with each other, there's still the fact their union will involve them living nomadic, violent, lives. Specific examples include: When Abby visits Owen at night and they snuggle together, after she has just eaten her "father," with his blood still crusted on her lips. Near the end of the film, Abby rips the detective who was investigating her apart in front of a very distressed Owen, then silently comes up behind Owen and hugs him while still covered in the man's blood. However, it's a chilling moment as Owen seems traumatized and is completely passive as Abby wraps her arms around him, as though symbolizing that Owen belongs to her now. Afterwards, she kisses Owen on the lips and gets the man's blood on him. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Abby seems very sweet and kind to Owen, but spends the film murdering perfectly innocent people, and it’s revealed that she groomed her present caretaker to kill for her since he was a child, and she doesn't treat him very well. It's left ambiguous whether she'll turn Owen into a vampire or is simply using him to procure blood, but either way, she's doomed him to kill with her for the rest of his life. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Abby. In their first few scenes, she's incredibly cold and standoffish to Owen. Her first words to him were that they could never be friends. However, when they bond over their shared love of puzzles, she quickly becomes a lot more friendly towards him. Soon they start dating and even playing together like normal children. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: In the remake, the bullies attack Owen until he wets himself. | |
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Violently Protective Girlfriend: Downplayed with Abby. At first, she just wants Owen to stand up to his bullies on his own, but she promises him if that doesn't work, she'll defend him. When he does so and the bullies retaliate by attempting to either drown or mutilate him, she literally rips them to shreds. | |
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Darkness Equals Death: The finale pool scene starts out bright just like it was in the Swedish film. But once the bullies come in, they turn out the lights where the entire pool area, let alone the pool, is ridiculously dark as the violence is about to pick up. When the Police Officer kicks the door of Abby's apartment down and starts investigating, the apartment is extremely dark due to all the windows being covered in cardboard to blot out any sunlight. The scene is extremely tense as Owen is trying to avoid being caught by the man. It eventually climaxes by the police officer being ripped to shreds by Abby. | |
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No Nudity Taboo: Abby doesn't seem to understand why Owen's startled when she strips naked before going into his bed to cuddle with him. | |
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Ax-Crazy: Kenny and his brother Jimmy. Kenny's obsession and love of hurting Owen overrides any common sense he might have to the point he threatened and moved to throw Owen into a frozen lake while a teacher was watching. Jimmy is even worse. During the sadistic test in the swimming pool, he was holding Owen's head under the water with the blatant intention of drowning him. When the other bullies get nervous about actually killing someone, they nervously ask Jimmy to stop, only for him to shriek at them to be silent. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: There's Kenny and his friends. Despite being in the same class as 12-year-old Owen, they look like they're years older than he is. The school might allow split-grade classes (which some schools do) or they may have been held back. Owen looks very young, and his voice is very soft, for a boy who is only a few months from becoming a teenager. He could easily pass as a 10 or 11 year old. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: When Jimmy is putting Owen through his sadistic test and it becomes rather obvious that Owen is on the verge of dying (Jimmy held him under the water for over a minute and a half before Abby intervened), Kenny and his friends get nervous and ask Jimmy to stop. However, considering how much they enjoyed hurting Owen throughout the film, it's hard to tell whether it was truly the bullies having limits on their cruelty or they were simply afraid of the consequences that awaited them if they actually killed Owen. | |
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Gender Flip: Abby here is 100% female. Her counterpart in the book and Swedish film, Eli, was a castrated boy who, for his/her reasons, presented or was assumed to be a girl. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Virtually every scene Kenny is in. For example: In his first scene, he sexually harasses a girl at the swimming pool. He whips Owen in the eyes with a wet towel before attacking him until he wets himself. Then he sings about it as loudly as possible to humiliate Owen. When he sees Owen writing a letter for Abby, he follows him into the bathroom. He then demands Owen to show him the letter. When the latter doesn't, he proceeds to whip Owen with a metal antenna so hard then it leaves a bloody wound on Owen's face. On a field trip, he plans to throw Owen into a frozen lake. When Owen picks up a stick to defend himself, Kenny threatens to rape him with it. At the end of the film, he enlists his older brother help to attack Owen. While Kenny shows hesitation when it became obvious that Jimmy was planning on actually killing him, he was still gleefully taking part in the assault beforehand; dragging Owen roughly over the tiles of the pool area as Owen screamed in pain/terror. | |
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Satanic Panic | |
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Satanic Panic: Appropriately for the '80s setting, the police office believes Thomas may be part of a satanic cult. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Sort of. It takes a very short length of time from Abby and Owen meeting each other to Owen being willing to run away with her. In the fifth scene they have together, Owen announces to her that he "likes her, a lot". In their sixth after Thomas sacrifices his life to Abby, she's grown so fond of Owen that she goes to him for comfort. She then sneaks into his bed to cuddle with him and he asks her to be his girlfriend, which she agrees to. | |
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The Fog of Ages | |
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The Fog of Ages: Abby genuinely can't seem to recall her own age. When Owen asks her age, she says 12, "more or less" and later she says she's been "12, for a very long time", implying she's forgotten or lost track of how long she's been alive. That, or she's just being evasive to not scare Owen. | |
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Teens Are Monsters: Jimmy. His sadism and cruelty even scared the other bullies. He was going to kill Owen for defending himself against his brother. Kenny and his friends might count, as they're in the same class as 12-year old Owen, but look older than he is. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Thomas displays many childish traits, like getting extremely jealous of the attention Owen receives from Abby. When he leaves a note for Abby, it's misspelled, saying "I'm sory Abby", and the writing is in a very childish scribble. Justified, as the film heavily implies he's been her familiar for decades since he was a child and with no contact with anyone besides someone stuck as a 12 year old, he didn't have a lot of opportunity to mature. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
| Let Me In / int_3b9b21c9 | comment |
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: As noted under the Pretty Boy entry, Owen is very fine featured and beautiful. Sadly, this makes him a magnet for bullies. | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil: A possible interpretation for Owen's decision to run away with Abby by the end of the film. Judging by his phone call to his father, near the end of the movie, it's obvious he's considering the possibility that Abby is evil and struggling with that fact. However, most of the normal, self-proclaimed "good," world has been cruel to Owen: his parents neglect him, he has no friends, and no one protects him from the bullies who torture him every day. Abby, however, is kind to him, gives him attention and affection, and ends up massacring Owen's tormentors when they attempt to drown him. So, you can't really blame him for wanting to throw in his lot with Abby, despite the fact she's a vampire who kills people. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Let Me In / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Given that she's a vampire with superhuman strength, Abby is able to tear through Owen's bullies in seconds. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
| Let Me In / int_3ed23024 | comment |
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Owen pulls his knife on the four bullies when they corner him in the locker room... which does absolutely no good, as it's too small to do much damage. The bullies laugh it off, overpower him, and throw him into the pool anyway. Also, Owen has been abused by them constantly and he's already utterly terrified of Kenny, so it's only to be expected that he completely freezes when cornered by all 4 of them. In the original, the pool scene is depicted as a Symbolic Serene Submersion moment with Oskar remaining completely calm while being held underwater, before breaking through calmly without so much as blinking, while smiling lovingly at Elia. In this version, Owen is visibly struggling and terrified before Abby saves him, and as soon as the bully holding his head dies, he immediately rushes to the surface and spends almost a minute gasping and recomposing himself, while covered in blood. When he looks up at Abby, he looks like he's in shock before he forms a trembling, very slight, smile. However relieved he is to have been saved and how happy he is to see Abby again, he's just been through an extremely traumatizing experience. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Thomas in this version seems to have been divorced from the clear pedophile storyline of HÃ¥kan in the book and the softened version of it from the Swedish film. Here, there is a scene revealing that his counterpart met Abby when he was a child. Owen, while still retaining some of the darker aspects of Oskar (i.e. fantasizing about killing his bullies), has had most of the most disturbing aspects of his character removed, such as committing arson at his school, shoplifting, and having an obsession with serial killers. All in all, he comes across as a much more gentle, innocent character than Oskar was. In addition, Oskar could be quite snide to Elia throughout the book whereas Owen's an absolute sweetheart to Abby throughout the entire film. | |
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The Renfield | |
| Let Me In / int_3fb4b1cb | comment |
The Renfield: Thomas procures blood for Abby. An interpretation of the story is that Owen is destined to assume this role in the future. | |
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Hair-Contrast Duo | |
| Let Me In / int_40b711d5 | comment |
Hair-Contrast Duo. Abby's hair is blonde, while Owen's hair is black. Interestingly, the stereotypes are switched around. Owen, despite his raven black hair, is the gentle-natured one being shy, innocent, kind and curious. While Abby is the darker character by far, almost totally apathetic to the outside world, she's absolutely ruthless in her pursuit of blood. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: After Kenny beats him up and intimidates Owen into lying about what happened, he tells his mother that he fell on the playground. Despite the fact he has a gash in his cheek and is obviously very upset about something, she believes him. When Owen's mother demands to know where he's been after being out with Abby, Owen unconvincingly claims he's been in the courtyard the whole time. She seems to buy it. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| Let Me In / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: The ending's sweet in that Owen finally escapes his horrible life in Los Alamos and he's starting a new life with Abby, who he loves and has a very gentle, affectionate relationship with. It's bitter in that no matter how their relationship pans out (whether she turns him into a vampire or he becomes her familiar), they'll spend the rest of their lives as nomads committing murder and Owen will never see his parents again (although, seeing as how neglectful and unconcerned with his suffering they both were, it's really hard to see Owen missing them in any way). | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Kenny's older brother Jimmy. It's implied that it's because of him that Kenny became a bully himself, since he calls Kenny a "little girl" to mock him in much the same way Kenny does to Owen. He's also the one who leads the bullies and threatens Owen with either drowning him or picking out one of his eyes, to the objections of Kenny and his friends who think he's going too far. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending. The final scene is of Owen and Abby on a train leaving to start a new life. However, it is made very clear that Owen's still human, with the closing shot being him staring out into the sunlit countryside. So, does this mean that he's now just another familiar for Abby to use before he gets too old like Thomas? Or does Abby genuinely love him and will turn him at a later point? The director himself said audiences are free to choose their own interpretation. | |
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Symbolic Serene Submersion | |
| Let Me In / int_4517f2a2 | comment |
In the original, the pool scene is depicted as a Symbolic Serene Submersion moment with Oskar remaining completely calm while being held underwater, before breaking through calmly without so much as blinking, while smiling lovingly at Elia. In this version, Owen is visibly struggling and terrified before Abby saves him, and as soon as the bully holding his head dies, he immediately rushes to the surface and spends almost a minute gasping and recomposing himself, while covered in blood. When he looks up at Abby, he looks like he's in shock before he forms a trembling, very slight, smile. However relieved he is to have been saved and how happy he is to see Abby again, he's just been through an extremely traumatizing experience. | |
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Big Damn Hug | |
| Let Me In / int_45334bc1 | comment |
Big Damn Hug: A darker example, as a blood-soaked Abby embraces Owen tightly after killing the policeman in front of him. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
| Let Me In / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Owen's seen shirtless twice, at the beginning of the film where he's practicing his fantasy of killing his bullies in the mirror wearing only his pajama bottoms, and later when he's changing into his swimming trunks. | |
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Bait the Dog | |
| Let Me In / int_4783acfa | comment |
Bait the Dog: Abby is sweet and kind to Owen throughout the film, but is ruthless when killing people for their blood. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Abby's massacre of Owen's bullies, though they're more teens than children. While they're thoroughly unsympathetic and it's hard to blame Abby for being pissed, she could probably have saved Owen without outright killing them. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Owen. The poor guy’s life is a living hell. He lives with his alcoholic mother, his parents are in the midst of a divorce and both are largely absent in his life, and every day at school he's abused, beaten and humiliated by bullies. He's traumatized repeatedly throughout the film: his girlfriend nearly kills him, he sees a man ripped to shreds in front of him, and he's tortured and almost drowned at the end of the film. It says a lot about how awful his life was that going to live a nomadic life with a vampire (either as her familiar or being turned by her) is actually the happiest ending he could have had. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
| Let Me In / int_48c99e19 | comment |
Death by Adaptation: In the book, Eli only kills Jimmy and Kenny's counterparts but lets the other bullies live. Here, she kills them all. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: The human bullies are shown to be just as much of a monster as the vampire who regularly eats people, worse even as Abby only kills people to survive while Kenny regularly abuses Owen for no reason other than sadism. Matt Reeves even commented that he wanted the bullying scenes to be just as intense and filled with dread as the scenes where Abby attacks people. | |
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Villains Want Mercy | |
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Villains Want Mercy: Kenny, despite gleefully abusing Owen, physically and mentally, for the entirety of the film, and getting his brother involved to attack Owen and only offering a very meek protest when he realized Jimmy was actually going to kill Owen, has the audacity to beg Abby for mercy when she massacres the bullies who were drowning Owen. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Let Me In / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: In Let Me In, the bullies try to kill Owen for splitting Kenny's ear, in self defense no less. This is distilled from the book where there was an ongoing series of events to get there, but this is the same level as from the Swedish film. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word: The word "Vampire" is used exactly once in the film. After Owen figures out that what Abby is, he asks her whether she's a vampire. She herself doesn't seem to recognize the term and just replies that she needs blood to live. | |
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Bookends | |
| Let Me In / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Owens introductory scene and his final scene are very similar, with his back to the camera, eating sweets, as he sings softly to himself. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: In the books, Oscar is described as being overweight whereas Owen is very slender. This is probably why the bullies now call him "a little girl" rather than "piggy" like in the book or Swedish adaption. Abby is a lot cleaner and more feminine looking than the mangy, androgynous descriptions of Eli in the book. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
| Let Me In / int_567e7c4d | comment |
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Abby pulls one of these in order to lure in a victim, pretending to have been injured so that he'll pick her up, allowing her to feed on him. | |
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Adaptational Modesty | |
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Adaptational Modesty: The scene where Abby comes into Owen's bed to cuddle with him after Thomas dies. In the original film, Oskar is in his underpants. In the book, he was naked. In this version, he's wearing a pair of pyjamas. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
| Let Me In / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: This version distills the plot further than the Swedish version did. Barely any characters other than the boy and the vampire even register, and one Composite Character is created to fulfill the function of one of the demoted characters at the climax. The film also adds more scenes between Owen and Abby, such as when he confides in her that his parents are getting divorced, and later tells her about how miserable he feels in Los Alamos and just wants to leave. | |
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Vampire Bites Suck | |
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Vampire Bites Suck: When Abby is forced to attack people herself for blood, the results aren't pretty. She usually mauls them like an animal until they die of blood loss or she finishes them off by snapping their necks, so they don't come back as a vampire. | |
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Aliens in Cardiff | |
| Let Me In / int_5c446b43 | comment |
Aliens in Cardiff: Abby has been roaming the suburbs of New Mexico. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: The obvious example is Abby, who is centuries old but stuck in the body of a twelve year old. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: Kenny's friends, Mark and Donald. While they enjoy hurting Owen nearly as much as Kenny does, they still have the sense to try to restrain themselves so they can get away with it. They notably point out to Kenny how stupid it is wounding Owen's face when his mother will want to know what happened to him, they tell Kenny to leave Owen alone when they know Mr. Zorić is watching them harass him and in the pool scene, they both start to panic when they realize that Jimmy is planning on killing Owen. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: Virginia and an unlucky hospital nurse. The former is unknowingly turned into a vampire after being attacked by Abby and is set aflame rather spectacularly when the nurse opens her hospital window blinds, the latter after trying to put out the fire. | |
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Catchphrase Insult | |
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Catchphrase Insult: Kenny is constantly calling Owen "little girl". It's changed from the book where Oskar was called "Piggy", which considering how Owen is as skinny as a reed, wouldn't make any sense if the latter is still used here. | |
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BigDamnKiss | |
| Let Me In / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Near the end of the film, Abby kisses Owen on the lips. Unlike other times when Abby and Owen show each other affection such as pecking him gently on the cheek or hugging each other, this is the scene where they're shown as more than just friends and as a genuine couple. The scene is both heartwarming and disturbing as it occurs just after Abby kills a man and his blood is still on her lips. | |
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| Let Me In / int_63be4131 | type |
Pretty Boy | |
| Let Me In / int_63be4131 | comment |
Pretty Boy: Owen has extremely fine features, a very slender build, big blue eyes and full lips. In the director's commentary, Matt Reeves even mentions that Owen's face is "beautiful". Unfortunately, this works against him. Owen's looks coupled with his small statue are what gets him attention from bullies. It's also probably the main reason Kenny calls him a "little girl". | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Let Me In / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Owen and Thomas to Abby, if you consider Abby evil. Kenny and Jimmy to each other, being brothers. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: Owen's expression in one scene plays off this trope. He worries he is being groomed to be this once he sees a picture of Thomas and Abby together when he was younger. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Thomas. When his attempt to kidnap another man for Abby goes wrong, he ends up crashing the car he was in. And when people start to close in on him, knowing he's about to be caught, and not wanting to be interrogated or ID'd as it would risk exposing Abby, he proceeds to empty a bottle of acid on his face. | |
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Facial Horror | |
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Facial Horror: Thomas, after pouring acid on his face, looks all the worse for it when he is in the hospital. Virginia, who is not only vampiric, but getting rapidly burned by the sun. | |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil | |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The Good. Owen. An innocent, timid, gentle, boy who's victimized by nearly every other force in the film, from the bullies who assault him, to his parents who neglect him. The Bad: Abby. While she doesn't derive any pleasure from it and she's required to drink human blood to live, she still kills scores of innocent people throughout the film. The Evil: Kenny and the bullies. They torture Owen every day for no reason other than cruelty. | |
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Moving-Away Ending | |
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Moving-Away Ending: The films ends with Owen running away from Los Alamos with Abby after she saves him from being drowned. | |
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Iconic Outfit | |
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Iconic Outfit: Owen's thick silver jacket. He wears it in nearly every scene he's in, including the hot, humid changing area of the swimming pool, where wearing it would be rather uncomfortable. This suggests the jacket works as a kind of comfort blanket for him. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Owen suffers a lot more in this version than Oskar did. He's treated much more poorly by his parents. In this version, his mother is an alcoholic who neglects him while in the Swedish version, they have a loving relationship. While Owen's father doesn't even make a single appearance, his voice is only heard on the phone while he totally ignores that his very distressed, crying son plead with him to listen to him. Whereas his Swedish counterpart, despite heavily implied to be an alcoholic, made the effort to see him every weekend. Also, the bullying he endures is much more brutal and violent than the kind shown in the Swedish version, which was a lot more childish than the abuse inflicted on him in this continuity. Considering how much more innocent and kind he is than in other versions, it makes his abuse much harder to watch. | |
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Growling Gut | |
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Growling Gut: Abby experiences this whenever she goes without drinking blood for a period of time. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: A marginal example in the pool scene. In the Swedish version, Oskar makes no effort to resist the bullies and even meekly swims towards them when asked. Owen, on the other hand, is more proactive in defending himself, the second he realizes the bullies are going to attack him again, he bolts out of the pool and runs towards his locker to get his knife. It doesn't do much good, as he's a small, half naked boy against 4 teenagers armed only with a small pocket knife, but it's still a much greater effort at protecting himself than Oskar ever did. | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me: Despite the fact that Owen is terrified of her vampiric nature and is worried that Abby is evil, he still helps and loves her because she's the only person in his life who shows him the slightest degree of concern, affection or attention. This is seen when Abby kills the policeman; Owen finds it very distressing to watch, but he still closes the door when the man is pleading for help, and assists Abby in hiding the body. A possible interpretation for why Abby is so protective and kind towards Owen. Throughout the film due to Thomas incompetence, she's starving and Owen would make a perfect victim to kill and dispose of (he clearly has no friends and is neglected at home by his parents). But because he's so sweet and friendly towards her (i.e. offering her his Rubik's cube when he finds out she doesn't celebrate her birthday, hugging her to comfort her after she vomits outside the arcade), she decides to become his main protector and friend. | |
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior | |
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Besides Abby herself, there are other examples. Kenny and his friends' torment of Owen goes beyond normal schoolyard bullying into truly disturbing moments of sadism, it even becomes somewhat sexual at times. The most disturbing of which is when Owen picks up a metal pole to defend himself at a lake and Kenny's only response is to promise him he'll rape him with it before drowning him. Owen himself. He regularly plays with knives and rehearses his fantasies of killing his bullies: Sympathetic, considering how horribly he's treated by them, but still rather disturbing to watch. | |
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Crime of Self-Defense | |
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Crime of Self-Defense: When Owen defends himself and hits Kenny hes the one seen being summoned to the prinicipals office to be scolded and castigated, despite the fact there was a teacher who had witnessed Owen being harassed by Kenny and his friends. What makes this doubly unfair is how savagely Kenny bullies Owen with no adult intervening throughout the film. | |
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Violence Really Is the Answer | |
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Violence Really Is the Answer: Abby certainly believes so. When she sees the cut on Owen's cheek, she immediately suggests to Owen that he hit his bullies back. When he points out he's outnumbered by them, she just replies to use weapons. She is vindicated as, for the first half of the movie when Owen simply tried to avoid the bullies, they tortured him endlessly, but when he slams a metal pole into Kenny's head they leave him alone. They do come back for revenge later, but it's only when Kenny has got the support of his much older brother to help him attack Owen. Then Abby ends the bullies' torment of Owen permanently by killing them. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Abby, due to her nature as a vampire living a nomadic life for centuries, is shown to be very ignorant of modern culture. She doesn't know what video games are and despite loving puzzles, she doesn't know what a Rubik's cube is, to Owen's shock and confusion. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: Used to signify that this is principally a tale about childhood (more or less), with adult characters mostly peripheral and often fleeting. Owen's island-like status is emphasized by his absent father only making one scene by telephone, and his mother - a fairly constant presence in the book - appears numerous times yet is never once seen properly on camera: she varies from being a distant figure, a ghostly reflection or obscured by a door, to fully visible yet thrown way out of focus or seen only from the neck down; even a passport-type photo glimpsed in her wallet is crumpled to the point of indistinguishability. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Owen's mother, making her a Composite Character of Oskar's parents in the novel and Swedish film. She's seen drinking or holding a glass of wine in almost every scene she's in. She also drinks so much she passes out. In one heartbreaking scene in the film after Owen was almost killed, he goes to his mum for comfort only for her to be passed out drunk. | |
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Trial Balloon Question | |
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Trial Balloon Question: After Abby is sick in the car park of the arcade, Owen immediately goes to comfort and hug her. Abby, touched by this, asks him if he likes her, and Owen replies that he does, a lot. Abby decided to ask further about whether Owen would still like her if she wasn't a girl (i.e. that she's a vampire, not a normal human). Owen gets confused by this but confirms that he would still love her. | |
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Separated by the Wall | |
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Separated by the Wall: Abby moves in to the apartment next door to Owen, and as the two become friends, they learn to communicate with each other using Morse code through the separating wall. | |
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Fight Unscene | |
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Fight Unscene: None of Abby's massacre of the bullies is portrayed onscreen. All the audience hears are their screams. The camera is focused on Owen the entire time when he's underwater and when he's recovering from being almost drowned to death. | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: The police officer. He has noticed the pattern of Abby and Thomas' killings throughout the country and he knows there's something deeply unnatural about them. However, since he doesn't know he's in a supernatural film, he comes to the conclusion that Thomas is some kind of satanic cultist. | |
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Zig-Zagging Trope | |
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Owen could count as an example. He certainly looks the part physically, with his raven black hair, almost inhumanly pale skin and slender, almost malnourished-looking body. He also has some rather unsettling quirks; he softly sings to himself all the time, and he regularly fantasizes about killing people and acts it out with his knife. But seeing as he's being tortured every day by bullies and isn't helped or protected in any way, it's probably the only way he knows how to cope with the constant abuse. He's also seen spying on his neighbors with a telescope, but that's more due to his sheer loneliness. Therefore, he is a very tragic and sympathetic version. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue | |
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Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Abby slaughters Owen's bullies in order to save him from being drowned. | |
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Adaptational Slimness | |
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Adaptational Slimness: In the books Oskar was described as overweight while Owen is a very scrawny boy. | |
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Non-Answer | |
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Non-Answer: Abby gives rather vague or cryptic answers when Owen asks her questions. When Owen asks her what her true age is, she only responds that she's been 12 for a "long time". When Abby tries to tell Owen they can't be boyfriend and girlfriend because "she's not a girl" (i.e. she's a vampire, not a human), Owen understandably gets confused and asks her what that means. Her response is to claim she's "nothing", which backfires on Abby as Owen thinks she's just making excuses to not go out with him and gets upset. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: Due to the Adaptation Distillation of this film, this affects the story even more than the original, and may be a deliberate deconstruction of the trope. Whereas a lot of Abby's victims in the book had distinct personalities and backstories, here they're mainly extras so the audience finds it hard to care when they die at her hand. This coupled with the increased focus on Owen and Abby's relationship makes her seem more sympathetic than she really should be. Owen, for the most part, seems to realise her killing people is wrong, judging by his phone call to his father. However, he quickly accepts Abby's nature because she's the only person who's ever been kind to him. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Abby counts, as she kills many innocent people without remorse. The only decent trait of hers is the kindness she shows to Owen. | |
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School Bullying Is Harmless | |
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School Bullying Is Harmless: Completely averted. School bullying is portrayed as just as seriously as any other form of abuse and it's obvious Owen's traumatized from enduring constant assaults and humiliations every day at school with no authority figure protecting or helping him, to the point he's developing several psychological quirks: he wets himself at age 12, he fantasizes about killing his bullies constantly and it's implied he doesn't eat very much. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Owen's bullies. Abby might be rather brutal when tearing them apart, but even if some of them expressed uncertainty about their final attacks on him, they had spent the majority of the movie humiliating, assaulting, or threatening Owen. | |
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Battle Discretion Shot | |
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Battle Discretion Shot: Abby's slaughter of the bullies at the climax is obscured; the camera remains underwater and focused on Owen the whole time. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: Owen's a complicated case, as while he is shown to be a very gentle, naive boy, especially in his date scenes with Abby, he does take part in detailed re-enactments of killing the bullies who torment him every day. His innocence can be best scene when Abby crawls into his bed naked to cuddle with him; he's surprised but doesn't do anything. When he asks Abby to be his girlfriend, she seems hesitant and worried that Owen might want something more than friendship from her, only for Owen to tell her nothing would change between them. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Owen's bedroom has a space theme, with posters of outer space and a space shuttle prominently displayed. According to Kodi Smit-McPhee, this is to symbolize both Owen's sense of isolation and his desire to escape from his surroundings. He also said that Owen's silver jacket is meant to look similar to an astronaut's spacesuit. | |
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Paper Tiger | |
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Paper Tiger: Kenny, who acts like he's tough despite the fact he and his friends are ganging up on a boy who is considerably smaller than he is. And the first time Owen stands up to him by hitting him with a stick, he goes down crying like a small child. Notably, he leaves Owen alone for the rest of the film until he has his older teenage brother backing him up. | |
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Undead Barefooter | |
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Undead Barefooter: For the most part, Abby never wears any shoes, due to her not feeling the cold. She is seen wearing boots in one scene with Owen, after she completes the Rubik's cube, but it seems she was just wearing them to make Owen feel more comfortable around her, as he noted earlier how weird it was that she went barefoot in the snow. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Despite the fact it's obvious Owen has mental health problems (he enacts his murder fantasies in the open courtyard of his apartment complex), no one suggests he should be offered help or someone to talk to. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: The film has two main antagonists: Kenny, Owen's persistent tormentor. The police officer, who is investigating Abby's murders. | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: In a deleted scene, it's revealed Abby's uncle was a vampire who turned her after apparently raping her. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: A moderate example with Owen. While he remains a shy, withdrawn, little boy throughout the film, he does become more assertive and ready to defend himself, at Abby's encouragement. In the beginning of the film, he makes no effort to fight back as the bullies hurt him, but halfway through the film, he splits Kenny's ear with a metal pole when Kenny tried to hurt him, and when they ambush him at the pool, his first instinct is to grab his knife. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: At one point, Owen tells Abby how much he hates Los Alamos, and that he just wants to leave and never come back. In response, Abby takes his hand as if inviting him to leave with her. He does just that at the end. When Abby notices the cut on Owen's cheek and inquires what caused it, Owen, ashamed, admits that he's being bullied. Abby then tells him that he needs to fight back, when Owen points out there's three of them, she advises him to use the knife and when Owen asks what he should do if that isn't enough, she promises she'll protect him. This exactly how Owen interactions with the bullies play out for the rest of the film; he defends himself against Kenny by hitting him with a stick, and when they come for revenge, Owen grabs his pocket knife and when they overpower him, Abby intervenes and kills them. | |
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Flight | |
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Flight: Abby claims to be capable of flight. Although she's never shown flying on-screen, there's evidence to support her claim. In the scene where she massacres the bullies, you can see Kenny being dragged underwater from Owen's point of view and notably, he's far too deep in the water for Abby to have dragged him from along the pool's edge. Also, after killing Thomas at the hospital while leaving from the window ledge rather than crawl back down, she's shown jumping with the sound of wings flapping being heard. The sound of wings flapping can be heard in the pool scene as well when the bullies hear Abby enter the building through the skylight and when the massacre ends. | |
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Mundanger | |
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Mundanger: Despite the presence of the vampire, Abby, the main antagonistic force in the film is the much more mundane threat posed by the bullying Kenny and his two friends. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Abby doesn't age, she's strong enough to rip a human body to shreds, she's capable of putting people into trances and invading their minds, she's strongly implied to be able to fly, sunlight instantly causes her skin to blister and burn, she's bound by extremely strict rules regarding her need to get someone's permission to enter her home (she needs verbal permission each individual time and if she doesn't, she starts bleeding to death), she starts to smell if she goes without eating, she doesn't feel the cold, she can't consume any food without making her sick, she seems to enter into a sort of hibernation rather than sleep when she rests, she had a demonic form she assumes when her bloodlust overwhelms her. Also in this film, vampiric bites are extremely infectious; all that's required to turn someone is to bite them, which means when Abby kills, she usually snaps her victims' necks so they won't turn. | |
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Not Now, Kiddo | |
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Not Now, Kiddo: A tragic version. After realizing what Abby is, Owen goes to his parents for comfort... only for his mother to be passed out drunk, and when he calls his father, he completely ignores Owen's questions to make it about his divorce. | |
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First Kiss | |
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First Kiss: Abby kisses Owen on the cheek after he tells her how he stood up to Kenny. | |
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette | |
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Owen, despite being a normal human boy, is extremely pale. He's actually more pale than Abby, who is undead. This is coupled with the fact in this continuity, he's the one with dark hair and he actually looks more vampiric than Abby does at times. | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain: A very tragic case with Owen. Despite being a kind, innocent boy, he was already showing signs of snapping from the abuse he was enduring at the hands of Kenny (i.e. fantasizing about killing him constantly, even re-enacting it with a knife), and Abby's appearance in his life just accelerated it. By the end of the film, no matter what Owen's fate is with Abby, becoming her familiar or being turned into a vampire by her, he's going to end up killing people for the rest of his life. | |
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Good with Numbers | |
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Good with Numbers: A possible case with Owen. When asked about his age, he immediately answered to the exact day "12 years,8 months and 9 days" implying he calculated the exact figure almost instantly in his head... which would be rather impressive for a 12-year-old, or sadly it might be that he hates his life so much he keeps a count of how old he is until he turns 18 and can leave his home behind. | |
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Parental Obliviousness | |
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Parental Obliviousness: Owen's mother is completely ignorant of her own son's life. She doesn't notice how horribly he's being abused by bullies, despite the fact he shows up with wounds at their apartment and is obviously miserable and desperately lonely. Notably after Owen's called to the principal's office after defending himself against Kenny, all she can state is that he's "a good boy", never bothering to inquire why exactly her gentle, quiet son would attack someone. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Earlier in the film, Kenny snaps a wet towel into Owen's eyes. Also discussed; Kenny's older brother threatens to put one of Owen's eyes out. | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!" | |
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Rapid-Fire "No!": At the end, Kenny can be heard pleading with Abby in this fashion before she kills him off screen. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: In Let the Right One In, Eli had dark hair and Oskar was blonde. In this film, Owen has dark hair and Abby is the blonde. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Due to the film being a mix between a Puppy Love romance tale and a brutal horror story, this happens frequently. Notably, there's the cellar scene which changes from an awkward date scene to an extremely tense scene, where Abby goes from excitedly waiting for a kiss from Owen, to almost killing him. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: Neither of Owens' parents give him any attention or consideration, beyond his basic material needs. His father mentions he hasn't seen him in months and in the one scene they walk, he plainly doesn't care or notice that his son is crying. His mother frequently ignores him so she can drink. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: While she does have sympathetic qualities, Abby still kills multiple innocent people throughout the film and she gets away with absolutely everything by the end. Her situation has even improved as she has an adoring new boyfriend. | |
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Super-Strength | |
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Super-Strength: Abby, due to being a vampire. At first she's shown to be strong enough to wrestle a muscular man to the ground before snapping his neck, but by the end of the film, you see how strong she really is. She rips Kenny's brother's head clean off his shoulders and she literally rips the other bullies apart. | |
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Adaptational Jerkass | |
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Adaptational Jerkass: Jimmy is much more of a Big Brother Bully here, mocking Kenny for his injury, and basically threatening him into giving him his keys, which he seemed a lot more casual about in the Swedish film. Abby is a lot ruder and demanding towards Thomas than Eli was to Hakan. This is best seen when they lose the blood they had procured for Abby/Eli. In the book, Eli desperately pleads with him to try again, whereas Abby is absolutely furious with him screaming at him in a demonic voice while he cowers on the floor. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Tragically, it's a running theme in the film that almost every adult in Owen's life totally fails to protect him, or even notice just how much pain he's being put through. The only adult character who's useful at all is Mr. Zoric the gym teacher. He's the only adult to show Owen any care/attention and encourages him to exercise to get stronger and he's the only teacher who sees what a monster Kenny is. For a specific example, Owen gets blamed for hitting Kenny on the ice, despite acting in self-defense, with the principal threatening to suspend him over the incident. There's no mention of Kenny getting in trouble for threatening to drown him. Notably when he's in the principal's office, he doesn't even bother telling her what Kenny was planning on doing to him, assuming that neither she nor his mother would believe him. This trope is also deconstructed by the film, as the neglect and apathy from the adults in his life leads Owen to believe no one can help him. This is best demonstrated when he tearfully goes to his parents for comfort after discovering Abby's a vampire and both times, he's ignored. After that, any chance Owen would change his mind or refuse to join Abby in a life of murder is vanquished. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Owen and Abby's relationship. She's a ruthless vampire while he's a meek, timid boy. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The remake has two instances of this, since it takes place in the 1980s. The first is when Kenny is being forced to do laps for sexually harassing a classmate. If the movie had taken place in modern-day, his punishment would have been much more severe. Another one was Owen being able to buy a knife at only 12-years-old, which would not fly as easily in the post-Columbine society. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: When Owen comes home with a bloody wound on his face and tells his mother he got it from falling in the playground, she tells him: "You have to be more careful, honey. I hate to see my baby get hurt". She's completely unaware that Owen's getting tortured daily by bullies. | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: A variant with Owen in regards to Abby's behavior. He certainly notices how odd her behavior is, asking why she doesn't wear shoes in the snow, remarks how odd it is she never appears in daylight nor knows very famous pop culture items like a Rubik's cube. And when he confronts Abby, he immediately asks whether she's a vampire, implying he had already guessed, judging by her behavior. It's simply that Owen's so desperately lonely that he's willing to overlook those traits as long as Abby will be his friend. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Thomas still has a sad ending, despite the fact that in this version, he's still a serial killer, holding a sobbing Abby in his arms and letting her feed on him before falling out the hospital window to his death. Especially considering what he does to his face to keep Abby safe beforehand. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Owen and his "Now and Later" sweets. Comments by his mother indicate it's almost the only thing he actually eats, he's very excited about sharing them with Abby, and at the end of the film when he has run away with Abby, he's shown to have taken the time to buy himself some more for the train ride. | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: The bullies' chosen insult for Owen, "Little girl" and "she", don't make a lot of sense. Nothing Owen says or does throughout the film indicates that he's particularly effeminate. | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: Kenny and his brother's attitude towards Owen. While the other two bullies enjoy torturing Owen, they at least temper their abuse so they can get away with it. Kenny, on the other hand, has no problem with wounding Owen's face or threatening to kill him while a teacher is watching. Kenny's brother is even worse, he was either going to drown or cut out Owen's eye if Abby hadn't intervened with no real plan of how they were going to get away with leaving a dead body or a mutilated, half-blind boy in a public pool. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat Thomas. He's treated like a slave by Abby and he endures a lot of verbal abuse from her without complaint. He's even willing to pour concentrated acid over himself to protect her. He does lose his temper and screams at her, but it's after she admitted to just leaving one of her victims out in the open and expecting him to clean it up, so it's rather understandable. Owen counts as well. He endures a lot of abuse from the bullies without fighting back until Abby encourages him to. When Kenny wounds his face, he orders Owen to lie to his mother about what happened. Owen is terrified but agrees and is seen doing just that. Part of Owen's character development is becoming less weak willed and submissive. Later in the film, he stands up to Abby when she blocks him from leaving when he finds out she's a vampire. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: Oddly heartwarming. Kind of. | |
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Sadist | |
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Sadist: Kenny goes beyond being a simple schoolyard bully to this trope. It's obvious he loves causing Owen as much pain, mental and physical, as possible and as frequently as he can. | |
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Blood from Every Orifice | |
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Blood from Every Orifice: If Abby enters a place without being invited in first, she bleeds from everywhere. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Most of the mid-level characters from previous versions are excluded from this version. | |
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Must Be Invited | |
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Must Be Invited: The movie universe takes this rule very seriously. When Abby violates it, the results are literally very bloody. Also, vampires have to specifically get an invitation every single time they enter a home. Abby had already gotten Owen's permission to enter into his apartment earlier when she sneaked into his room, but she had to ask again. | |
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Sadistic Choice | |
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Sadistic Choice: The climax involves a sadistic contest of Owen being held underwater; if he can spend 3 minutes below the surface, he just gets a cut on his cheek... but if he can't spend 3 minutes below the surface, he gets his eye gouged out. Mind you, he is also being held down by a bigger teen's hand which could also drown him instead. Ultimately it's subverted through a third option, as Owen's vampire lover comes to even the score. | |
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Sweet Tooth | |
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Sweet Tooth: Owen, despite being very skinny, is shown to have an enormous appetite for sweets. Early in the film, his mother accuses him of spoiling dinner again, implying that his "Now and Later" sweets make up the majority of his diet. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: Both of Owen's parents are incredibly self-absorbed and show no consideration towards their own son. Owen's mother is a self-pitying alcoholic who doesn't notice or care that her son is deeply miserable and is being horribly abused at school, and shows him no concern or attention throughout the film. As for Owen's father, the movie implies he hadn't physically seen Owen in months. When Owen discovers Abby's a vampire, he calls him for advice, only for his father to assume he's being manipulated by his mother and starts berating him for listening to her. It could be argued that he's genuinely concerned for his son's well-being and worried about his care under his mother, considering she's an alcoholic and religious fundamentalist and he mentions she has "issues", but that just raises the question of why he isn't the one taking care of Owen. | |
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Danger Takes a Backseat | |
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Danger Takes a Backseat: One of the most intense sequences in the film has Thomas hiding in the backseat of a car in order to kill someone for Abby to feed on. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Whatever you do, don't try to hurt the boy the vampire likes. Notably, when she rescues Owen at the end of the film at the pool and starts to slaughter the bullies, she screams in pure primal rage throughout the entire massacre demonstrating just how angry Owen's torture and suffering has made her. For Kenny, pretty much anything Owen does seems to send him into a violent rage, to the point that seeing Owen happy makes Kenny genuinely furious. He also really hates Owen defying or trying to stand up to him. | |
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Desperately Craves Affection | |
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Desperately Craves Affection: Owen, due to his extreme loneliness, having no friends and being neglected by his mother, can be seen looking enviously at happy couples throughout the movie. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: Abby, due to centuries being an undead vampire living in isolation with only her familiar, Thomas, who's implied to make most of their living arrangements, as company. She doesn't recognize major pop culture items like a Rubik's cube, she's very cold and standoffish to Owen when they first meet. She also doesn't seem to recognize how odd her behavior is; she walks around in her bare feet in the snow despite how odd it makes her look, and after Thomas dies and when she goes to Owen's room for comfort, she sneaks into his bed after stripping naked and doesn't understand why Owen is shocked. | |
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Impossible Task | |
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Impossible Task: The sadistic test the bullies put Owen through in the pool. If Owen, a scrawny boy, can hold his breath for 3 minutes, they'll simply cut his cheek. If he fails, they'll gouge one of his eyes out. Although judging by how Kenny's brother very strongly held his head down under the water, it seems more that Jimmy's intention was always just to drown him and presenting Owen with a "test" was simply a way to mentally torture him before he died. | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: Towards the end of the film, Owen sneaks out from his mother's apartment to spend the night with Abby and it's never made clear what precisely they were doing during the entire night. While their relationship is portrayed for the most part, as very sweet and innocent, the scene immediately occurred after Abby and Owen reconciled their relationship before being interrupted by his mother's entrance into the apartment. So while it's rather unlikely they had sex, it's still somewhat ambiguous. | |
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Boy Meets Ghoul | |
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Boy Meets Ghoul: A charming story where the bullied boy meets a charming vampire when she moves in next door. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: The film takes place in 1983. | |
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Murder by Inaction | |
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Murder by Inaction: When Abby attacks the policeman, he reaches out to Owen for help, but Owen backs away and closes the door, letting Abby finish him off. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: When Owen picks up a metal rod to protect himself against Kenny, he threatens to take it off him and sodomize him with it. Considering how vicious and sadistic Kenny is towards Owen, it's very hard to tell if he's making a sick joke or he genuinely means it. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: After he finally stands up to Kenny, things finally look like they might be improving for Owen. He started a strength building course at school, his bullies are leaving him alone, and Abby has agreed to be his girlfriend. Then when he initiates a friendship pact with her, not knowing she's a vampire, she very nearly kills him by mistake. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Owen is a sweet-natured kid who has had a really shitty life. This is most apparent in his scenes with Abby where he's very kind and sweet to her, as seen when Abby comments she can't remember her birthday and consequently doesn't receive any presents - Owen instantly offers her his Rubik's cube, despite him barely knowing her and it being his favourite toy. | |
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Chastity Couple | |
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Chastity Couple: Due to the film being a Puppy Love story, Abby and Owen as a couple are this trope. Their bonding moments mainly involve long hugs. Abby only kisses Owen twice in the entire film and only then, they were two quick pecks on his lips and cheek. Even when Abby sneaks into Owen's room, takes off her clothes and crawls into his bed to snuggle up to him, it isn't portrayed as anything sexual and more like an innocent sleepover. | |
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Telepathy | |
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Telepathy: One of Abby's powers, as shown in a deleted scene where she shows Owen how she became a vampire. She gazes into his eyes as she puts him into a trance, and he's shown the very violent attack Abby endured from the vampire who turned her. When Abby breaks it off, Owen looks traumatized and clutches the exact spot on his neck where Abby was bitten, heavily implying he literally felt what she went through. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: It's implied that the reason why Kenny bullies Owen more harshly than the others is because he himself is being bullied by his big brother. His brother even calls him a "little girl" which is what Kenny has been calling Owen. | |
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Undead Child | |
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Undead Child: Abby says she is twelve years old. However, she has been twelve years old for a very long time. Depending on how you interpret the end of the film, that could also be the future fate of Owen. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Abby's slaughter of the bullies. During the entirety of the scenes, the cameras focused on Owen's emaciated back covered in blood, but you can hear what's happening - From the bullies' screams of terror and the sounds of their flesh being ripped apart and thrown into the pool, to Abby's own inhuman roars. Throughout the scene, you can also hear the sound of wings flapping; Abby was never shown to have wings when seen in vampire form, so the audience can only guess what she looks like as she kills the boys. Most disturbingly at the end, when Owen has recovered from his near drowning, Abby's bare feet, drenched in blood appear and she picks him up by his head to look at her. When he does, he looks to be in awe and fear, which could just simply be through the trauma of almost dying. However, Abby's face is never seen once during that entire scene, so what exactly could Owen be looking at? | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Ironically in the same film that didn't mind showing more blood, several characters are less morally murky here than the book and Swedish film. Owen is still a bullied kid who has a knife who thinks about attacking his bullies, yet he doesn't do a fraction of the stuff book Oskar did, like shoplifting or setting a fire at his school. Thomas is separated out from Hakan by dropping all the pedophile storyline in favor of him having met Abby similar to how Owen did when he was younger. | |
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Nightmare Face | |
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Nightmare Face: Played deadly straight with Abby when her vampiric instincts kick in and she starts feeding. Thomas's face is also horrifying to look at after he pours concentrated acid over himself. | |
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Horror Hunger | |
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Horror Hunger: Abby is shown to get ravenously hungry for human blood, to the point it overwhelms her better judgement. She kills and eats a human jogger when she gets hungry enough without thinking to hide the body afterwards. Later in the cellar scene with Owen, after he tried to initiate a friendship pact by cutting his thumb, she immediately looks at him like a predator spotting prey and nearly kills him. | |
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Non-Human Lover Reveal | |
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Non Human Lover Reveal: A puppy love version. When Owen and Abby are cuddling in bed, Abby tells him she's not a girl, as in she's not a human but a vampire, which just confuses Owen. Later when they're in the cellar, Owen finally sees what Abby is when he tries to initiate a friendship pact which causes Abby's Horror Hunger to kick in. She assumes her demonic form and throws herself to the ground to lick Owen's blood off the floor with an elongated tongue, to his horror. | |
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Innocent Blue Eyes | |
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Innocent Blue Eyes: Owen, despite developing several psychological quirks due to the loneliness and abuse he endures, is the most innocent, gentle-hearted character in the film and he has light greenish blue eyes. | |
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Puppy Love | |
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Puppy Love: The main plot of the film, concerning the growing relationship between a lonely 12-year-old boy and a girl who's been stuck mentally and physically at age 12 for centuries. Despite the film being a very dark and brutal horror film, their relationship is portrayed as very sweet and innocent. | |
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Immortal Immaturity | |
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Abby herself counts, despite being a vampire for centuries. Notably when she kills the jogger, she just leaves the body there in the open to the extreme frustration of Thomas. The detective who was investigating her murders was then able to find where she lived very quickly. Justified by her Immortal Immaturity; Abby is stuck with the mental/emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. | |
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Window Love | |
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Window Love: When Abby crawls up the hospital and sits on the window ledge of Thomas's room, she gently places her hand on the glass. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: A lot of characters had their names changed to fit in better in America than Sweden. Oskar became Owen. Eli became Abby. Hakan became Thomas. Conny became Kenny (ironically his original name in the book was Jonny). | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Owen has definitely hit this when Abby leaves him after killing the policeman. As he watches her go, he seems in shock and can't even show emotion. The next day, he just stares out the window at the empty jungle gym, crying his heart out. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: Abby gives one while feeding on the man in the tunnel, helped by the camera focusing on it. | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
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Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Thomas, despite the film implying that he's been harvesting people for Abby for decades, isn't terribly good at his job. In his first scene, he knocks over the bottle of blood he had just gathered and nearly gets seen by a driver. Justified possibly, in that Thomas himself mentions he's tired of murdering people and he's not sure whether he wants to get caught or not. Abby herself counts, despite being a vampire for centuries. Notably when she kills the jogger, she just leaves the body there in the open to the extreme frustration of Thomas. The detective who was investigating her murders was then able to find where she lived very quickly. Justified by her Immortal Immaturity; Abby is stuck with the mental/emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. | |
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Blood Oath | |
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Blood Oath: Owen cuts his hand and suggests this to Abby. Abby, being a vampire, takes it somewhat less than calmly. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Owen to Abby. Throughout the film, Abby shows herself to be an extremely ruthless character, willing to send Thomas out to kill people, treats Thomas like a slave and is willing to kill people herself to stay alive, but she is kind and protective towards Owen. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Kenny. He is by far the most disgusting and evil character in the film, to the point he makes Abby (a vampire who kills many innocent people throughout the film) look sympathetic. For starters, he bullies Owen horribly, hurting, degrading and humiliating him as often as he possibly can for no reason other than cruelty. Instances of this include whipping Owen bloody with a metal antenna, threatening to rape and drown him at a frozen lake, and attacking Owen until he wets himself. He's a coward who never attacks Owen alone despite the fact he's about twice his size and when Owen stands up for himself, he needs the support of his older brother before he goes near him again. | |
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Screaming Warrior | |
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Screaming Warrior: When Owen is being drowned by the bullies, Abby comes to save him. The first sign that she's there is the scream of primal rage she emits before she breaks through the skylight. She continues to scream throughout the entirety of the massacre. | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
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Shrinking Violet: Owen's a rare male version due to the constant bullying he endures. As a consequence, he's painfully shy, reserved, and quiet. | |
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Dirty Kid | |
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Dirty Kid: Implied initially with Owen at the beginning where one of his first scenes involve him spying on his neighbours as they're about to have sex, but it's shown to be more out of curiosity than anything perverted. Throughout the rest of the film, Owen is shown to be quite innocent. When Abby sneaks into his bed naked, he's shocked and doesn't do anything. Later when they're alone in the basement and she asks him what he wants to do, he breaks out into a nervous, goofy grin. Plus, it should be noted in their relationship that Abby is the one who kisses him while Owen seems to prefer long hugs. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: When it's made abundantly clear that Owen's going to die via drowning at the hands of Jimmy, the other bullies hear the sound of the skylight breaking and hear Abby's inhuman shriek of rage. She then proceeds to rip every bully apart for their torment of Owen. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: After Owen vents about how much he wants to leave town, Abby tenderly takes his hand, and it seems it might be heading toward a kiss... when Owen's mother calls out to him. Owen's reaction really sells it. The scene in the cellar. It looks like Owen and Abby might kiss each other on the lips, only for Owen himself to ruin it by trying to turn the moment into a friendship pact, due to his being too shy to kiss her. He waves his bloody hand at Abby, a vampire, whose instincts kick in and she very nearly kills Owen. | |
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Suicidal Sadistic Choice | |
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Suicidal Sadistic Choice: When Owen's ambushed by Kenny and the bullies in the swimming pool, they present him with two choices; either he should hold his head under the water until he drowns, or let one of his eyes be destroyed. Although, judging by how Kenny's brother, Jimmy, was forcibly holding his head down, it seems that he was always planning on just killing Owen. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Despite their relationship having deteriorated, it's shown that Thomas ultimately possesses this for Abby. After crashing a car whilst attempting to kill another victim for her, Thomas chooses to burn his own face off with acid rather than risk Abby being found and killed, and let's her feed on him both to end his agony and also to tell her to go on and live without him. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Abby counts as one given how she's a vampire who murders people on-screen, and because she's been a child for a long time due to her nature. Owen could count as an example. He certainly looks the part physically, with his raven black hair, almost inhumanly pale skin and slender, almost malnourished-looking body. He also has some rather unsettling quirks; he softly sings to himself all the time, and he regularly fantasizes about killing people and acts it out with his knife. But seeing as he's being tortured every day by bullies and isn't helped or protected in any way, it's probably the only way he knows how to cope with the constant abuse. He's also seen spying on his neighbors with a telescope, but that's more due to his sheer loneliness. Therefore, he is a very tragic and sympathetic version. | |
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Tears of Blood | |
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Tears of Blood: If Abby enters a place uninvited, she bleeds from her eyes... and her nose... and her mouth... and pretty much everywhere else. | |
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Muscle Angst | |
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Muscle Angst: Implied with Owen. When looking out into the apartment complex through his telescope, he spots a muscular man lifting weights. He then proceeds to look down at his own very scrawny chest looking rather ashamed. At the end of the film when Owen goes swimming while walking through the locker room in his trunks, he looks very self conscious at having his scrawny body bared around the much more muscular, athletic students. | |
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Dark Secret | |
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Dark Secret: The audience knows that Abby is a vampire the entire time; Owen finds out eventually. Stemming from this, Abby tries to hide the more gruesome aspects of her affliction from her new friend (such as what happens when she enters a house without permission, and what she does while sleeping/recuperating in the bathroom), but Owen deals with each in turn. | |
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Distressed Dude | |
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Distressed Dude: At the end, Owen is ambushed and nearly drowned by his bullies, only for Abby to save him. | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine: During their first date, Owen excitedly offers to buy Abby some of the sweets he loves so much. Abby, knowing it will make her sick, declines as politely as she can. However, seeing that this hurts Owen's feelings, she accepts to please him. The very next shot in the film is of Abby being violently ill in the car park of the shop. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: Owen is at first brutally targeted by the bullies. But until after Abby's encouragement, he finally strikes back, splitting Kenny's ear in the process. | |
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