Let Me Out

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• Mark, his wife Maria and their two daughters were murdered one night at their home in a tragic and bizarre way. Two years later a newlywed couple moves into this house and they start to experience some supernatural occurrences from the very first day, but the couple also believes there are not alone in this house. A year later an alcoholic writer moves into this house to begin an investigation about the disappearance of his daughter that coincidently happened to be around the same time Mark and his entire family were murder. He uncovers what really happened to his daughter and the reason this house is possessed by dead people, but he also discovers who's behind all the tragedy and the horrendous murders that had happened all these years in the same house. The local priest believes this house is evil and he wants no part of it as he also believes everyone who dies in this house, their soul leaves their bodies, but their bodies never leave the house.
  - Written by Luis f Montalvo

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Thriller about a lonely boy and a vampire. With Chloe Grace Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee. Director: Matt Reeves (1:55). R: Violence, gore, language. At area theaters.

As countless tweens can attest, there's nothing scarier than a bully - not even a vampire. Director Matt Reeves (who also made the much rawer "Cloverfield") so deeply understands the nature of childhood terror that "Let Me In" burns with a white-hot clarity.

Reeves' take on Tomas Alfredson's acclaimed Swedish mystery "Let the Right One In" is less a remake than a translation. That makes his work even harder: He has to convince us that we need to hear the same story all over again.

Given the challenge, his success is remarkable. Though Reeves' script and direction are notably faithful to their source, he draws out new aspects by adding a slightly warmer perspective to 2008's effectively chilly original.

There's plenty of cold here, too. An unusually heavy snowfall blankets New Mexico in 1983, when 12-year-old Abby (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her eerie father (Richard Jenkins) move next door to lonely Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

Between his parents' ugly divorce and the boys who beat him up every afternoon, Owen's having a tough time. Abby's an outsider, too, but after centuries as a vampire, she's got a bit more perspective. She warns him that they shouldn't be friends; there are simply too many forces - including a nosy policeman (Elias Koteas) and her own blood lust - designed to keep them apart. But alienation proves a powerful bond, and they connect in ways that surprise them both.

Reeves allows us to share the elation of their love while never shying away from the horror of their reality. He gets the details right, from the unyielding steel of a middle-school locker to the heartbreaking distance of a disengaged parent. Even the setting - a generic corner of Ronald Reagan's America - is carefully chosen.

His actors are equally attuned to the delicate balance Reeves strives to attain: Moretz and Smit-McPhee beautifully embody both the deepest pain and small, vital joys of childhood. (Candy is Owen's savior whenever things get rough.) "Let Me In" is not only the year's most elegant thriller, but its loveliest romance as well.

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