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3 out of 5 stars


the creepy swedish film about a little girl vampire gets re-done by the director of cloverfield and the main character is played by none other than chloe grace moretz AKA hit-girl from kickass! surprisingly well done in the style of the original, and well acted by both the bullied little boy and the vamp little girl... ;)

the story of the movie is essentially the same as the swedish version. (that’s probably because the sweds set a pretty good precedent with their version) read my blog post on the plot, if interested... matt reeves starts off differently though from the sweds by showing us the middle of the original story, where with an ambulance rushing a badly burnt car accident victim to the los alamos, NM general hospital. this burn victim is a john doe, and a detective tries to question him while he’s trying to breath on a respirator. the detective gets a phone call from the nurse’s station on the first floor of the hospital, and in that instance, the burn victim “appears” to have committed suicide after writing a short note on a pad: “i’m sorry, abby.” so, who is abby? and why did this guy die for her? i guess the question soon becomes WHAT is abby? hint: she needs blood to live, is immortal, and has super-human strength... ;)

the little boy who plays the bullied kid owen does a fantastic job! abby is also superb, but so is richard jenkins who plays abby’s guardian AKA the burn victim... i think this one was well adapted for an american audience, and matt reeves did a good job relocating the original small swedish town to los alamos. the relationship between owen and abby is really innocent and sweet, and of course, the true relationship between abby and her guardian is just disturbing... i still think that the original storyline AKA the book hasn’t been well adapted yet, thus my rating of this adaptation is the same as the swedish version. i mean, how did abby become a vampire? what’s her back story? questions apparently the book answered well. well, include them in the storyline, dammit! :P