Sitges 2008: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Wins Golden Melies Award

Posted by Todd Brown at 11:34am.

Posted in Film News , Drama, Horror, Continental Europe & Russia, Sitges 2008.

And the acclaim just keeps rolling in for Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In ...

Every year each of the affiliated festivals of the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals - there are about twenty in all - award what is known as the Silver Melies Award to the best European genre film to take part in each of their festivals. Those silver award winning films, in turn, become eligible to win a Golden Melies Award as the Best European Genre Film of the year. This year’s award ceremony has just wrapped up here in Sitges and out of a very strong field that included the likes of The Orphanage, Frontiere[s], King of the Hill, Inside, The Substitute and more, Let The Right One In has been selected as this year’s winner. Yes, it really is that good.

The film will be rolling out in US theatres in the very near future, check out the American trailer below the break.

Reader Comments

Airchinapilot 10/09/2008 @ 3:56pm

This movie rocked my socks off at the VIFF. You NEED to see it and spread the word before the remake starts stealing its buzz.
Ard Vijn 10/10/2008 @ 2:49am

I’m starting to become a bit worried of the way this movie is being hyped, even though I agree with every good word said about it.

When I saw it last January I didn’t know what to expect (duh, it was the world premiere) and every good thing about it pleasantly surprised me until I left the cinema elated. I’m dying to see it again to see if it holds up to my memories.

Now, had I been told this movie was brilliant in advance, I would have gone in expecting (or hoping) to be bowled over, which is not what this film sets out to do.

Rather, this is an intimate little film. You will be practically living on the skin of a few people who get drawn into a very weird situation, and it’s played completely real and straight.

At the end, you’re left with wonderful performances and a movie without a single false note. You know how different the opinions within our writers group can be, yet every single person here not only liked the film, but felt obliged to talk about it!

So don’t believe the hype, don’t expect to be knocked of your feet, just go see it expecting… a fun movie. Like a decent comedy, or a birthday party with old friends you haven’t seen in years. Be surprised, not by how utterly brilliant this movie is, but by how there is nothing wrong with it even though it keeps adding stuff.

It’s like when you have a bank account with a non-spectacular but non-changing interest rate where you keep adding monthly doses of money: you’ll be surprised at how much you’ll have accumulated at the end when the payoff arrives…