This vs Let the Right One In

No contest: LTROI all the way...

I just got my Blu-ray of A Girl Walks Home. Watched it straight through. As a strong fan of LTROI, I resisted comparing the two, and I recommend that approach. First, both Tomas Alfredson and John Ajvida Lindqvist are good story tellers. For both of them, the story comes first. I would say that Amirpour is first a trippy jokester, very creative, but I think A Girl Walks Home is a film looking for a story. The sort of conflicts that can make for a good story are tidied up pretty quickly -- the dealer, Arash's junkie father, the rich girl. Much that follows has the feeling of being a string of engaging vignettes, not all particularly necessary to move the story forward, but fun and sometimes touching to watch anyway.

So I didn't think of LTROI much while watching it. I compared the eyes of the vampires. The loneliness of the two vampires was parallel. Mmmm. That's about it.

That there was no story is underscored by the lack of an ending. I ask myself, what would it have mattered whether they blew town or just set up house where they were?

I thought one misfire was when the girl says she's done bad things. It's the sort of thing a girl might say when she is about to enter a serious relationship. I don't see the foundation for her feelings having got that far. Anyway, that may have been the point -- it may have been meant as a joke. Arash may have been thinking she was referring to a past involving sexual adventures, not a past involving a few thousand murders. Okay, now I'm laughing, but timing is everything. It was a misfire either way.

But from the spaghetti western lettering at the start straight through, the film is a hoot, which is why it gets 8 out of 10 from me.

Let The Right One In and its not even close.

Libera te tu temet ex inferis.
pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.

Let the Right One In. This is really good but more of a surreal film. I can't believe nobody is listing Byzantium in their list of newish really good Vampire films.

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They make for a good companion film to each other, but as much as I like A Girl..., LTROI touched me more.

1. Only Lovers Left Alive (8/10)
2. Let the Right One In (8/10)
3. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (7,5/10)
4. Let Me In (7/10)

1. A girl walks home alone at night
Loved everything about this, the photography, the classic/Western feel, the music, the drugs, the earring scene, the skateboard and of course the cat.

2. Let the right one in
I've only seen it in the original Sweidsh version ( I speak Swedish so...) and I found it quite boring. Maybe because I already knew the story from all the publicity. Maybe because I'm not that into most horror movies so that dimension didn't really do it for me. I didn't really care for the acting either.