In Blackeberg, little Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) dreams of getting revenge on the three classmates who make fun of him. One night the quiet of the neighborhood where he lives is interrupted by the arrival of a man and a 12-year-old girl, who will bring suffering and death with them. Oskar will find in Eli (Lina Leandersson) a great friend, but he soon discovers that she is actually a vampire.
Inspired by the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist (who is also the film's screenwriter), it is a vampire story that features a decidedly distinctive female character, a sort of evolution of Le Fanu's Carmilla, asexual but in her own way erotic.
In Let me come in a boy who is no longer a child but not yet a teenager lives this phase of his life with a very strange friend, a classic symbol of the life-death or love-death pair.
The whole thing is very morbidly chaste and is told within a setting as evocative as the snowy landscapes of Sweden.
A slow, sometimes dreamlike film with parts that can be interpreted in more ways than one.
Some have glimpsed Fulcian images, some Argentinian. But perhaps there is more of the Soavi style Cemetery Man Without the grotesque elements.
Review by Zick
