Too Scary; Didn't Watch - LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

Vampires, absent parents, and a whole bunch of CGI cats - we're recapping Let the Right One In! Join us as we learn the proper way to deal with bullies. Streaming on Hulu. Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content! Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy. Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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We had a great time. Oh, it's so good. Listen, I don't want to like overhype it or anything, but like, dang, I loved it. Whoa, Henley. Whoa, Henley. You hate hype, Henley. Come on. It was so good.

Whoa, it's so good. Whoa is the one word that we would use to describe this episode. Whoa. Whoa. And you guys are going to love it. Here it is. Here you go. This is Emily, Penley, and Sammy.

And you're listening to Too Scary. Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those too scared to watch for themselves. I'm Emily, and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley, and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Sammy. I like scary movies and I like telling these two all about them and that's what we do here. That's what we're here to do. I can't wait to do it again this week with you guys. I fucking can't wait. Did we have a good week this week? How's everyone doing?

You know what? Pretty good week, I'd say. Pretty good week, I'd say. We got a new number one guy. Our new number one guy. We kicked the old one out, brought a new number one guy in. Wow, I just can't believe it happened. I just can't

believe it really happened. It went smoothly. Peaceful transition of power. Besides the Capitol protests or riots that happened before. Well, before. I mean, yeah, yeah. Since that. But I mean, I feel like I was so nervous leading up to the 20th that it was going to get worse

than that. The attempted coup. Yes. That would have been horrible. I was very nervous it was going to be a bad bad bad day turns out it was a pretty good day pretty good day all went according to plan as far as we know um no more violent attempted coups i like how on our text message chain there was a large or an extended discussion of the bulletproof glass and

why it wasn't extending all the way up. It did seem like it was pretty low. I stand by my statement that I do think it was low if you were eye level with him but nobody would eye level with him. Yeah. Everyone was below enough

that you'd have to have like boomeranged a bullet. Oh you know what I mean? They would have thought of that right'd have to have, like, boomeranged a bullet. Oh, you know what I mean? And that would have. I mean, they would have thought of that, right? They would have. I bet they would have thought of that. I feel like they probably knew what they were doing and I should trust them, I guess.

But it just made me a little nervous. Yeah. What was your guys' favorite part of the inauguration? What's her name? Amanda Gorman? Amanda Gorman. Oh, she was amazing she was amazing so good i re-watched that today actually and i found it even better upon a re-watch the poem that she recited the hill we climb the hill we climb i think is what it's called so good she was so stunning she recited. It was just like so I was enchanted

by the whole thing. What if I said my favorite part was Garth Brooks' performance? I couldn't believe how much I cried. I like, I think I just, it was like it wasn't even a particular moment. I think I just, I turned it on and I mean it was like, like I just like needed

the emotional release of all of it. But I i also think i watched so did you guys watch that um the like celebrating america you know there's usually an inaugural ball but they obviously didn't didn't do that this year and so they did this like tv special did you guys watch it no i didn't but i heard a little is it the thing katie perry performed katie perry performed i cried so i i like couldn't believe first of all i had the news on like all day which i haven't done except for the coup like in ages because it gets stresses me out and is so terrible and about halfway through the day i was struck by how not triggered i was by the new like right i didn't see his stupid face i didn't hear any bullshit it was just like i i could watch tv and and i'll be mad again for sure but it was so

nice and i and then i watched that special that night and i like couldn't believe how much my brain needed like a kind of lame sweet patriotic tv special like a thing i never watch anymore just like tom hanks talking about how america's great and and then katie perry sang firework and they shot off more fireworks than I think have ever been shot off in one location ever. Even more than in San Diego when they accidentally lit all of the fireworks at once. It was like that, but not on accident. It was. I was crying. Katy Perry started singing and I've never cried at that song, but I started crying because I was so happy.

And then the fireworks started going off and I started laughing and I was just sitting in my couch, crying, laughing, feeling like a true maniac. It's a great day. I had a great day. Yeah. Well, it was. Yeah. It's a return to a sense of normalcy. I feel like we'd all adjusted to hearing some outrageous thing happening every day. And we would just have to like adjust our thinking to be like okay well i guess this is just the world we live in now and so it's really such a relief to have an event happen that is just a normal day a normal event right yeah like normal angry at the government i was gonna say i am i want to like crawl into a hole. I'm excited to be able to talk shit on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris without it. Well, I guess since the election, I've been able to do.

It's like I don't like them. And we hadn't been able to say that for a while because it was like too important that they win. Yeah. And now I can say it. Now you can say it. Now you can say it. Oh, and also just in case any of our listeners are not familiar with the video that Sammy just referenced, everyone needs to look it up. It is an it's an accidental firework snafu that happened. I don't know how many years ago, but part of the reason the video is so funny like how i remember it anyway is that it's like everyone's prepared for the fireworks to go off the people who are filming are like

excited for it to happen and then all of the fireworks go off at once and i can't even it doesn't sound as funny as it actually is to see like on the screen it's hilarious and then to see everyone's reaction of being like wait what the fuck just happened because people like come out set out their blankets their picnics like wanting to see a nice long firework show it's literally over in 10 seconds and it's like not even nice to see because it's just insane like you can't even it's loud. I bet being there was probably like unbearably loud. Oh, but boy, was it a story to tell? I guess they won in the end.

They won in the end. And people remember that firework show. And I would recommend it if you've been looking at, I was really, I was like cackling at the amount of, it truly was as if they were just like I don't know man let's just give it all we've got like they're just so excited to have that's what made me cry too is just like that energy people just being like yeah we made it

you know there's still plenty of yeah normal normal reasons to be upset but man oh man less fascism we hope Less fascism, we hope. Less fascism, less fucking outright, like, literal stupidity. Just, like, very, very stupid.

I saw a thread, a Twitter thread, that was like, what are some, like, Trump presidency moments that we've maybe forgotten about that are very stupid? And our reply was, I forgot about it. And what's nice is now it's funny because now he's not the president. So it can be some of the stuff can be like re energized with with the humor that it has.

But when he gave that speech about the quid pro quo on the White House lawn and the so much extra of his notes and it's like all caps sharpie child writing that just says i want nothing i want nothing i want no quid pro quo like written out those are his notes man it made me laugh so hard yesterday because i saw wait there's a whole there's a whole compilation of these and there's so many good ones but one some of my favorite art is the photo of him squinting at the solar eclipse that's a really good one where he's just staring straight into the sun also when he like um promoted goya beans and there's that photo of him like doing two thumbs up with the goya beans like on the desk in the oval office it's like what is this um wait they're just so many examples oh yeah too many to count too many to count and and and he's awful and a lot of people are dead and in deplorable conditions

because of him and he's the worst. And we hate him forever, even though last week he was our number one guy. Our top guy. Our number one guy. It's funny because it needs to be funny because it's really too scary and sad. So I do, I understand that it could even still be triggering for lots of people to laugh at at it he's the worst um yeah yeah we still have lots of lots of problems that need to be solved and people can't you know say everything's fine now and no need to pay attention to politics anymore so i encourage everyone to stay involved and stay aware and hold politicians accountable. And hopefully this will be the beginning of a lot more positive change.

One good thing about Donald Trump is that he definitely got a lot of people activated and motivated. Thank God for our number one guy. Thank God. Back to Lebanon. Number one guy. He got people activated'm back to Lebanon. Number one guy. He got people activated on both sides, I will say. Yeah, that's true. But none...

Interesting point. Nonetheless, I do feel like our generation and the people younger than us are so involved in politics now in a way that they weren't before. So that is a good thing well a great week a great week made even better by the movie i watched last night i'm so excited

to hear about this one sammy i'm really excited to tell you about it this week's movie is let the right one in came out in 2008 directed by thomas alfredson written by john avida lindquist starring oh boy uh cora head head of brunt lena leanderson and per ragnar swedish film so these are some swedish names i did i did my best i thought you did great thank you some Swedish names. I did my best. I thought you did great. Thank you. And I saw it, I think, in 2008 when it came out. And I think I've even seen it again, saw it again a couple years after that. But it's probably been about 10 years since I had seen it. And if anyone out there, like, you know that you've seen it and you know that it's good. See it again. It's so fucking good. I was so excited to rewatch. I mean, I wasn't as excited to rewatch it.

But once I was watching it, I was like, holy shit, this is even better than I remember. And I had a great time. It's streaming on Hulu. It's so fucking good. I love it. I'm so excited. This has been one that I've heard the title so many times in my life. I

think it's about vampires? Is it about vampires? I don't know. But clearly it's as much as I know. It's very good. That's what it's called. And it's maybe about vampires. And I'm so excited to have finally, I finally get to know

what it is. Yeah. Henley, what about you? What do you know about this movie other than those three things? Just those three things. I know absolutely nothing except for. It's going to be fun. Yeah. Did you think it was vampires? I didn't think it was even vampires. I feel like I feel like it has. And I could be totally wrong or misremembering. But does it have to do with like a little girl? Mm hmm. Is that OK? All right. I feel like I've heard you talk about it beforeembering, but does it have to do with like a little girl? Mm hmm. Is that OK? All right.

I feel like I've heard you talk about it before, Sammy, but not in detail. And I don't remember anything else besides besides that. So we're Emily and I are going into this blind, just like how we like like to do these things, just like how we like to do it. Mm hmm. Oh, it's going to be fun. This is going to be fun. Welcome to Cocktail Hour, the best part of every week or day. We're not judging. This week's drink

is the Cold Blooded. For this drink, you will need one fresh rosemary sprig, one and a half ounces of Grand Marnier, two ounces of cranberry juice, half an ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, and a half an ounce of simple syrup. You will muddle the rosemary in the base of your shaker, add the other ingredients, shake with ice, and fine strain into an ice-filled glass. So if you are of age or a centuries-old vampire in a child's body, this drink is for you. Cheers! Okay, I have some trivia. One is that several tricks were used to create the right sound effects

for some of the gorier scenes. Biting into sausages was used to replicate biting into skin and flesh, and drinking yogurt was used to sound like drinking blood. to replicate biting into skin and flesh and drinking yogurt was used to sound like drinking blood. The sound of the children blinking was made by the skin of grapes rubbing together.

Whoa! That's why I wrote this down. How often do we hear blinks? I didn't remember hearing it at all and when I went back through today to take notes, I did notice, I think, what they're referring to. I want to rub some grapes together and see what that sounds like. hearing it at all and when i went back through today to take notes i did notice i think what they're referring to i want to rub some grapes together and see what that sounds like i feel

like also rubbing grapes together is not well you would you'd be you'd be smacking little grapes together like your little eyelids oh boy so this sounds like some vampire shit to me. It's some vampire shit. But I will say both John Evita Lindquist and Thomas Alfredson are. So it's based on a book by John Evita Lindquist, and he adapted it into a screenplay. And both of them have admitted they don't like vampires. They don't care for vampires.

And like on a personal level. I guess so. I don't like vampires they don't care for vampires and like on a personal level or i guess so i don't know they're just like both this is i guess out of character for both of them and alfredson particularly like didn't watch any horror films to prepare he's not a horror director he usually does comedy and stage productions. And he didn't want to see any other horror films because he didn't want to be influenced by any, which I think is part of probably what makes this movie so good is because it feels very unconventional, I guess. So not too many of our bingos are going to be crossed off? Not too many of the bingos. It is pretty wild to write both a book and then a movie on a subject and be like, I don't really like it.

Yeah. It's not for me. I wonder. Wait, when did this movie come out again? 2008. That's kind of at the very beginning of the Twilight. Vampire certainly went through a little rebrand in the twilight days so part of me is wondering if they're like don't want to be associated with the twilight uh genre of vampire

why would you not want to be it's crazy to me i mean crazy to me i don't know why they wouldn't want that but that could be it could be the film follow it's two kids basically that are the leads a boy and a girl and it took them almost a year of casting to find the two leads because he felt it was so important that they find the exact right to kids because they have to

carry the whole film on their shoulders and that's what they kept saying that's what they kept saying let the right one in. Let this be the right one this time. Let them in. Can you let the right one in? Just the right ones. That's it.

So after a year, he finally found them and they were never allowed to read the full script. He would kind of read their lines to them while they were filming. How old are these kids? They were 12. They're both great in it.

Did this movie do well? Was it successful? It was, you know, I don't have our favorite numbers. I don't have a budget and a gross, but it's super well reviewed. I mean, and it was on something like Empire named it like the best movie of the year. Like it was very critically adored. And so I'm sure that it did do well, but I don't know exactly how well. But there is an American remake called Let Me In starring Chloe Grace Moretz. And even the American remake is actually pretty well reviewed and i have seen that as well i don't really remember it i remember there's one like car crash scene that really

stuck with me it's really cool really well done but thomas alfredson the director of the original was like really not pleased that they remade it and was like, why can't people just watch this version? Like, this one is good. Honestly, fair point. It is a fair point. They asked him to direct the English language remake and he said no. He said, nope, this one is good.

I made the movie I wanted to make. This one is good. Opposite of Michael Haneke. I made one that's good. So are you allowed to remake someone's movie without their permission i guess yes i don't i don't know the the legal i'm not sure i mean yeah they did i think he must maybe he gave permission at some point but it's based on a book and so i feel like at least john avidi linkfist would

have had to give permission because that whoever owns whoever owns the original right yeah okay yeah so anyone else who doesn't own it doesn't get a say in that process but yeah i think this version is the better version i think thomas alfredson is correct that if you can only watch one, watch this one. And that's all I got. So the trailer, because it's

a foreign film, it doesn't really give anything away. So I think we should watch it. Let's watch it. Let's watch it. Let's watch it. I'm sorry. yeah yeah yeah yeah okay it looks like it's be sad. And I'm worried about feeling sad about these two children. They could have a happy ending. Yeah. I'm so glad you brought up the sound effects portion because, man, I could really imagine someone drinking yogurt halfway through that trailer. You could hear them biting into sausage, drinking yogurt.

We didn't get a lot of blinking in the trailer, so no rubbing grapes together. No rubbing grapes together, but we can imagine. Oh, it looks like kind of cute. It's categorized as, yeah, like a romance horror. That's fascinating. Also, as soon as it started, I was like, oh, man, what's up with vampires and it being very cold? That's a thing. Yeah.

What was the Josh Hartnett movie we did? 20, 30 Days of Night. 30 Days of Night. Yeah. Cold, cold. And I guess because it's dark so much, which is dark. Cold blooded. Cold blooded.

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buyraycon.com slash too scary. So, we start. We are in Sweden in 1982. The year's not super relevant, but that's what year it is. Great. We meet a little blonde boy with some very funny little bangs.

We were actually talking recently about Ana de Armas' bangs, and they're the kind of bangs that make you want to cut bangs. Like, sometimes you just see someone that looks so good with bangs and you're like yeah fuck do i need bangs these bangs are not like these are not those bangs these are little boy bangs little little bowl cut bangs type thing little boy bangs oh but he's super cute. But he's in his room and they live in kind of an apartment complex looking thing. His bedroom window overlooks a courtyard. It's snowing. And he's saying, squeal like a pig, squeal, squeal like a pig squeal squeal and we see that he has a knife and he's kind of practicing looking badass i guess he puts his little knife away and tucks it under his bed like he's just doing on doing a little practice stabbing practicing looking threatening okay he notices a taxi coming in with some people moving in uh it's a man and a young girl and they are moving into the apartment next door to his and uh they come in and we see the man immediately board the windows up with cardboard.

He covers all the windows. Spooky. I mean, that's how you know it's a vampire. That's how you know. Yeah. That's how you know. That's the first sign. The next morning at school.

Oh, so our main kid's name, the little boy's name is Oscar. And at school the next day, we see that he is being bullied. A little shitty kid comes up to him, flicks his nose and then presses his nose and is making little oinking sounds, calling him Piggy. Says, you're a good little piggy, aren't you? And just being an asshole. This little kid's name is Connie. There's three bullies. Connie is like the lead bully and

he has two little cronies that kind of just like, yeah, in the background, but don't look as into being bullies. Wow. I hate bullies. I hate them so much. I just want to say, I just want to say that for the record. And also like bullies in horror movies are particularly scary. There's something particularly horrifying about a bully in a horror movie. I don't know why. to say that for the record and also like bullies and horror movies are particularly scary there's something particularly horrifying about a bully in a horror movie i don't know why i guess it's like so scary to the record i also hate bullies yeah emily i just want to go on the record i don't know whether you felt the same or not yeah i would like to go on i would like to go on record as not not liking bullies I'm going to keep my stance private.

Okay. Okay. Oh, interesting. Okay. You know what that means. You guys can draw your own conclusions. Show us your bully tax returns. Then we cut back to the man that has moved in next door.

It's like, it seems like it's maybe her father. That's what you would assume, a adult man and a little girl. And we see that he is packing up a suitcase with some really not good looking stuff, like some bottles of liquid, some ventilator things, some knives, a funnel. I don't know what to make of this assortment. And he goes outside. It's nighttime again that evening. We kind of get the sense that, you know, it's like it gets dark pretty early, I think, because it's dark a lot. Pretty much right after school.

Mm-hmm. The boy says, oh, I don't have a watch. What is that that you're carrying? And he says, oh, this. This is I can't remember the name of it. The like chemical that the liquid is and it's attached to a ventilator and he presses it against the guy's face, holds it on him, holds him down until he's unconscious and then takes him into kind of the middle of the woods. And then takes him into and slits his throat so that his blood is collected into this funnel. So he's filling up a jug with his blood. Okay, now the packets, it makes sense. He packed well. Yeah, he packed for what he needed to do.

Exactly what he needed. He packed the essentials, the essentials. You don't often see a vampire make the most of the kill. You know, I like the strategic like if you just kill someone and just drink from their neck and walk away, you're not getting everything out of that

body. He's definitely yeah, he's definitely using the whole buffalo. He's using the whole buffalo. And also maybe this blood isn't for himself i was gonna say we're not sure that he's a vampire yeah but also like wouldn't it be easier to just get whatever doctors use to draw blood and do it that way instead of this feels like a lot of work i feel like we're gonna

do this you might as well just steal some doctor supplies and and the way that this turns out that's a great question because it doesn't go well so immediately uh a dog starts barking that is out on a walk off leash and starts running up to him you hear the owner is saying ricky ricky come back here the dog just runs right up to this man and his dead body hanging from the tree he's sniffing around he's like licking at the blood and the guy like is pushing him away being like no no get out of here get out of here the dog won't leave and he sees that the owners are coming closer and he just panics he grabs his suitcase he leaves the blood and leaves the man and just runs. Okay.

So, doesn't go according to plan. All for naught. Yeah. Then back at the apartment building, we see Oscar is taking his knife outside into this little courtyard. There's a little playground type thing, like a little

metal bars, jungle gym type thing. And there's a little playground type thing a little metal bars jungle gym type thing and there's a telephone pole and he's he's basically facing the telephone pole again saying like what are you looking at like squeal pig squeal and he's got his knife out and he starts stabbing the telephone pole practicing his stabbing again We now know that he has a bully. So that's what he is doing. He's trying to be trying to be imagine what it would be like to stand up to his bully. And as he's doing that, he senses somebody behind him and he turns around and we see that there is a little girl standing on the top of the jungle gym and she's in like a T-shirt.

It's nighttime in like thick snow in northern Sweden. And she's in just like a T-shirt and pants. And she hops down and says, like, what are you doing? And he's like, nothing. What are you doing? And he's like, nothing. What are you doing? She's like, nothing. And they just, like, immediately have a very cute little dynamic. And she says, just so you know, I can't be your friend.

And he's like, what makes you think I want you to be your friend? I want you to be my friend. And she's like, okay, whatever. And she, like, leaves, whatever. And she leaves and goes inside. Cute. Back inside, we follow the girl inside. And the man comes home. His name is Håkan.

And I'm sure I'm not pronouncing that correctly. Håkan? The A I looked up, the A with a little circle around it is pronounced or or so it's something like that phoenix maybe it's what it is that's what it is he comes home and empty-handed and obviously has botched his job and she starts screaming at him, like, you're no good to me if you can't do this one thing. Do I have to do everything myself?

Am I really going to have to go? Like, she's just screaming at him. He is silent, head down, and he just says, forgive me, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Oh, wow. I can only picture Guillermo from what we do in the show. He is not like Guillermo. Okay.

He's a lot creepier than Guillermo. Okay. Next day at school, Oscar's teacher is basically saying that, you know, someone at their school has been murdered. And she knows that's scary. And the counselor is here. If any of you need to talk about it, like, please don't hang around at school. If you don't need to, make sure you go home right after. That kind of thing.

And then we cut to what seems to be kind of like a neighborhood diner there's a group of people that live in the same building as oscar and they're you know getting a little drunk all sitting at a table together it's mostly guys one woman and they spot hooking i'm gonna call him a hug gun i don't know what i'll call him oh god i'll keep you guessing all of them will work they're interchangeable i'm i really am liking whatever whatever you're doing i'm liking it same any swedish listeners out there send us a phonetic pronunciation of this name please uh they they spot him sitting by himself drinking a tall glass of milk which is so creepy i feel like it's such a good um i don't know way to just make this guy seem not normal. I definitely would find that alarming.

Some clockwork orange type shit. So he's sitting alone drinking his glass of milk. They are talking amongst themselves saying like, should we invite him over here? He just moved in with his daughter, I think, to our building. Maybe he'll buy us around if we like invite him over to be friends with us.

Yeah, milk guy he seems cool so one of the kind of the the main neighbor guy his name is lecker oh god l-e-c-k-e lecker lecker he goes over to the table with hakkan and invites him over hakkan is very doesn't even engage really and he's like no sorry i'm in a hurry i gotta go pay stands up leaves they're like okay whatever that guy sucks and then back at the apartment building oscar is outside in the courtyard um playing with a rubik's cube and the girl comes out again and we kind of see her coming from over his shoulder and we see him smile as he like hears her coming like we can see that he's excited that he has a new little friend

oh cute and she goes and sits next to him. She's looking kind of sickly. She's pale and her eyes are kind of sunken in a bit, dark circles under her eyes. But she comes and sits next to him and sees the Rubik's Cube, says, what's that? He kind of shows her how to use it. He says, you can borrow it if you want and just give it back to me tomorrow. And she's like, well, I might not be here tomorrow.

And he's like, well, the next day, but that's it. Cute. So he kind of shows her how to do it and gives it to her. And then tells her, she,

he says, you, you smell funny. And she kind of like looks like she's herself a bit and then he says aren't you cold seeing that she's in a t-shirt outside in the snow at nighttime and she says no he says why not and she's like i think i forgot how to be cold and he's like all right well like i'll see you later he gets up and he leaves. And after he's leaving, she's holding the Rubik's Cube in her hands and her stomach starts really rumbling.

She is hungry. Fucking fucked up her meal. Fucking fucked it up. Her eyes get really big. And this is something that I didn't remember at all from my previous time seeing this movie that I just didn't appreciate these little details. There's actually a good amount of CGI in this movie, but they just do tiny little things like they make her eyes like 5% bigger, like her whole not like her pupil, like her entire eyes on her face. That's cool. And it's super unsettling because you can't quite tell what's different,

but she just looks different all of a sudden. Ooh, that's cool. Yeah, it's really effective. And so her eyes are getting bigger. We see one of the neighbor guys leave the diner, walking home by himself back to the apartment building and he has to walk under this bridge and the little girl is crouched in the in the dark shadow under the bridge and is

just saying help me help me and he's you can tell he's kind of drunk and he's like what like who's there and sees that it's a little girl and is like are you okay can you walk and like where are you do you live in the building can i take you home and she's like help me yeah yeah i can't walk and so he scoops her up like a little baby oh no and she attacks him and takes him out real quick. She's super strong, and just immediately, he is on the ground, not moving. And we see her get up. Her shirt is now drenched in blood. Her mouth and shirt are drenched in blood. He is lifeless on the ground, but she reaches down down grabs his head snaps his neck his little body flinches then we see that a another neighbor from inside has witnessed this was kind of looking outside and sees it oh no but this neighbor looks like he might be so like a kind of recluse. He has so many cats, a thousand cats.

And he looks terrified. Does she see him see her? No. Oh. We see that she goes back home and Haken is like screaming at her like, what were you thinking? Could have been caught. And then we see Catman leave his apartment and he seems really stressed to leave his apartment

and go to the diner and find the rest of that crew to tell them what he saw. And I can't remember the guy's name, but he basically can't speak. Catman can't speak. And he's just saying the guy's name and they're like, what, what? And he makes them follow him and takes

them to the spot that he saw it happen and the body is gone oh okay and it's covered in snow but they kind of dig through the snow and see that there is blood everywhere underneath and then we see huck and carrying the body on like towing it on a sled basically dragging it through the woods to a break in the ice where he throws the body in and it's into what into like a lake that's completely frozen over except for this one little spot. Basically takes a stick and like shoves it and pushes him like further under the ice so that he is hidden from view. I'm wondering what their relationship is. If Hawken is really related to her or not. Well, they don't get too into it in the movie, but

in the book, it is quite it's talked about a lot more, and I do know, but I'll tell you later. Tell us later. Tell us later. Tell us later. So then the next morning, Oscar goes out to the courtyard, little playground area,

and he finds the Rubik's Cube solved sitting on a little spot that they were sitting at. And he smiles. Cute. And he heads off to school and he's just holding the little Rubik's Cube in his hand all day at school. And we see him in class, like not really paying attention. He's just like turning around the Rubik's Cube like he's got a big crush and he can't stop thinking about her

very cute and then that night he's sitting out in the courtyard and she comes out she's looking much healthier she's uh and she she struts out and is like, do I still smell bad? And he's like, no, you smell fine. So we know that that must come from drinking blood. So I think the implication is she starts like rotting. Yeah, she starts like smelling like death. Yeah, I would presume that. Yeah.

Yuck. And then he asks her what her name is. And she says, your name is Ellie. And he says, how old are you? And she says, 12 more or less. And he says, what do you mean more or less? And she says, well, I don't actually know my birthday. And he's like, what do you mean? So you don't get presents?

Like, well, you can have that rubik's cube like that can be your present oh cute then the next day at school um as class finishes he stays in his seat as everyone leaves and you see the bully kid connie like slowly passing by him like mad that he's not leaving so he can't just bully him immediately. And we see that he stays to copy Morse code. He's got a book out that has Morse code and he's writing it onto a paper like the alphabet and Morse code. Folds it up, puts it in his pocket, waits a while to go outside. It's dark when he finally leaves the school.

It seems like maybe he's waiting for the bullies to leave. But he goes out. They're there. Oh, no. Bullies love to wait. They'll wait all day. They love to bully. What else they got going on? Mind you, there's been a murder

in this area. Yeah, but that's not scary to bullies. That's true. Bullies are the scary thing. Yeah, the murder better look out for them. Well, my stance on bullies remains unknown, but. Yeah, don't give yourself away, Sammy. Connie immediately is like, I saw you writing something.

What were you writing? And Oscar says, I'm not going to show you. He's like, of course you're going to show me. Like, are you show me or I'm going to make you show me. And he's like, no, I'm not going to show you. And then one of his little goons, he looks at him, gives him a little signal, like. Go get him, boys. signal like go rough get them boys rough them up and this kid pulls out like a long stick thing and starts basically whipping him in the ankles with this stick and you see oscar really flinch

and close like squeeze his eyes shut um but he doesn't make any sound and that makes them mad seemingly and they keep hitting him and hitting him and hitting him and in like the ankles with this stick he never makes a sound and eventually the kid stops and when he stops Connie grabs the stick from him and they kind of look like they're done. Connie is not done. The other two bullies are trying to tap out. Connie's like nope we're not done yet. Takes the stick, hits him across

the face, slices open his cheek and this moment is really what like it does that thing in movies where all the sound goes out and it's like your ear ringing and just really gives you chills and he still doesn't oscar still doesn't make a sound he just closes his eyes and then opens them and looks at connie right in the eyes like he's so mad and uh the other kids are like connie let's go like what

are you gonna tell his mom like we gotta get out of here they all run off and leave oscar there with his cheek bleeding then we see oscar at home his mom bandaging up his cheek and he says, I tripped and fell on rocks. And she's like, got to be more careful. We get the impression pretty early on that his parents are not. He lives with his mom. His parents are divorced and they're both not doing a great job. They're seemingly pretty absent and not super involved in his life. And which I think is different from the book, actually.

But anyway, so she's like, yeah, you got to be careful. Like, don't go tripping on rocks unless like not too concerned that he's obviously being bullied. Do you think she doesn't know or do you think she just doesn't care? I think she I think she doesn't know. OK. She she just doesn't care i think she i think she doesn't know okay because she's like not paying close enough attention to him right yeah like rocks i don't know how rocks would do that right a clear slice on your cheek like that yeah and that night he meets up with ellie again outside and starts teaching her morse code pulls out his his little piece of paper they share a wall they're right next to our neighbors so he's like we can talk to each

other through the wall he's teaching her how to do that and then she says what happened to your cheek and he says oh some some kids at school did it and she kind of gets serious and she says oscar you have to hit you have to hit them back like you've never hit them back have you and he says no there's there's three of them and she's like so hit them back really hard like hit them back harder than you even dare and then they'll stop and we see that hakkan is watching from the window and he doesn't look pleased and then they they go up to to their separate houses and they're gonna go practice their morse code and we see um the the adjoining wall is in hakkan's room and so she like storms in she's like get out of here you're in my way and like pushes him out of the way and closes the door in his face to like be able to do

her morse code and so they start practicing their morse code and then the next day at school oscar asks one of his like a gym teacher or something if he can join the weightlifting program oh my god and you see that the gym teacher is like surprised and impressed he's like yeah oscar yeah like that's that's a great idea like i think that'd be great um so he's got like a few little after school programs he's also seemingly on a swim team type thing. So he has a few little after school activities that he does. And now he's trying to bulk up. Oh, my God.

And that night he goes on a little date with Ellie. Like they go into the little town and he buys her some sort of snack, like a popcorn type thing. I don't know exactly what it is, but and he gives it to her like he's all excited to give her a little gift. And she's like, oh, no. And he seems a little hurt by it that she has turned down this gift. And she senses that. And so she's like, well, I could I could try it. I could try to have one. And she takes one out and puts it in her mouth.

And we cut to her like vomiting around the corner of the building, just throwing up. Is that that must be a thing from like vampire lore. Yeah. Yeah. They can't eat real things they can only drink blood it's just funny that it's like it's not just that like it doesn't do anything for them it make it just makes them sick which i don't i don't know why i find that maybe it's because again what we do in the show because of the what we do in the shadows episode is so funny

it's just so intense it's just it's funny to me that that's like, oh no, we just all agree that that's a thing about vampires. Yeah. Yep. And Oscar is standing kind of nearby watching her. She finishes throwing up and turns to him and says, I'm sorry. And he just walks up to her and gives her a big hug. Oh. wow.

This kid is so sweet. Really sweet. She says, Oscar, do you like me? And he says, yeah, I like you a lot. And she says, would you like me if I wasn't a girl? And he says, yeah, I guess so. Like, why do you ask? And she's like, no, no reason.

Then we see Oscar going to his dad's house for the weekend. Dad stuff isn't super important. You can see, I guess, just that he loves spending time with his dad. And it's very clear that his time with his dad is pretty limited. We got a weekend dad situation situation maybe even less than that and so they just have fun together and then he goes back to back to his mom's house so his dad isn't super present in his life either either. Back at the apartment building, we see Hakann packing up his creepy bag, his essentials, and he's heading out and he says something. He says something to Ellie. I can't totally remember. I think he says, promise me you won't see that boy tonight. So there's some jealousy or something happening and she touches his face kind of looking

pitying at him and he believes fascinating yeah you guys want me to tell you their relationship in the book i'll tell you he's a pedophile yeah yeah there we go that track that's starting to track they don't get into it in the movie but i mean that the vibe is certainly there like we get that it's not her father right so she uses him for like access to blood and he yeah gets to live with a child. Yeah. Yeah, I read some things that I did not like. That are in the book but not in the movie. The book sounds pretty fucked up. Yeah, it's just like a lot more graphic.

And the movie is not super graphic, I don't think. Well, thank God for that. Thank God for that, for our sakes, Emily. Yeah, I don't want more of those things. More Rubik's Cube gifts. Yeah, I want more of those.

What? The bullying was already too much for me. So we see Hakann watching the high school basketball practice. It's so creepy. He's basically just standing in the window staring at like looking so like if anyone saw him they'd be like

arrest that man like just the way he's standing is not okay the milk drinking i mean my god this guy arrested yeah we should have put this together as soon as we knew about the milk drinking emily yeah we cut to after basketball practice like a janitor going through the building turning all the lights off and we see that Hakan has been able to isolate one of the boys and he is tied up in a room the same way tied up his by his ankles laying like hanging upside down unconscious and Hakan's's in this like dexter-y coat, like a plastic raincoat thing. And he starts opening

up his suitcase and sets out a jar of liquid and gets out his knife. And we see two other boys outside saying like, what's taking him so long? Meaning the friend. And... Hakann is not good at this. Yeah, he's bad. He's just objectively bad at this. He's not good at it. This is his one job.

And one of them goes inside to look for their friend. One of them is outside. One of them pinpoints them pretty quickly from the outside through a window it's it's kind of that opaque window so that you can't totally see through but he can see that there's a light in there and he's like hey come on get out here he's like knocking on the window hakkan's like oh fuck hakkan kind of just like and then the other person uh figures out which room they're in is banging on the door so we've got someone banging on the window and someone banging on the door of this room where hakkan is in a raincoat with a boy unconscious hanging upside down then the boy starts waking up and is like help help what's happening help me help me and you see hakkan just like sit down like you know he's like there's no

way out of this one he uh the boy is kind of wiggling around and knocks over the jar of liquid. And it partially shatters. And some of the liquid pours out. And we see that it is some sort of acid. It's burning into the ground, smoking and burning. But part of it is still saved in the bottom of the jar hakan goes picks up the jar walks further into the room around a corner and kind of sits out of view and hears them like banging on the door bang they bang it open and he takes the liquid and says, Ellie, and pours it on his face.

Holy shit. Okay. Oh, my God. That is fucked up. Yeah. We see Ellie at home. Also, sorry, he had a knife. Why did he have to kill himself with acid to the face? It does seem like not the way to do it.

This dude is in a lot of emotional pain, I'm guessing. His one relationship is with a 12-year-old vampire. Fair, yeah. Yeah, I guess I don't respect all of his choices. He hasn't made the best

life decision so far. So, Ellie's all alone alone now and she's trying to do her morse code but i i think oscar's still at the dad's house so she's just alone in her room and then we see uh what must be like the following monday back at school oscar back at school back from his dad's house and he's lifting weights and he's got he's doing he's like bench pressing but it's like the tiniest little weights on the end and he's really struggling it's really cute and then after his weight lifting practice he goes back into the locker room and his pants have been stuffed into the urinal and are peed on and are dripping wet with pee.

And he like pulls it out and looks at it. And then it cuts to him walking home in the snow in his boxers and cowboy boots. Oh, that's, that's better than walking home in the piece. I know that's true. because I was nervous about that. Because they would freeze solid onto you, I feel like.

That would be awful. And then you'd stick to your skin. Yeah, that would be bad. Cowboy boots. I know. It's kind of a cute look. Boxers and cowboy boots. Very cute.

Makes me want cowboy boots. Yeah. Yeah, their styles, because they're like 80s Swedish styles. Fuck yeah. 80s Swedish 12- styles fuck yeah 80s swedish 12 year old styles could be our new vibe yes we all know it beautiful we all know it 2021 um ellie here's on the radio like a news report unidentified man admitted to this hospital after being caught attempting to murder someone. Oh, so he was trying to disfigure himself. Oh, but he's still alive.

That's so fucked up. I think he was trying to die and it didn't work. I don't know how that would kill you. I don't know. Unless you like drank some of it. I thought he was going to drink it. Yeah, that would kill you. Unless it was so intense that it like got into your he was going to drink it. Yeah, that would kill you. Unless it was so intense

that it like got into your brain. Right. Or something. Yeah. I mean, I certainly, if I pour acid on my head, I think I would accept the possibility that I would die. I would hope I would die because the alternative is a lot of pain. Yeah, I don't think that I would

you're trying to get out quick. That's not what you do. Yeah, you got a knife. You stab yourself. You've got a knife. You came there to use the knife. You know you have a knife. You know what? He doesn't make good decisions. He doesn't make good choices. He does not make good choices. So Ellie goes to the hospital, goes to the woman at the front

desk, says my dad is here. I heard on the news that he came in. You see that this nurse looks like so sad for this little girl and he's like oh my god poor thing she's like i'm sorry but you can't you can't go up there do you want me do you need me to call someone for you and ellie's like no that's okay thank you she's barefoot also walking through the snow barefoot and oh my god this this nurse then gets up and is like oh my god poor thing like i can't let her leave goes up to go out like follow her out of the lobby and she's just

gone and the nurse looks around can't see her she's like okay whatever go back in and then we see that she is actually hanging to the side of the building like frozen so you don't notice her until then she like starts climbing up to the seventh floor just like scaling the side of the building like frozen so you don't notice her until then she like starts climbing up to the seventh floor just like scaling the side of the building vampires are cool they are cool and she she makes it to the finds the window of uh hakans window knocks on the window he opens it we get a look at his face he looks like uh what's his name from batman two-faced yeah i just remembered when um heath ledger comes in in a in a disguise but it's so clearly heath ledger and two-faced like doesn't recognize him until he takes the disguise off and then he's like god it's so funny sorry my brain just automatically went there thinking about two-faced um but yeah he looks like two-faced like half of his face is completely

basically melted off to the bone you see his teeth and jaw and like eye socket oh. It looks very bad. He can't speak. She says, can I come in? And he motions to her that he can't speak. So he kind of sits halfway out of the window with her. And he unplugs his ventilator so that he will die and leans his neck to her. And she drinks his blood. And then he falls out of the window. Seven floors. And falls to the ground.

And you get one more look at him where he's still alive. And just kind of like his eyes moving around. It's a very creepy, scary shot. he's still alive and just kind of like his eyes moving around in his, Oh, it's a very creepy, scary shot. Um, Ellie looks, I guess,

sad, not like super sad, but she looks disappointed. I guess she was like, that was a convenient situation for me for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then we see the neighbor guy.

What is his name? Did I say his name already? Catman? Not Catman. Oh, Lekka. Lekka. Oh, okay. He's kind of the friend of the guy who died, who Lekka went to like, tell about it.

And we see that he is pretty, he's obsessing over his friend who's died, which like, yeah, you would. It's pretty fair. And he wakes up his girlfriend in the night. His girlfriend's name is Jania. And he's like, why would a kid, a kid did this? Because that's what cat guy told him.

It was a kid that did this. And he's like, what does this mean? Like a kid did this why because that's what um cat guy told him it was a kid that did this and he's like what like what does this mean like a kid did this and then we see ellie come and climb up to oscar's window is knocking on the window oscar's asleep in his bed he kind of is half asleep half awake she's like oscar oscar can i come in he's like what She's like, Oscar, Oscar, can I come in? He's like, what? She's like, you have to invite me in. And he's like, okay, you come, come in. And so she comes in. Right, right. Everything I know about vampires, I learned from what we do in the shadows. Gotta be invited in. She goes in and takes off her clothes because she is covered in blood.

And she says, don't look. Don't look at me. And climbs into bed next to him. And they're kind of spooning. And he says, like, you're freezing. Oh, my God, you're not wearing any clothes. And you're so cold. And she's like, is that gross?

And he's like, no, it's okay. Like, I don't mind. And he says, do you want to go steady? Okay. Oh, do you want to go steady? He said, do you want to go study? And I was like, what? Okay.

Steady. Steady. And she doesn't make as much sense. Steady. Steady. And she doesn't know what that means. And he says, do you want to be my girlfriend? And she says, but I'm not a girl. And he's like, you know what I mean? Like, do you want to be my girlfriend? Do you want to date me?

And she's like, can't things just stay the way that they are? And he was like, yeah, fine fine you can tell he's disappointed and kind of hurt and she senses that and she's like well like does anything change when you do you have to do anything special when you're going steady and he's like no and she's like so things could still be the same and he's like yeah and she's like okay then like let's go steady okay and he like smiles oh cute oh and they fall asleep and he wakes up in the morning and she is gone and he looks out the window doesn't know how she got out sees that she has left him a note, but we don't see it. We can't read it.

And then that day at school, there is some sort of ice skating field trip thing. And they're going out on the ice and Oscar kind of goes out. He finds like a little metal pole thing. He goes out kind of far by himself. But the teacher, the gym teacher is like watching, watching him pretty good. And then Connie and the bullies come up to him and they say, fancy going for a swim? Oh, because they've said like, out for in the hole in the ice and oscar's like no i don't like i'm not going swimming and connie says oh a brave little piggy

all of a sudden huh like yeah he's like here's what's gonna happen i'm gonna push you and you're not gonna do anything and oscar's like, that's not what's going to happen. And Connie sees the metal pole in his hand. He's like, what's that? Connie's like, what's that? And he's like,

this is what I'm going to hit you with. If you try anything. Nice. And then at this time, two little like younger girls go up to the gym teacher they tell him we have to pee and he says okay like go in the woods and they're like but it's like it's snowing he's like so who cares like go find a place and go pee like there's no bathrooms around here that's what you're gonna have to do and so these two little girls go off into the woods and then we go back to connie and he

he's like i'm gonna push you in the water like i don't know why you're so brave all of a sudden like we gotta set set something straight here like i'm i'm in charge here goes to go push um oscar oscar takes his metal pole and hits connie so hard in the temple i was like i was for sure connie was dead i've seen this movie before but i like couldn't remember but connie just like stops moving and like drops to his knees and the sound effect is bad like it sounds like it sounds like something really bad just happened and it did but he's not dead um but he connie starts screaming and crying and hold he's holding his ear and another teacher runs up runs up to him and we see his ear is like pouring blood and she goes and holds his ear he's screaming he's screaming and then we hear the

little girls start screaming somewhere else and while this is happening os Oscar's face is ecstatic. He closes his eyes and he's soaking it in. Oh my God. He looks on top of the world. And we see that the little girls are screaming because they have found the body that Hakann previously hid in the ice water and we see a truck coming to like lift this body out of the water

then there's like he goes back to his Oscar goes back to his swim practice that night he doesn't get his mom is mad like clearly the school has phoned but just is like mad at him and then lets it go pretty quickly i guess like is like whatever and the school doesn't like that's what suspend him

or anything no they don't suspend him and he just goes straight to his swim practice that night after bludgeoning a child with the metal pole maybe they're like we just let the kids work these things out themselves well my my mind was immediately like well tell them like because he still got a gash on his cheek be like well he did this to me yeah yeah maybe the school knows that connie's a bully yeah that's what i was kind of thinking but we don't see any of that we just see oscar so proud of himself strutting into his swim practice and we see one of the little like junior bullies kind of eyeing him like like in a in a way of like oh maybe i should just change my allegiances kind of going to hang out with oscar and oscar's kind of suspicious but it's like okay whatever like yeah if we're

gonna be friends okay fine um they don't like hang out or anything but they just have a little moment of like tipping their cap to each other and then um it's nighttime the swim practice goes into the night and ellie comes to meet him afterwards and he takes her into kind of a hidden room uh in the school and he's like no one's supposed to be in here but you know no one's gonna find us so whatever and we can still see that he's riding high on this and he's trying to like emergency room. And she says like, oh, like, bravo, good job. And he looks very pleased with himself. He goes and sits down in a little chair and she's kind of pacing around the room. And she's like, what did you want to do in here? He takes out his knife and slices his palm open.

And he's like, we're going to do a little blood packed thing. Obviously, she smells the blood. Her eyes get big again. That little CGI of her looking a little different. And she also makes kind of animal sounds, like little growls. She pulls back like she's restraining herself. She's like, what are you doing? And he says, it's no big deal.

It doesn't hurt. You do it too. And then we do press our hands together. She's like, no, no, no, we can't, you can't do that. And he's holding his hand, his palm out to her and it's dripping blood onto the ground. And she's like looking at him, looking at the blood on the ground, looking at him, like she's looking, um, like licking her lips basically. And eventually she lunges forward to the blood on the ground and starts licking it up like it's really creepy and weird and he like watches her do this and uh she looks up at him and she is an old woman oh my god and he looks scared and she says go get out of here and he runs out of the

room and uh that she turns back to a little girl right away but that was another thing that i didn't remember at all from my previous viewings was just these little flashes of her as like an old woman whoa but he he leaves he's freaked out and he, he goes home. Then we go back to the neighbors. They're gathered at cat guy's house. And they're basically saying like, you need to go tell the police,

like something's going on. You need to, you have a responsibility to like, say what you saw, file a police report. Cat guy's like, Oh, I don't want to like get involved.

I don't know. And Lekkacca says he says after whatever their other friend's name is after he died like i'm left with nothing i have nothing now he's sitting like right next to his girlfriend who like looks at him like annoyed she actually does she and she like quickly goes to comfort him she's like like, oh, Lekka, I'm sorry. It's okay. When clearly he's being an asshole. And he pushes her back and is like, don't, oh, Lekka me. I'm going through a really hard time right now. I don't need your shit too. And she's being nothing but sweet and trying to comfort him so she finally gets upset stands up goes to walk out and he follows her and he's like oh genia come on like i didn't mean anything and she's walking ahead of him and we see um oh we've also seen that ellie like ran back home and climbed up a tree and she's like sitting in a tree out in the courtyard. And we see Ginia walking past that tree, Ellie jumping down on top of her, biting her, drinking her blood.

But Lekka is right there. Lekka runs up, kicks Ellie off and Ellie like stands there like she doesn't know what to do but then we hear the other two guys or the guys from the in the cat guy's house coming over and so she sees like she's going to be too outnumbered so she just runs she runs off and Jinia is still alive she's only been uh bitten and so then we see the next morning we're with ginia in her apartment and she's sleeping in her bed kind of bandaged up and a little beam of sunlight comes onto her bed onto her finger and it starts burning she pulls it back and wakes up She seems very disoriented, kind of jumps out of bed. She opens the blinds completely and screams, closes them instantly

and then goes into the bathroom. She peels off her bandage on her neck. We see the two puncture wounds and she takes the kind of gauze that's soaked with her own blood and is kind of smelling it and like licking her lips like she wants to like eat the gauze that has her blood on it oh boy oh and then we see that oscar is back at his dad's house his dad kind of has a friend over there getting drunk and not really paying attention to oscar and we see oscar pull out his note from ellie from earlier that we didn't read and it says i must be gone

and live or stay and die yours ellie and he's like reading it like it's a nice little love letter not a literal state statement of fact um that night jinnia goes to cat guy's house she's looking real wild like kind of stumbling she's not doing well she walks into cat guy's house and all of the cats start kind of growling and hissing and their fur standing on. And again, there's at least 20 cats in this house. There's so many. And they're all like, Ginny, how are you doing? Are you feeling OK? And Cat Guy notices something is up.

He grabs what I assume is his favorite cat and he runs outside. Cat Guy knows. Cat Guy's like, I'm not doing this. I can only say this one. No question. It's this one. cat and he runs outside and this is the scene that i didn't remember that i can't believe i don't remember all of the cats start attacking her they become like cgi cats they look really funny and they pile on her she is covered in 20 cats running down the hall screaming she falls down the stairs covered in cats biting her and clinging to her i can't believe i forgot it happened as i was watching this i was like how the fuck do i not remember this scene this is so crazy and it cuts to her being like rushed into a hospital screaming. She is handcuffed to the hospital bed.

Like people think she's maybe having a psychiatric episode or something. So she is rolled into a hospital screaming, screaming. Then back to Ellie and Oscar back at the apartment. Ellie has Oscar over at her house. And he says, are you a vampire and she says yes and he says are you dead she says no can't you tell like do i seem dead and he says how old are you and she says, I'm 12, but I've been 12 for a really long time. And he says, well, I have to go do some chore or something, like hand out newspapers. And she's like, what, for money?

And he's like, yeah, I got to have money. And she's like, well, I can give you money. I have money. And she goes and fishes out some bills, goes to hand them to him. And he's like, you stole this from the people that you killed? And she's like, yeah. And he gets like a little, I don't know,

freaked out, and he's like, I want to go home now. And so she's like, okay. And he goes back to his house, and then we cut back to Lekka visiting Jania in the hospital. His experience of her week. My child jumped on our tree in bitterness. And then.

It's not great. Telling a friend like yeah i gotta go see my girlfriend in the hospital she had this week i got attacked by so many cats stretch from being attacked by by 20 cats yeah that's a tough that's a tough week that's a tough week. That is a tough week. So she turns to him and says, I think that girl infected me with something. Like, I don't want to live anymore. She's, again, looking very unwell.

He doesn't know what to do. He's not a great boyfriend. Yeah, he already not a great boyfriend yeah he already wasn't doing great he already wasn't doing great he i mean he has to leave she he leaves her there to to sleep in the morning a nurse comes in to undo her handcuffs they're like you might be able to go home today like because she's calmed down quite a bit since they've brought her in. She's kind of, like, shifty-eyed looking around as they're undoing her handcuffs. They let one of her hands out. She kind of strokes the bed like she's planning something.

She grabs the nurse's wrist, and we think she's going to try try something but then she just says to the nurse can you open the blinds for me oh and the nurse is like yeah of course like no problem pulls open the blinds and she bursts into flames like huge flames it goes up to the ceiling the nurse is like doesn't know what the fuck to do. She's just screaming and on fire. Lekka is there. He is in like the waiting area and everyone just runs in like, what the fuck is happening? We see at school, Oscar is watching Connie.

Connie has like, um, like a bandage over his ear now. And like an older boy comes up to him and scares him. He turns around and he said, the older boy says, Oh, are you like blind and deaf now? Ha ha.

And then like shoves him to the ground. And we see Connie kind of acting like he's laughing along and like he's in on the joke, and we find out that this is his older brother, and his older brother is then like, give me the keys to the car. Like, I got to get in the car. And Connie's like, there's always a reason.

I mean, the bullies have always been bullied. That's what's tragic about a bully. They're bullied by someone else. It just passes on to the next person. It's what's tragic about a bully. They're bullied by someone else. It just passes on to the next person. It's true. It's a cyclical cycle. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. God, a horrible cycle. Yes. A horrible cycle. My stance on bullies. A horrible cyclical cycle. I'll never say my stance on bullies. It never cyclical i'll never say my stance on bullies it's cycles that you don't like i don't like cyclical cycles i'll tell you that

so yeah we see connie is being bullied by his older brother uh that night uh oscar's mom is gone she's i mean i think she's gone a lot but ellie comes over knocks on his door he opens it she's smiling they're smiling at each other boyfriend girlfriend now and he's kind of standing there she's standing there and then the moment passes and she's like wait you have to you have to invite me in and he says what if i don't and she's like well i don't i don't know you just have to and he like is being kind of an asshole about it and like reaches out and he like touches like is there some invisible barrier here that you can't walk through and he's like i don't see anything like seems like you should be able to just come in. And so she does.

She walks in and stands in the entryway for a while. And they're kind of looking at each other. And she kind of starts grimacing and shaking a bit. And he's watching her. And he's watching her. And we see from her back, blood starts like bleeding through her clothes on her back. Oh. And she's trembling.

And we see from her hairline, blood starts just coming out of her skin and dripping down her forehead. Blood starts coming out of her ears and her eyes and her nose and once he sees this he's like no no no you can come in you can come in you're invited in you're invited in and he hugs her and holds her and it stops but she's now like covered in blood in i think this is like the cover of the movie is this this look of hers she looks it's such great makeup i mean she looks badass she's just bleeding i know it's it's a real this is like the scene that i remembered the most um but so he hugs her he feels bad for being shitty um yeah i mean almost killing her and uh they go into his room they're sitting facing each other she says you know we're we're like each other like i'm like you and he says i'm not like you like what do you mean you kill people and she says you want to kill people like i i've

seen you like the very first thing i heard you said is like squeal, piggy squeal. And you stabbed the telephone pole with your knife like you want to kill. I know that you do. And he like reflects and he's like, yeah, yeah, I do. And she says, you want to kill for revenge. I kill because I have to. Then we cut to her coming out of the shower. She's like wrapped in a towel. She's washed off all of the blood. And he says, you can wear one of my mom's dresses and finds her a little dress to wear and she goes into the bathroom to change and he peeks in on her and glances in at her changing and looks at her crotch and it is stitched as if she was a boy and has been castrated. Whoa. It is just a scar of stitched. I'm saying too many descriptions about it. It's just one little flash. And we see that Oscar looks like scared and is like, and moves away.

And Ellie comes out in the dress and they don't talk about it ever again. And that's all we ever get of that. Wow. Okay. But I think in the book, it goes further into detail that she is a boy. And when she became a vampire, for some reason, she was castrated and now lives as a girl. And I don't know any further details than that it's interesting because she also like fully presents as a girl too but she does say a few times like i'm not a girl and you think she means right i'm a because i'm a vampire like i'm a monster also her name is spelled eli eli and

when she introduces herself as ellie they do say Ellie, but I think it is the Swedish pronunciation. But he kind of is like Ellie. Like, I think it is a boy's name. So there are a couple little clues. And a trivia is that her whole voice is another actress because they thought her voice was too girly. And they cast this girl because she was androgynous looking. And so there were efforts made to make her seem not super feminine. Whoa, so her entire voice is dubbed over by the American actress?

I read that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it's just like certain moments. Because there are times when she sounds different that I was thinking maybe it was just those moments. But that trivia was not even on IMDb, our trusty IMDb. I looked that up elsewhere. Yeah. If anyone has any more detail on that, because I mean, I think usually when it's dubbed, you can tell even if they're saying even if it's in the same language

like i feel like something always feels a little off and i don't feel that way at all in this so maybe they did an excellent job doing it is possible um or maybe it's only sparingly i'm I'm not sure. Wow. Okay. So then she goes home and Oscar's mom comes home, falls asleep. He sneaks into Ellie's house to sleep over there and wakes up in the morning. She's not next to him, but she has left a note saying, I'm in the bathroom. Please don't come in. I really like you a lot love ellie okay cute um so then we see leka looking angry his he's had a friend die now his girlfriend is dead and he storms to Ellie's house. I think he's pinpointed that this is the kid that is in question

because I think the cat man saw her and she lives in the building and goes out at night time. So he knows that this is her. He storms in. He's kind of ransacking the house, looking for her. We see that Oscar is crouched under a table hiding

and leka finds that the bathroom is locked fishes a knife out of a drawer and goes and uses it to pry open the bathroom door uh the bathtub has car like a cardboard board over it. He pulls that up and there's just layers and layers of blankets bundled up. There's also, you know, the window is papered over. So it's dark in there. Because this is daytime right now. Yeah. Okay. And he pulls back all the layers of blankets and eventually finds Ellie sleeping and takes

his knife. And we see that Oscar is tiptoeing up behind him with his knife. And he's looking like he's maybe about to stab look leka and then leka is like i can't see anything it's so dark in here goes to peel off the coverings on the window and oscar screams no and that wakes up ellie who then lunges at Lekka. And that kind of like closes the door and like knocks Oscar out of the room. And we just hear screaming and yogurt drinking. Yogurt drinking.

Sausage drinking. Yogurt drinking. And eventually we... probably some grapes rubbing probably and eventually we see leka's hand like reaching out of the doorframe and then collapsing lifeless and she comes out of the bathroom hugs ellie i mean hugs oscar and says thank you and they're they're holding each other and then she says oscar i have i have to go away now like we think probably too many people have died this is getting suspicious we know vampires they live They got to be on the on the move all the time. Avoid suspicion.

And she gives him a kiss. They have their first kiss and he looks very pleased. But her mouth is covered in blood. And so he pulls back and now his mouth is covered in blood and so he pulls back and now his mouth is covered in blood but he still looks pretty happy well he looks happy and sad because she's leaving um goes home his mom is like screaming at him because he spent the night out and she didn't know where he was she was worried and he's like not paying attention he's like basically like floating past her closes the door in his face he's like not paying attention. He's like basically like floating past her, closes the door in his face.

He's like, not now, mom. I just had a kiss. Goes in his room and sees a taxi come up. And we see Ellie leaving in the taxi. He watches her go. He is sad. And then the next morning, the phone rings. And it's one of the junior bullies.

And he says, hey, Mr. Aviles wants to know if you're coming to swim practice tonight. And I just wanted you to know. This is the one that they had like a little tip into the hat moment to each other he's like and i just wanted you to know that like um i think what you did to connie was really good and i think like he deserved it and oscar's like oh do you mean it and he's like yeah and it would be like, I hope you come tonight. Like, it would be fun to see you or whatever. I don't know. And but then we see that he is with Connie and Connie's older brother and the other bully junior. And they're kind of giggling.

They're like, what an actor. Like, you did such a good job. And they go into swim practice. such a good job. And they go into swim practice. Oscar shows up, goes and gets changed into his swim outfit. And as he's walking into the pool area, sees the guy that called him, who is super suspicious. And he's like, hi, Oscar. I'm glad you came. And Oscar feels like, game and oscar is like feels like okay that's kind of weird then we see we see connie and his older brother outside starting a fire they're like pouring gasoline on something and then back inside we see oscar in the pool and mr revilis or whatever his name is doing like um like showing him different strokes or whatever what to

do and he's like do this Oscar do this and they're doing their lesson and then uh one of the boys runs into Mr. Aviles and like whispers in his ear or something and we hear him be like what oh no and see that there's the fire outside it's like it contained like they lit basically like a trash can on fire and so the teacher runs out and is like call the fire department call the fire outside. It's like it contained like they lit basically like a trash can on fire. And so the teacher runs out and is like, call the fire department, call the fire department. So now there's no adults in the pool area. I hate this. It's bad. I just want there to be a happy ending.

Why couldn't it have just ended like five minutes ago? We'll see what happens. Okay, let's just get through it. Let's get through it. And so the older brother, Connie and his older brother and the two other bullies come in and Connie's older brother,

he's probably like 17 and makes all the other kids in the room leave. He's like, get out of here, scram everybody out, clears the whole pool area. So it's just get out of here. Scram everybody out. Clears the whole pool area. So it's just the five of them. Oscar is basically treading water near the side of the pool

and he's like, come here, Oscar. Come here. And Oscar swims up to the side of the pool to hold on and Connie's older brother pulls out a little switchblade and says, we're gonna to play a little game. You're going to hold your breath underwater for as long as you can.

And if you can hold it for three minutes, I'll only nick you. But if you can't hold it for three minutes, I'm going to take out one of your eyes. And he says, an eye for an ear seems pretty fair to me oh no oh my god that is fucked up i hate this and so he grabs oscar by the hair dunks him under or he's like take a take a big breath oh because oscar first is like that's three minutes it's not that's not possible and he's like well you better take a big breath and os Oscar goes, he dunks him under and we get like a shot underwater of Oscar kind of struggling a bit. We see the second hand on the clock ticking like a minute passes. We see the three younger kids starting to get nervous and they're like, OK okay, like, that's probably not like, just like, let's get out of here.

They're all kind of losing their nerve and feeling guilty about this. And then we see Oscar starting to struggle and trying to come up for air. And the older brother's not letting him up. And in this underwater shot, we see Oscar sort of stopping struggling, kind of maybe starting to lose consciousness. And then we hear screaming. But like, oh, yeah, screaming like all this sound design is like from underwater. So you can't totally hear. And then you see something like splash in the water in front of Oscar's face and you can't totally hear. And then you see something like. Splash in the water in front of Oscar's face.

And you can't see. And then you see two feet. Like in the water from below. Being dragged across the surface. Like just these feet. Flying through the water. Like he is being pulled through the water. And then. A head falls into the water.

Just a head. into the water just a head oh my god the hand that is holding oscar's head down falls off and the arm is severed and oh my god oh my god and then we see a little girl's hand reach down and pull oscar up and and Oscar's eyes slowly open and it's super super close-ups of both of their faces and we just see Ellie and Oscar Ellie covered in blood and Oscar like registers that it's her and he just smiles and she smiles and then they are gone and we pan out and see the scene of the crime and one of the kids is still alive just in the corner crying the other three are literally torn apart like limb from limb draped like in and out of the pool like splayed all over the whole fucking pool area is crazy it's so crazy and then um it goes to black and for a while and we think that's the end of the movie

and then it fades back up onto a train and little oscar is in a little train car and he has a human-sized wooden box next to him and he starts doing some little morse code on it and some little morse code comes back and he smiles and looks out of the window and that's the end of the movie oh my god so they run away together it's a happy ending after all it is a happy ending it is a happy ending I fucking love it

yeah that's how you defeat a bully is you just get your vampire friend to rip them limb to limb that's what you've gotta do oh it's so good it's like one of those movies that I knew it was good, but I've seen it twice. And it's a movie that I think I would not have watched again if we hadn't had this podcast. And I was just like, so happy to watch it again.

It was so good. I love it. You know what's interesting about it is that the the vampire portion is like the least scary part of the film the parts that are the scariest to me anyway were when he poured acid all over his face and then all the bullying at the end especially i would say it's not a super scary film as far as like traditional horror scares go definitely yeah the

I think with all horror always the scariest thing is the more real life aspects of it but I mean it's not this isn't jump scary there's some a little bit of gore but not a ton like the tearing limb from yeah that part part yeah head in the pool

that part but i'd say overall it's not it's not a double black diamond is what i'm trying to say yes i get i get that sense for sure and it's really sweet the relationship they have is really really sweet do you think that he's gonna get turned into a vampire well there is a there is a sequel book that does continue on with them i'm not sure what happens but maybe i hope so that could be fun to 12 year old vampires in love why not yeah i loved it i really liked this one is a good one. I'm glad we did it. Me too. Thanks, Sammy. Wow. My goodness. My pleasure. And I, yeah, I definitely don't need to see Chloe Grace Moretz do an American version of this.

Yeah, I don't need that. Yeah, why mess with a good thing? It feels unnecessary. I kind of thought, I kind of thought that the movie was going to be about her accidentally turning a bunch of people into vampires and them coming after her or something like that um that's fun just because of the let the right one in i felt like there was going to be some kind of vampire against vampire situation yeah maybe in the next one um how do we feel about our ability to do Swedish accents? Horrible. I mean, I can try.

I feel like maybe. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. If we were to say goodbye in the, oh my God, Jesus Christ. From all of us here. I feel pretty good. From all of us. From all of us. I can't good from all of us from all of us

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