Really, every other TV show and every 3rd movie is now about bloodsuckers. Vampire teens, vampire cops, vampire psychics, vampire social workers, vampire rock stars.....

We get it. Now let's plunge an oak stake in its heart.

Bring on the suck.

The big boom in vampire fiction started roughly around November of 1980...see also John Carpenter's "They Live!", roughly distorted away from L.R. Hubbard's "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", so you _know_ it's "kid-tested, Xenu-approved" as the old GIF peanut-butter commercial didn't used to say.

The explanation: the movie leaves out a lot from the book; a non-spoiler I can include, based on what I've heard of the movie, that in the book the older man acting as her "father" is pædophile.

Was bloody great. Sy Richardson, Keith David, Roddie Piper. "They Live" is what we live today. They live...you sleep.

O'Hehir writes:

"...in a dismal postwar housing complex outside Stockholm"

Hmm, what war would that be, Drew, the 30 Year's War or the War for Norwegian independence? Sweden wasn't involved directly in WWII, and certainly didn't have a lot of bombed out neighborhoods there from, so what's with the post-war architecture mentioned? I doubt they had a construction boom after the war, as there was no reason for it.

"postwar"

I have just seen this movie at a Chicago Film Festival - and I think that anyone who finds this movie heartwarming and touching is missing a major plot point. Which I don't want to spoil - but I think it's enough to say that there are *no* loose ends in this movie. The mysteries of why these two are drawn together, and who her traveling companion is are utterly, heartbreakingly clear. I loved this movie - don't get me wrong, but it has manipulation and heartbreak at its core - not love. Not even teenage love. Its symmetry made it all the more terrifying.

The Hollywood release is slated for 2010.