We, The Infected

I didn't want to know what I now knew Abby needed from Owen, and in effect needed from me as well...And so here I sit, as Owen sits, trying to reconcile what it is that I have done to Abby, for Abby, and to myself. She needed it from me as well. I'm still sitting here, years later, "trying to recon...

Vampire autobahn, that's awesome! Since the movie makers perhaps pay less attention to detail than we do, maybe we can also take a bit of artistic license and pretend Los Alamos has a bustling Amtrak station.

An awe-inspiring list! Thanks for putting it together. My list was more restrictive because I was after those moments when she "felt" alone, meaning her guard was down or she was just being herself. That's why, for example, I did not include when the detective came to her door. Certainly she is alon...

Since the level of intelligence and education in this forum is generally much higher, much further-reaching, much deeper and much better informed by what I'll term very simply "social graces", people who are impacted by this public warning should already know who they are, and what will probably ha...

This article does not discuss hatred of remakes because they are lousy movies, but rather hatred of remakes because they are remakes. Most remakes are mediocre at best, of course, because all movies are mediocre at best. Some viewers, however, exhibit a priori hatred of all remakes, regardless of wh...

To return to the topic of the original post, one possibility is that Abby has some backstory that makes getting naked especially meaningful to her. In 1887 Abby's friend Constance tries (and fails, as usual) to get Abby to take off her clothes: Abby received a lot of strange looks as she carried Con...

One thing I like about LMI is how little dialogue there is. No excruciating exposition (contra Twilight). Rather LMI takes advantage of film's ability to show instead of tell. The movie shows Abby's non-verbal communication, then lets the viewer reach his own conclusions about her. This makes the mo...

The use of deleted scenes in interpreting a movie has intrigued me since I first watched LMI. (For example, the deleted Be Me a Little scene establishes Abby's gender as female.) But I'm also intrigued by the relationship between trailers and deleted scenes. If a deleted scene is in the trailer, doe...

Chapter 4 of The Holy Grail is now posted. http://let-the-right-one-in.com/fancontent/ff/chapter-4-day-in-the-sun Picking up Abby's backstory in 1887 means encountering her after she has been a vampire for over 100 years. So this younger Abby is still carrying a lot of baggage, and some of that come...

This story began with my picturing Thomas hunched over in the kitchen before his final trip out. Such weariness in his body language, even though we're seeing him from behind. A weariness that has developed over decades of "caring" for Abby. I really wanted to imagine Abby in that role of caring for...