LTROI Film Book

[Parasomniaa]

And The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for that matter...

[Hume]

It's available. Here's the cover:


From amazon:

Product Description

Audiences can't get enough of fang fiction. Twilight, True Blood, Being Human, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Underworld, and the novels of Anne Rice and Darren Shan—against this glut of bloodsuckers, it takes an incredible film to make a name for itself. Directed by Tomas Alfredson and adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist, The Swedish film Làt den rätte komma in (2008), known to American audiences as Let the Right One In, is the most exciting, subversive, and original horror production since the genre's best-known works of the 1970s. Like Twilight, Let the Right One In is a love story between a human and a vampire—but that is where the resemblance ends. Set in a snowy, surburban housing estate in 1980s Stockholm, the film combines supernatural elements with social realism. It features Oskar, a lonely, bullied child, and Eli, the girl next door. "Oskar, I'm not a girl," she tells him, and she's not kidding—she's a vampire. The two forge an intense relationship that is at once innocent and disturbing. Two outsiders against the world, one of these outsiders is, essentially, a serial killer. What does Eli want from Oskar? Simple companionship, or something else? While startlingly original, Let the Right One In could not have existed without the near century of vampire cinema that preceded it. Anne Billson reviews this history and the film's inheritence of (and new twists on) such classics as Nosferatu (1979) and Dracula (1931). She discusses the genre's early fliration with social realism in films such as Martin (1977) and Near Dark (1987), along with its adaptation of mythology to the modern world, and she examines the changing relationship between vampires and humans, the role of the vampire's assistant, and the enduring figure of vampires in popular culture.

About the Author

Anne Billson is a novelist, film critic, and photographer based in Paris. She has written a number of fiction and non-fiction works, including the vampire novel Suckers and a volume in the BFI Modern Classics series on John Carpenter's The Thing, and reviews films for the Sunday Telegraph.

Has anyone had a look at it?

[Nightrider]

Here's another review:

Genuinely stimulating writing on film is relatively rare these days, but the always insightful Anne Billson has been delivering such fare within the pages of the Guardian for some considerable time. Her sharp intellect is customarily combined with a taste for less respectable genres (such as the more gruesome horror film), and her judgments are delivered in lively fashion. This is a concise but penetrating volume on one of the most influential Swedish films in some considerable time; the intriguing analysis of Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One may be delivered within only a hundred or so pages, but Billson still produces a remarkable number of aperçus on this highly influential adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's remarkable novel. She points out the innovations of the film and the fashion in which it draws upon nearly a hundred years of vampire cinema.
The book is part of a series from Auteur Publishing called Devil's Advocates, and another welcome volume in the series is Ian Cooper's study of the Michael Reeves classic Witchfinder General. On the strength of these two volumes, one can only hope that the Devil's Advocates series manages to extend its reach throughout the entire genre of horror cinema — there are many films which deserve this kind of incisive treatment.

Let The Right One In by Anne Billson is published by Auteur Publishing

Don't know if it's any good, but I noticed that book few months ago when it was only available from Amazon UK. It is from the same publisher as BFI Modern Classics series of books that is very good source of information about certain film titles. I have four volumes from that series and if this LTROI book is anything like BFI series it should be a good read. It's a bit pricey for a small 128 page paperback. From $15.00(plus postage) on up.