Is the latest vampire fad getting tiresome? Is Twilight or True Blood getting on your nerves? Well, find it in yourself to watch the latest vampire film, Let Me In, because you will not be disappointed. The love story in this movie is between two 12-year-olds, but the basis of their relationship is not sexual, it is the loneliness and rage they both share.

Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road) lives in Los Alamos (yes, New Mexico) and is struggling between the bullies at his school and his parents' divorce. One night he watches as an old man carries boxes from a taxi into the apartment next door. A shabbily dressed girl follows in bare feet through the snow. When they first meet she tells him, "We can't be friends." Of course they do become friends, and he learns that her name is Abby (Chloë Moretz, Kick-Ass). As their friendship grows, a series of gruesome and bloody murders are committed by the man Owen believes to be Abby's father in order to feed her blood lust. Owen soon realizes she is a vampire.

Let Me In has the blood and gore you would expect to find in any vampire movie. However, the special effects are done so well that even if you are someone who doesn't like bloody scenes you will still appreciate the movie. The acting is extremely good. Moretz outdid herself again in this film. If you liked her in Kick-Ass, you will like her in Let Me In.

Marielle Dent is a sophomore at Academy for Technology and the Classics. You can contact her at onyx-13@hotmail.com.