Julia Ragnarsson and Erik Enge (“Tiger”) are the two leading stars of “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller series based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name. The show has been ordered by Viaplay and is being produced by Harmonica Films with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne co-producing.
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.
The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.
The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Showtime has ordered “Let the Right One In,” an adaptation of the 2008 Swedish movie (itself adapted from a novel), to series. This version will star Demián Bichir, Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer, Madison Taylor Baez, Kevin Carroll, Ian Foreman and Jacob Buster.
Andrew Hinderaker wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner. He’ll executive produce along with Seith Mann, who directed the pilot and will also direct additional episodes.
“Let the Right One In” has a 10-episode order. It will begin production in New York City in early 2022.
The series version centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez), whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.
Andrew Hinderaker wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner. He’ll executive produce along with Seith Mann, who directed the pilot and will also direct additional episodes.
“Let the Right One In” has a 10-episode order. It will begin production in New York City in early 2022.
The series version centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez), whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.
- 9/22/2021
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
"I'd love to talk a little, we haven't done that very much." Another intriguing and well-made short film to feature this month. The Best of Intentions, also known as Han som ville henne så väl in Swedish, is a Swedish suspense thriller short film directed by actor Emil Jonsson - who also stars in this film. Famous Swedish actor Per Ragnar, seen in Light the Right One In, co-stars as a father of a disabled woman who comes to confront one of the workers at the care home where she lives. It's described as a thriller "in the vein of old Twilight Zone episodes" and definitely has that feel. The two lead performances are outstanding, and the tension building is impressive. It's a thought-provoking thriller cleverly addressing moral dilemmas. Description from Vimeo: "Per Ragnar is utterly believable as the vindictive father of a disabled girl in a care home. Convinced...
- 10/17/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Father's Day: the hallowed holiday where we celebrate dads everywhere, even the shining examples of fatherhood that see fit to terrorize their offspring as if they were the enemy. Wait! Those aren't the dads we want to celebrate! They're part of the problem!
Bad parenting seems to be a bit of a trend when it comes to horror, and we've got 13 daddies, a mixed bag of the good and bad, to celebrate the upcoming holiday...and perhaps make you appreciate your own father a little more.
First we celebrate the dedicated dads who'd do anything for their children – as few as there seem to be in fiction, that is.
Rick Grimes, “The Walking Dead”
Actor: Andrew Lincoln
A dedicated father through and through, Rick's first actions upon waking from his coma are searching for his wife and son in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, which has been raging on...
Bad parenting seems to be a bit of a trend when it comes to horror, and we've got 13 daddies, a mixed bag of the good and bad, to celebrate the upcoming holiday...and perhaps make you appreciate your own father a little more.
First we celebrate the dedicated dads who'd do anything for their children – as few as there seem to be in fiction, that is.
Rick Grimes, “The Walking Dead”
Actor: Andrew Lincoln
A dedicated father through and through, Rick's first actions upon waking from his coma are searching for his wife and son in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, which has been raging on...
- 6/15/2012
- by Molotov Cupcake
- DreadCentral.com
2008 - 115 mins. - Rated R
D: Tomas Alfedson
C: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Odd young boy befriends a young girl that has moved into the same apartment complex as himself. Over time, he slowly begins to realize that she is a vampire.
The cinematography of Let The Right One In is some of the most striking in recent memory. However, cinematography alone does not make a film. The central plot line involves two odd, weird characters that society has shunned coming together and finding friendship and mutual understanding with one another. While the performances from its two young leads are competent as stand alone performances, these two young actors fail to find a flow with one another. They fail to ignite chemistry with one another. They just don't feed off of one another. People who get one another or are friends with one another, have that...
D: Tomas Alfedson
C: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Odd young boy befriends a young girl that has moved into the same apartment complex as himself. Over time, he slowly begins to realize that she is a vampire.
The cinematography of Let The Right One In is some of the most striking in recent memory. However, cinematography alone does not make a film. The central plot line involves two odd, weird characters that society has shunned coming together and finding friendship and mutual understanding with one another. While the performances from its two young leads are competent as stand alone performances, these two young actors fail to find a flow with one another. They fail to ignite chemistry with one another. They just don't feed off of one another. People who get one another or are friends with one another, have that...
- 2/1/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Swedish horror 'Psalm 21' has gotten itself a new trailer, complete with English subtitles and it looks great. The flick has been circulating through all the regular fests for what seems like an eternity and this creepy religious tale will hopefully be sending shivers down it's audiences' spines when it is released across Sweden on 5 November. 'Psalm 21' stars Jonas Malmsjo, Niklas Falk, Bjorn Bengtsson, Gorel Crona, Josefin Ljungman, Per Ragnar, Gunvor Ponten, Julia Dufvenius, Lena B. Eriksson. You can check out the new trailer below. 'Henrik Horneus (played by Jonas Malmsjo) is a beloved Stockholm priest who recently has had increasingly frightening nightmares about his dead mother. One day after service, he learns that his father, Gabriel Horneus, also a priest, has died mysteriously in a drowning accident. Henrik has not met him since he was a little boy, when his father, following his divorce to Henrik's mother,...
- 10/18/2010
- Horror Asylum
Tomas Alfredson's dark supernatural fable Let The Right One In was one of the best films of 2008, but it had one glaring flaw: it was in fucking Swedish. Sure, the movie was phenomenal, if you didn't mind reading words on the bottom of a screen for 117 minutes. As they say in Sweden, jag knullar ditt bröd! (Translation: fuck your bread!) If you're anything like me, you don't go to the movies to read. You go to avoid reading. Also, to avoid process servers.
If you've seen neither the original film nor this one, and if you're interested in either, the nicest thing to say about this version is, it'll do. If it's one of those nights when you just don't wanna read nuthin', Let Me In will simulate the Let The Right One In experience, without all the ümlauts. And, to "writer"/director Reeves' credit, he makes some choices which,...
If you've seen neither the original film nor this one, and if you're interested in either, the nicest thing to say about this version is, it'll do. If it's one of those nights when you just don't wanna read nuthin', Let Me In will simulate the Let The Right One In experience, without all the ümlauts. And, to "writer"/director Reeves' credit, he makes some choices which,...
- 10/13/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Year: 2009
Directors: Fredrik Hiller
Writers: Fredrik Hiller
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: oblivion
Rating: 7 out of 10
If you only preach forgiveness and leave judgment unto God, how do you recognize when evil has been done? This question, among many others, seems to be at the heart of Swedish director Fredrik Hiller’s Psalm 21. Drawing heavily on the scripture from which it takes its name, Psalm 21 is a religious thriller with a twist of horror, and a strong message. At times creepy and macabre, the film delivers an engaging and suspenseful narrative amid a dark atmosphere rich in foreboding. Though the delivery of its message hijacks the latter parts, overrunning and drowning out the horror that set it up, Psalm 21 is a deep film ripe with robust performances and deft production that easily solidify it a place among the genre’s better films.
The story centers on...
Directors: Fredrik Hiller
Writers: Fredrik Hiller
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: oblivion
Rating: 7 out of 10
If you only preach forgiveness and leave judgment unto God, how do you recognize when evil has been done? This question, among many others, seems to be at the heart of Swedish director Fredrik Hiller’s Psalm 21. Drawing heavily on the scripture from which it takes its name, Psalm 21 is a religious thriller with a twist of horror, and a strong message. At times creepy and macabre, the film delivers an engaging and suspenseful narrative amid a dark atmosphere rich in foreboding. Though the delivery of its message hijacks the latter parts, overrunning and drowning out the horror that set it up, Psalm 21 is a deep film ripe with robust performances and deft production that easily solidify it a place among the genre’s better films.
The story centers on...
- 4/6/2010
- QuietEarth.us
In honor of Halloween, a day of vampires and naughty misdeeds, I sat down to watch Let the Right One In again -- a movie tied to a naughty misdeed of my own. My offending act of immoral behavior? Back when it was released, one year ago, on Oct. 24, 2008, I wrote a review that trashed this pensive and brooding Swedish vampire movie. I called it "arty," I said that it wasn't "coherent," and I accused the hero -- a 12-year-old blond boy in a wintry Stockholm suburb who befriends the vampire child next door -- of "skulk through the movie in a blank-faced torpor.
- 10/31/2009
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
Then again, Let the Right One In is less about a neck-chomping vampire than it is about the friendship forged between said eternally 12-year-old bloodsucker Eli (Lina Leandersson) and the introverted, bullied Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a tale of two souls whose meeting is either the best or the worst thing that could happen to each of them. Eli arrives in the Stockholm town in which Oskar lives in the middle of nighttime, accompanied by an older man in the shape of Hakan (Per Ragnar), who, we learn, assists Eli in claiming her human victims. As troubled Oskar begins to awkwardly communicate with Eli, a bond grows between them that begins to see Oskar's confidence build.
- 4/12/2009
- by Tom Elce
- DearCinema.com
The logline on Let The Right One In makes it sound like a lighthearted Ya horror piece: A bullied 12-year-old boy falls in love with the same-aged vampire girl next door. But this Swedish production is so much more than that. For one thing, it’s thoroughly adult in tone in texture, and while it’s consistently attuned to the youthful state of mind, the film refuses to sentimentalize those concerns. It’s a remarkably moving and genuinely frightening evocation of childhood terrors, fantasies and frailties, and it immediately takes its place among the classics of the vampire genre.
Director Tomas Alfredson and scripter John Ajvide Lindqvist (adapting his popular novel) aren’t out to subvert or reinvent bloodsucker standards here; the v word is spoken and the conventions are respected, albeit tweaked at times in interesting ways. (The title derives from the traditional trope that a vampire must be...
Director Tomas Alfredson and scripter John Ajvide Lindqvist (adapting his popular novel) aren’t out to subvert or reinvent bloodsucker standards here; the v word is spoken and the conventions are respected, albeit tweaked at times in interesting ways. (The title derives from the traditional trope that a vampire must be...
- 3/26/2009
- Fangoria
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0 Chicago – Tomas Alfredson’s “Let the Right One In” was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, an arthouse sensation that has been so beloved by everyone who has seen it that it ranks among the best films of all time on IMDb based on user votes. Based on the book by John Ajvide Lindqvist, “Let the Right One In” is a masterpiece of its genre, one of the most essential vampire films ever made. The Blu-Ray is a little disappointing, but the film itself makes up for it.
The theme of nearly every piece of vampire fiction is isolation. The vampire is the outcast, the count in a creepy castle who will outlive or kill everyone he’s ever cared about. “Let the Right One In” brilliantly melds that idea with one of the times when a lot us felt like outcasts - puberty.
Let the Right One In...
The theme of nearly every piece of vampire fiction is isolation. The vampire is the outcast, the count in a creepy castle who will outlive or kill everyone he’s ever cared about. “Let the Right One In” brilliantly melds that idea with one of the times when a lot us felt like outcasts - puberty.
Let the Right One In...
- 3/9/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Let the Right One In ... Låt Den Rätte Komma In Directed by: Tomas Alfredson Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Patrik Rydmark Running Time: 1 hr 45 min Rating: R Plot: Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), a 12 year old boy, is unhappily resigned to a lonely life of friendlessness and a wicked trio of school bullies. When a mysterious girl named Eli (Lina Leandersson) moves into the apartment next door, the two outcasts form a deep connection. The dark and beautiful Eli is actually a 200 year old vampire, struggling for discretion and survival on a day-to-day basis. Who’s It For? Horror fans. Wait, allow me to clarify--discriminating horror fans with taste and sophistication. Låt Den Rätte Komma In is a Swedish film, so go in expecting subtitles. If you like those brainless, sexist, and...
- 11/14/2008
- The Scorecard Review
In the Stockholm suburb of Let The Right One In, terrible things can happen just out of sight. Kåre Hedebrant, a 12-year-old child of divorce, knows this well; he frequently falls victim to a pack of bullies in empty bathrooms or deserted hallways between classes. His new neighbor Per Ragnar knows it too. He uses the dark woods to drug passersby and drain them of blood while headlights flash on a nearby street. In the dark, victims and victimizers find common ground. Hedebrant has another new neighbor in Ragnar's apartment, 12-year-old Lina Leandersson, who introduces herself to Hedebrant with the words, "I can't be your friend," then proceeds to spend every evening with him in the halfhearted park outside their apartment complex. Sometimes she smells bad and looks haggard. At other moments, she looks like a girl in the flush of youth. Meanwhile, residents keep disappearing, and Hedebrant starts...
- 11/6/2008
- by Keith Phipps
- avclub.com
Check out the latest movie poster from the upcoming Swedish horror film “Let The Right One In” from director Tomas Alfredson (Four Shades of Brown) and starring Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar (Kenny Begins) and Henrik Dahl (All About My Bush). Synopsis: Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can’t stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he’s faced with a choice. How much can love forgive? Let The Right One In is a story both violent and [...]...
- 10/4/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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