This brilliant and chilling vampire movie arrives from the cold city blocks of Sweden and proceeds to stomp snow all over the screen. The clever premise here is that a young boy (who is being bullied at school) gets a new neighbor one night in his apartment building. It’s an older man who seems to be living with a girl his age. Well slowly and coldly it is revealed that the girl is a vampire and the man is her familiar, doing anything for his devoted child queen, including pouring acid over his face in a memorable scene to avoid being identified and linked to her. Yes this is a movie with some gruesome scares but the main strengths came from the killer script (based on a bestselling novel) and the standout performances especially from the main girl who has an otherworld and older quality, which makes her role impossible to remake. It’s a chilling, daring and terrifying tale that is a real crowd pleaser even while not ending quite where one might expect.