Interesting new vampire movie – here are the introductory descriptions from James Bowman on the Spectator website:

“His vampire, Eli (Lina Leandersson), is an ethereally-beautiful child who is half Lolita, half Peter Pan. She befriends the lonely, epicene Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) who is the victim of bullies at school and an often-absent single-mother at home. We would be disposed to believe that Eli, with her combination of beauty and power, was a figment of his imagination were it not for Hakan (Per Ragnar), her strange companion who murders and drains the blood from random victims — human, not animal — in order to feed her. He is one of the film’s better ideas. We don’t know what his relations to Eli is, and he doesn’t appear to be a vampire himself. But for whatever reason he has taken it upon himself to adopt a parental role towards her, going out to do difficult and dangerous work in order that she may be protected and nourished.

The trouble is that, he does it so badly, on more than one occasion nearly getting caught in the midst of his halal-style butcheries of the neighbors and leaving her to do the more traditional vampire thing of fastening her teeth into people’s necks and drinking their blood fresh from the source. Even vampires, it seems, can have feckless or incompetent parents and providers and so be forced to make their own way in the world.”

The rest can be found here

Comments from myself: I really wish there was something new that could be said about the vampire genre as a whole. It would be glorious to think that Brian Lumley’s series could be made into a feature length group films. I just don’t think Hollywood would do it justice. In any case, I offer another in a long line of attempts to draw us back into our dark and cold shells.