This elegant Swedish horror film about a frail, bullied 12-year-old (who looks and acts quite a bit like Timmy Lupus from The Bad News Bears) whose girlfriend next door turns out to be a vampire is a stunning piece of work, mixing preadolescent romantic longing with a stark sense of what it would mean to be a vampire in the modern world. Effectively set against the dull backdrop of a bland modernist suburb in the frigid Nordic winter, the film builds to a climactic single shot in a swimming pool that is among the most cleverly shocking and disconcertingly enthralling images I have ever seen. (DVD Awards Screener)