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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">    <p>It seems that a vampire is roaming a Swedish city. In a seemingly unrelated story, 12-year-old Oskar (Kare Hedebrant) meets young Eli (Lina Leandersson), and since in a way they are both outsiders - he's constantly bullied at school, she seems to know nobody in the neighbourhood - they soon become friends. Thing is, Eli's father is the vampire who's roaming the streets, and this of course makes Eli a vampire as well - but since she likes Oskar, she does him no harm and actually helps him against the bullies, and often brutally so. Even when it dawns on Oskar that his girlfriend might be a vampire (like when she starts to bleed all over her body after entering a room uninvited - a big vampire-no-no), he's not prepared to give up on her. It's only when the vampire hunters close in on Eli's rather clumsy father that she has to skip town in a hurry ... but not before taking a bunch of bullies apart (literally) who try to drown Oskar in a swimming pool.<p> <p>Vampire tale, love story and coming-of-age drama - now there's a combination not likely to succeed. So it's much to the film's credit that it has become a relatively decent horror flick, nothing great but well enough handled to not be boring, sparkled with a few macabre surprises and humourous interludes, and by and large devoid of any obvious kitsch. But as I said, don't expect a masterpiece of any sort. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2008"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>