Berkeley Rep presents West Coast premiere of ‘Let the Right One In,’ based on the acclaimed Swedish horror film about a vampire and a bullied boy.
Oskar is a lonely 12-year-old boy, viciously bullied at school every day of his life. His father leaves, his mother drinks and the teachers look the other way. He feels as isolated by them as he does wandering through the desolate forest of birch trees surrounding his town. It’s there that bodies are found, strung from branches like sides of beef, in “Let the Right One In.”
On its surface a coming-of-age story in the horror genre, closer to “Buffy” than “Twilight,” it’s also an unsettling meditation on our most elemental fears, from mortality to alienation. Longtime collaborators director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett, who also mesmerized with “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “Black Watch,” have a genius for capturing the primal impulse.
The scene would have even more visceral impact if Jon Demegillo, Michael Johnston and Jack DiFalco generated more menace as the boys who oh-so casually humiliate Oskar in endless acts of cruelty. Their ritual savagery needs more edge to raise the stakes. Still, one of the most moving moments is when you realize you are emphatically rooting for the monster to triumph over the humans.
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