Let Me In

While you're filling up your Netflix queue with Oscar-nominated films, consider this week's DVD releases! Along with these three movies, you can also rent Welcome to the Rileys starring Kristen Stewart.

Let Me In

This remake of the acclaimed Swedish horror film Let the Right One In is beautifully shot — if you don't mind the sight of blood. Breakout star Chloe Moretz plays a young girl with a dark secret: she's a vampire. Along with her guardian (Richard Jenkins), she moves in to a new apartment complex and befriends a local boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The story is terrifying and twisted, but much more compelling than your run-of-the-mill scary movie. DVD extras include unrated deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes featurettes.

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Never Let Me Go

This film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's sci-fi novel sticks fairly close to its source material. Carey Mulligan stars as Kathy H., a young girl raised in an isolated community along with her best friends Ruth (Keira Knightley) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield). But as the trio grows up, they struggle with everyday issues like young love and jealousy and a much larger discovery — the real reason behind their existence. The cast is excellent, and the film provides plenty of food for thought. DVD extras include a making-of documentary.

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Interested in seeing one of this week's new movie releases at the theater, The Social Network or Let Me In? Then check out what we have to say about whether you should watch, pass, or rent each film now!

Twilight and True Blood have made vampires into a sexy trend. Grown women coo over the likes of Edward Cullen and Eric Northman, but Let Me In reminds us of the creatures' less glamorous qualities: uncontrollable, often terrifying, and bloodthirsty.

Based on the lauded Swedish original Let the Right One In, the film follows a scrawny school boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who spends most of his days hiding from bullies or hanging out in the courtyard of his rundown apartment building. When a girl, Abby (Chloe Moretz), and her father (Richard Jenkins) move in next door, Owen takes an immediate interest in his new neighbors. He watches the father mysteriously leave late at night, and Owen can hear the man and his daughter yell through their paper-thin walls when he returns. As you might expect, their story is sinister. To find out what I mean, read more

Just because Twilight isn't in theaters and True Blood just ended, it's not like vampires have fallen off the pop culture radar. This week alone we've had not one but two bits of Breaking Dawn casting news, and starting this Friday, Let Me In comes to theaters with young Chloe Moretz as a bloodthirsty child. With even more actors putting on fangs, I felt it was time to have a go at my faceoff game, where you decide which vampire is hotter. Do you prefer The Vampire Diaries' Stefan Salvatore over Damon? Think Katherine is much more wicked than True Blood's Pam? Just click here to get started!

If you haven't had your fill of vampires between Eclipse and True Blood, then the international trailer for Let Me In provides even more bloodsucking action — albeit, in pint-sized form.

Based on the critically acclaimed Swedish film Let the Right One In, the movie centers on a bullied social outcast (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who becomes curious when young Abby (Chloe Moretz) moves into his building with her guardian (Richard Jenkins). The two form a complicated friendship — complicated in that she's a vampire. I'm sure devotees of the original may have beef with a remake, but this preview looks promising (and, of course, Moretz is utterly creepy). If you're a fan of the Swedish version, take a look at the trailer, and let me know what you think. The film comes to theaters Oct. 1, but for now just read more

• Check out the first photo of Kick-Ass's Chloe Moretz in the remake of Let the Right One In — Cinematical
• Liam Gallagher wants to cast the Beatles movie — PopWatch
• The first single from the Eclipse soundtrack will come from Muse — MTV Movies Blog
• Toby Jones will play the villain in Captain America — Zap2it
• Brush up on Friday Night Lights before tonight's season premiere — TV.com
• Justin Theroux talks Iron Man 2 — HitFix
• NBC picks up three new series for the Fall — Vulture
• The outlook is good for Matthew Perry's new ABC comedy — TV Squad
• Do you believe that Rob and Kristen really confirmed their relationship to Oprah? — PopSugar

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