But don't let that turn you off seeing Let The Right One In, because it's an excellent film.

It's also a different kind of vampire film. It's not like the Twilight phenomenon - which is basically Mills & Boon with vampires - but a more honest, spooky and bloody film.

That's right, bloody. Unlike Twilight, which conveniently ignores so many standard vampire behaviours, the creatures here do actually suck blood, hate sunlight, can't enter rooms uninvited and even smell a bit funny.

Featuring a screenplay from John Ajvide Lindqvist, adapted from his awesome book of the same name, the story starts with Oskar (Hedebrant) a 12-year-old misfit who is picked on at school.

His saviour is a 12-year-old girl named Eli (Leandersson) who moves into his block of flats with a strange man named Hakan (Ragnar).

There's more to the pair than meets the eye. She's a vampire who feels guilt over her compulsion to sink her fangs into people and so has drafted Hakan to get her the blood she needs. Which sees him walking around town with a kit that includes a big plastic bottle with which to "siphon'' his victims.

While this is going on, the two lonely figures of Oskar and Eli are drawn towards each other. Their relationship isn't even jeopardised when Oskar works out what Eli really is (and the movie isn't jeopardised by this either - we accept this news as readily as Oskar does).

Watching their relationship unfold is beautiful and sweet - even if one of them has recently been forced to attack strangers to satisfy her cravings. Some might say this makes it the same as Twilight - a romantic story with vampiric overtones - but that would be a mistake. There's a depth to the attachment here and a clear need in each character for the other (as well as a question about whether Eli is just trying to groom Oskar as a replacement for Hakan). That's something missing from Twilight, where the couple seem to get together just because the script says they should.