Don't Let Him In (2011)

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The acting in this movie is really good.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A rather dull couple take a break at a remote cottage in the country. Our dull couple take with them the male's whingeing sister, and the bloke she picked up yesterday for a one-night stand, who is aggressive, secretive, and generally extremely unpleasant. They have hardly been at the cottage for 10 minutes (not all that remote, then) before the local copper turns up and warns them about the local serial killer who is dismembering people and hanging the bits from trees. That night, a bloke turns up badly injured from assorted knife wounds: our heroine is a nurse and she stitches him up in no time. But that doesn't stop the killings. By which I mean it doesn't stop the killings starting within our group. Who on earth could the killer be? (by the way, don't bother asking, because the answer makes little sense).This is a cabin in the woods, last man standing, slasher horror. If it had been an American cabin in the woods movie, all the trees would have been in leaf: as it is British, it is inevitably filmed in the winter, when cottages don't have holiday letting, so all the trees are bare and everyone looks frozen. I digress. It is extremely slow to get started, and afflicted with a script in which the characters are a) almost all completely unlikeable and b) even more than usually inclined to behave with suicidal stupidity. Some of the acting is OK, and the technical aspects of the film are dealt with professionally.But it isn't very good, and I don't recommend it.

Apparently 'Don't Let Him In' is to be released in the UK in readiness for Halloween. Quite surprised that there are already over 1500 Facebook 'likes'.I've also just watched a little presentation, including interviews, of the London Premiere......seems it went down well.In view of all this I've just watched the film again, after a gap of over a year, and have to admit that I liked it far better this time around. Maybe its just the time of year (Halloween).....or perhaps the film just grows on you?Anyway, all of this stuff is now on the DLHI website.

The only reason I watched it is because I paid $4 to see it (and I feel ripped off). So I put a scratch through it and took it back and said I couldn't watch it so they said I could get a replacement movie for free. I win. :) This movie had it all, bad acting, cliché storyline, and you have no interest for the characters. I couldn't wait to see them die. I watched this up to the end just to see if it got any better at some stage... and I'm still waiting for it to get better! This is a case of where the cover looks good... and that's all that is good, apart from some of the death scenes. But a good death scene does not a movie make as they say. There is a cool eye scene though, you'll know what I mean if you have already seen it. So in summary, I thought it was *expletive* and give it a 2 out of 10, ONLY because it had a couple of okay bloody scenes.

I was shocked just how bad this movie was. It was well made, well acted, great scenery, and like a said, you can polish a turd, but its still a turd. As well made as this movie was it was terrible. It was a typical slasher movie except all of the characters have had their brains surgically removed. None of the characters do things that people in real life do, nor do they react to situations like a normal human being. Two scenes that jump out at me are when the 'mysterious' hitchhiker shows up at the main characters remote cabin with a stab wound. The main female character is a nurse and immediately begins to give him medical aid (I with the scene so far), so the tertiary blonde bimbo say in the background, I will call an ambulance. The nurse lady tells her that there is no time for that. Then the blonde watches impotently as the main character saves his life. What the 'f' do you mean that there is no time to call an ambulance, the blonde wasn't helping anyway, so call the effing ambulance. But here's the kicker, after the mysterious stranger is going to live, they don't call the police, an ambulance, they are going to let this wounded guy stay in there remote cabin without an explanation to why he was stabbed. I don't know about you, but if a guy shows up at my door with a gushing stab wound, granted I am going to do everything that I can to save his life, but the ambulance and police are going to be called. The second unforgivable scene is when the protagonists now know who one of the killers are, and still let him back into the house. The movie was so terribly written it begs for an explanation. How could you have gathered a group of intelligent actors and not have anybody say, 'you know this doesn't make any sense'...