Movie Review: Let Us In
Director Craig Moss’s Let Us In is a gateway horror film based on the urban legend of black-eyed children. As an early introduction for preteens to science fiction and horror elements, it offers some amusing sequences, but teens and adults will likely find the proceedings predictable and the humor corny. Twelve-year-old Emily (Makenzie Moss) is still reeling from the accidental death of her older sister and has become the target of verbal bullying from the mean girls at her middle school. She is working on a science fair project to contact extraterrestrial life using common electronics parts with her best friend, 10-year-old Christopher (O’Neill Monahan). This is where childhood imagination or massive suspension of disbelief for viewers older than the early elementary school years becomes necessary, and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Meanwhile, local teens start disappearing when intimidating black-eyed kids come calling, asking “Will you let us in?” These hoodie-wearing nasties won’t easily take no for an answer, and
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