Unfortunately, besides Emily and to some extent her friend Christopher, the rest of the characters are one-dimensional. In addition to her great performance, the film plays up the “town outcast who’s only friends with other outcasts” trope to the point where it’s impossible not to side with Emily and her allies. Director Craig Moss is her dad, so the role may have been designed for her, but she lives up to it, single-handedly propelling the movie along when the plot falters. Moss gives a natural, mature performance, and in spite of all the film’s faults, it’s a great star vehicle for her. A piece of advice if the Black-Eyed Children come to your door: Don’t let them in.Įmily is Let Us In’s bright spot. These kids will seem completely normal, except for their completely black eyes and the overwhelming sense of dread that comes over anyone who encounters them. The legend of the Black-Eyed Children says that on Halloween or other spooky nights, kids between the ages of 8 and 16 will come up to someone’s house or car, knock on the door, and insist on being let inside. One night, while home alone, she’s visited by strange people with completely black eyes, who ask her to let them in.

Now she gets bullied by the popular girls and spends her free time building an extraterrestrial communicator with her friend Christopher (O’Neill Monahan). She’s an outcast after a mysterious incident where her best friend Rachel died.

Let Us In’s lead, Emily, is a 12-year-old girl who lives in a small town where kids have been disappearing without a trace.

Though Moss’ performance is impressive, it isn’t enough to make this awkward film the next cult classic. Let Us In, directed and co-written by Craig Moss ( The Charnel House, Bad Ass), tries to re-introduce the subgenre to a new generation of kids while adding a pure horror spin, through its intrepid heroine Emily ( The Unicorn’s Makenzie Moss) and some monsters based on the urban legend of The Black-Eyed Children. While Netflix’s Stranger Things and Project Power reach back to that era of science fiction, the last few decades haven’t seen many ’80s-style tales of precocious, science-loving kids going on adventures or communicating with aliens. Films like E.T., Explorers, and The Goonies helped make the 1980s into a golden age of tween sci-fi and adventure.

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