Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee as Owen
Chloe Moretz as Abby
Richard Jenkins as the Father
Cara Buono as Owen's Mother
Elias Koteas as the Policeman
Dylan Minnette as Kenny
Overview:
12-year-old Owen (Smith-McPhee) lives with his mother (Buono) in a small and run down apartment complex. His parents are going through a divorce and is neglected by both his parents. Owen has no friends and is constantly picked on by Kenny (Minnette), the school bully. Because of the constant abuse and neglect, Owen developed severe psychological issues and emotional issues. One day, a young girl (Moretz) and her father (Jenkins) move into the apartment next door. While playing in the courtyard one night, Owen is approached by Abby who claims that the two of them cannot be friends. Despite this warning, the two begin to grow closer, seeing each other every night in the court yard. However, Abby is hiding a dark secret.
Abby is a young vampire girl, who woos young boys to fall in love with her, so that they can stick by her side and do her killing for the rest of his life. Abby's so-called father, named Thomas, is actually a boy that fell in love with her 40 years ago. He goes out every night, kills a person, and collects their blood so that Abby does not have to do any dirty work or risk getting caught. However, on one night, Thomas gets into a terrible car accident while trying to kill Abby's next victim. He has no choice but to douse his face with acid so that his connection to Abby will not be discovered. After being taken to the hospital, Thomas is questioned by a policeman (Koteas) who claims that he, "will find out whoever did this," to Thomas. Abby, hearing about the accident on the news, shows up at Thomas' window and drinks his blood, after he silently implores her to do so.
Upset about Thomas' death, Abby grows closer to Owen. They both have to avoid the policeman, who has traced Thomas back to Abby thanks to eye witnesses. He comes to Abby's apartment and bangs on the door, waiting patiently for someone to answer. After a few days, Owen wants to show his admiration to Abby by joining in a blood pact with her. When he slices his finger, Abby is immediately drawn to the blood and unintentionally shows her vampiric form to Owen for the first time. Instead of listening to her instincts and attacking him, she runs away from him in order to save him. Though Owen has seen a horrific scene, he is not phased and not scared by Abby; instead, he grows more fond of her and becoming a happier person.
One day, the policeman arrives again at Abby's apartment. Thinking he hears someone inside, he kicks down the door and enters the dark room. He sees that all the windows have been duct taped up, and begins to tear bits and pieces of them down. Wondering around the apartment, he finds Abby asleep in the bathtub, under several blankets in order to escape the sun. A tiny window in the bathroom is also covered up with duct tape and the policeman begins to tear it off when Owen, who was hiding in the apartment the entire time, startles him. While the policeman is distracted, Abby jumps on his back and begins to feed off him. The policeman stretches his hand out toward Owen in a gesture of asking for help, but Owen just reaches out and closes the bathroom door. After killing the policeman, Abby tells Owen that she must go away since they will find out the killer was her.
Days go by and Owen is back to his depressed self. During an after school swimming class, Kenny, his older brother, and two of their friends torture and threaten Owen by saying that if he cannot hold his breath for three minutes, they will cut one of his eyes out. As Owen is held under the water, he struggles to hold his breath and thinks that this is the end for him. Out of no where, a creature glides through the water, screams can be heard, and the pool fills with blood. As Owen surfaces, he sees Abby standing on the side of the pool. She had slain all the boys and saved Owen's life. Owen can only stare up at her with feelings of love and longing.
The last scene of the movie shows Owen on a train with a giant trunk at his feet. A tap sounds from the inside of the trunk and Owen taps back on the trunk. It is at this point that Owen is the "new" Thomas. He has committed the rest of his life to serving Abby, despite the fact that she is a monster.
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