It's fairer to think of Showtime's 'Let the Right One In' as loosely inspired by the source material instead of directly tapped into it.

Showtime's version, in addition to reclaiming the original title of 'Let the Right One In,' removes that weirdness entirely by making Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez) and her father Mark ( Demián Bichir) a true father and daughter, and the girl vampire an actual girl, one who has been 12 for a decade instead of centuries. The book and subsequent movie adaptations of the story, including the cold, haunting 2008 Swedish version and Matt Reeves' American remake, 'Let Me In,' soften some of the story's central frictions, primarily the queasy sexual tension between the child and the man providing for her.ĭemián Bichir as Mark Kane in 'Let The Right One In' (Francisco Roman/SHOWTIME) Lindqvist's monsters are a girl who isn't really a girl, and her caretaker, a guardian who isn't her father. Few stories better encapsulate the tragedy of the vampire as a creature capable of intense emotion and humanity but unable to age, feel or permanently quell the urge to feed on human blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist created what may be the perfect modern vampire story in his 2004 novel 'Let the Right One In,' the story of a bullied boy befriended by a strange girl who is more than she seems, bonded by a shared sense of separation from the world around them.

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