Hoping to start a new life, Mark (Demián Bichir) moves into an apartment in New York City with vampiric daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez), as the city's high rate of murder means he can find sacrifices for her daughter more innocuously. Showtime's Let the Right One In manages to feel just as fresh for the genre as the source material, delivering a truly touching and heartbreaking exploration of loneliness, human connection, and sacrifice. Much like the vampiric creatures themselves, the core concept continues to be resurrected, this time as a Showtime series, and while fans are surely somewhat exhausted by a studio continuously attempting to breathe life into a well-known narrative, this new take on the material manages to honor the core structure of the novel while expanding on the world and also avoiding the feeling of being redundant. To the dismay of some, the Swedish film was then rebooted for American audiences as Let Me In, from The Batman director Matt Reeves. Only two years after publication, the process of developing a live-action film based on the story began, with that 2008 film winning over horror fans, as well as offering such a gripping story that its accomplishments appealed to those who often overlooked the horror world.
Published in 2004, Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel Let the Right One In not only offered readers a complex and unconventional vampire story, but its inventive path also highlighted just how desperate audiences were for a new approach to the stagnated genre.
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