‘Let the Right One In’ Is a Vampire Horror Story With No Bite

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Despite some solid performances, Showtime’s TV remake of the Swedish horror story—about a father and his vampire daughter—lacks the depravity and urgency of its predecessors.

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Not every story can be successfully transposed to a different country and culture. Case in point: Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 novel, which was faithfully adapted for the screen in 2008 by Tomas Alfredson, then remade in America in 2010 by The

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