Abstract
This chapter speculates on the approach when the romanticized notions about vampires are removed as shown in Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In. The chapter analyses the miserable and lonely existence of a child who is stuck forever in a 12-year-old body and has to walk around killing other people and drinking their blood to live. It also talks about the acknowledgement of Let the Right One In as a modern classic and in a class of its own that is distinct from other contemporary vampire and horror movies. The chapter mentions Philip French in The Observer who described Let the Right One In as a major addition to the vampire genre. It also reviews several new twists on the old traditions and elements of coming-of-age stories, childhood fantasy, and serial-killer movies seen in Let the Right One In.
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