Starts today Let the Right One In at Paramount+. The series is the remake of a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist *, which is the first Swedish cinema adaptation So dark the night has already become an international horror hit. Now the story also convinces as a vampire series with a new twist.
So Dark the Night as a series remake: Let the Right One In is not like other vampire stories
Of course, the basic story of Let the Right One In remains the same in the series remake: A bullied boy (Ian Foreman) meets a girl (Madison Taylor Baez) at night, who poses as a blood-drinking child vampire turns out and is hidden from the world by her father (Demián Bichir). However, Isaiah and Eleanor’s unlikely friendship soon has bloody consequences.
Watch the trailer for the horror remake Let the Right One In here
Let The Right One In – S01 Trailer (English) HD
Let the Right One In impresses above all with the successful eerie dark atmosphere. Unlike many other horror and vampire films, the staging is almost sober and values a feeling of realism (as much as the supernatural subject matter can).
Because when the (longer) 12-year-old Eleanor slurps the blood by canisters and her father Mark routinely identifies a new victim as a food source on the streets of New York at night, the next goosebumps are not far away. Nevertheless, he succeeds creepy vampire series, at the same time as compelling character drama come along that questions moral decisions, also allows warm moments and helps its excellently cast characters to develop properly.
What else can the third film adaptation add to the horror story in 13 years?
Now, after the Swedish premiere So dark the night (2008) and its US remake Let Me In (2010), Let the Right One In is, at first glance, just another rehash of something familiar. So is it really necessary to adapt the material within just 13 years? The skepticism associated with this question may already give way in the first episodes: because alone as a serial narrative had to reinvent the known story. And that’s good.
The blood-drinking vampire girl may feature length as Horror chamber play in the prefabricated building work great, but for a 10-episode series, this minimalist approach doesn’t cut it. So Let the Right One In carefully enriches the original story other elements on: The mother of the boy next door (Anika Noni Rose) is also a policewoman who follows a trail of bloodless corpses. Meanwhile, a scientist (Meryl Streep’s daughter Grace Gummer) with a mysterious background searches for a cure.
Above all, however, the character relationships benefit from the longer series running time. Because now, in the midst of all the horror digressions, Let the Right One In can do that too explore tragic figures more closely, whose dilemmas have only been hinted at before: what happens emotionally to a young woman stuck in a girl’s body? What is it like inside a father who gave up his career as a chef for a career as a killer?
to find out it’s worth it for fans of horror, vampires and character-driven series. Today Let the Right One In starts with two episodes on Paramount+ (also in the Sky Q subscription) and will then be shown with further double episodes every Thursday.
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