What happens if you fall in love with a vampire? That was the big question in 2008 when two movies tried to answer the same question with wildly different results.
The biggest, of course, was “Twilight,” the tepid teen vampire romance adapted from the novel by Stephanie Meyer, who did away with some of the gnarlier elements of bloodsucker lore and had hers twinkling in the sunshine instead of their usual scorching fate.Lesser known but far better received by horror fans and critics was Tomas Alfredson’s bleak and tender “Let the Right One In.” Adapting the screenplay from his own novel, author John Ajvide Lindqvist stated that his intention was to ditch any romanticized notions and imagine what life would really be like for a vampire stuck in the body of a 12-year-old child (via Ain’t it Cool).
Needless to say, it is much less glossy than Robert Pattinson
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