Let the Right One in

While Let the Right One In is startlingly original, it nevertheless couldn't have existed without the near century of vampire cinema that preceded it Acclaimed horror writer Anne Billson looks at how it has drawn from, and wrung new twists on, such classics as Nosferatu (1922), how vampire cinema has already flirted with social realism in films like Martin (I 977) and Near Dark (1987) and how vampire mythology adapts itself to the modern world. --Book Jacket.