Let The Right One In (2008): "A Twilight Contemporary"

We know you’re reading supernatural romance novels in Swedish, Stephenie Meyer!!! There are way too many similarities between Twilight and Let The Right One In (2008) for it to be a coincidence, but there is at least one major difference. Namely, one has sparkles, and the other has a sparkling array of trans and queer characters which makes it the perfect way to kick off our Pride Month Lineup. That’s right, the John Ajvide Lindqvist project follows the sacred rule of vampire media: It’s made for the gays — but that doesn’t mean we don’t have ideas about how it could be even gayer. Come for the trans vampires, but stay for what we’re pretty sure are gay dads.

References:

https://thefilmstage.com/center-stage-let-the-right-one-in/

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vandyperforms/2016/03/let-the-right-one-in-exclusion-and-isolation-within-outsider-status/

https://medium.com/the-writers-voice/the-role-that-identity-plays-in-let-the-right-one-in-72d35f808d52

https://vraikaiser.com/2019/09/26/let-the-right-one-in-is-a-queer-vampire-love-story/

http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3181