Vampiric thriller can’t match standards of Swedish original

Let the Right One In

by Jack Thorne (adapted from the novel and screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist)

Abbey Theatre, Dublin Runs until January 6

Rating: ***

Christopher Lee, arguably the greatest screen Dracula of all time, always claimed that vampires are lonely creatures who deserve pity as well as fear. Adolescent vampires must feel even more deeply like nobody else can understand them. “I’m nothing,” the mysterious urchin Eli (Katie Honan) warns ...