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7. Let The Right One In - If She Wasn't A Girl
Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In had some notable differences to its English language remake (or whatever director Matt Reeves claimed it was). Aside from the quality difference (one excellently shot car crash excluded), there was a distinct lack of subtlety to Let Me In, with key underlying mysteries being more obliquely solved.
But one plot strand that wasn't touched on at all was Abby's backstory, something tantalisingly hinted at in the Swedish original. It's a short moment a mere flash as Oskar accidentally peeks in on Eli changing we see that instead of normal female genitalia Eli simply has a scar. It takes a moment for the shot to sink in, then the true meaning of Elis Would you still like me even if I wasn't a girl sinks in.
The original novel (and a deleted scene from the film) provides us some concrete explanation of this; in the ceremony where boy Eli became a vampire, he was castrated and now lives life as a forever young girl. Despite the suggestive nature of this, it provokes fearful thoughts and cements the horror's status.