Let me in

[cyberschizoid]

Who has seen Hammer Films remake of Swedish vampire flick "Let The Right One In"?
What did you think?

Here's my review but in brief I gotta say I really loved it!

http://www.cyberschizoid.com/2010/11...let-me-in.html

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I thought the idea of remaking Let the Right One In was utterly terrible as those who will appreciate a film like that will be those who don't mind reading subtitles thus making an English-language remake utterly pointless.

All that said and onto the film. It seems as if Matt Reeves took the book and screenplay and decided to change it so is aimed almost at the teenage and Twilight audience so you have all of the strange eyes, violent kills (along with very loud sound effects) and a slightly more attractive and less ethereal vampire. Mark Kermode was right when he said some time ago that the main difference is that Let the Right One In was a film about children with a vampire subplot whereas Let Me In is a film about vampires which happens to feature children.

This film is a terrible but it's just so utterly pointless and I spent every minute in the cinema thinking "that was better in the original", "why did they introduce that thread are not expand it?", "that was way too explicit and should have been left ambiguous" or "why was that left out?"

It's not a terrible film and will probably entertain those who haven't seen the original and want a vampire film with blood, loud music and an extremely kinetic vampire. For those of you who love and cherish the original and rightly think it was the best film of 2009, I'd stay away.

[nekromantik]

Nosferatu yours is the first bad review I have read.
I not seen it and dont plan to see it in cinema (will rent when out) but so far all the fans of the original who went to see it said it aint better then the original but it aint worse as its a different movie and they enjoyed it. some even went as far as saying best remake in recent years.

[thundercrack]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Mark Kermode was right when he said some time ago that the main difference is that Let the Right One In was a film about children with a vampire subplot whereas Let Me In is a film about vampires which happens to feature children.

For those of you who love and cherish the original and rightly think it was the best film of 2009, I'd stay away.

I agree that the original was the best film of the year 2009.

By the way I have only seen one clip from the film on TV where the girl asks to be invited in and the scene is exactly the same os the original, except the girl sounds just like a girl and not an adult (ie dubbed by an adult to sound like a very old person stuck in a 12 year old's body) like the original was. judging from that clip it looks like a shot for shot remake.

I also can't understand how it's got all those rave reviews especially the one from Stephen King calling it the best American horror film of the last 20 years. Obviously he's got his head stuck up his own arse.

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by thundercrack

I agree that the original was the best film of the year 2009.

By the way I have only seen one clip from the film on TV where the girl asks to be invited in and the scene is exactly the same os the original, except the girl sounds just like a girl and not an adult (ie dubbed by an adult to sound like a very old person stuck in a 12 year old's body) like the original was. judging from that clip it looks like a shot for shot remake.

I also can't understand how it's got all those rave reviews especially the one from Stephen King calling it the best American horror film of the last 20 years. Obviously he's got his head stuck up his own arse.

It's definitely not a shot for shot remake as I heard the director hadn't even seen the original film, he actually created his own version of the original novel. Some say Let Me In is actually closer in tone to the novel than Let The Right One In

[Leman]

Originally Posted by antmumford

It's definitely not a shot for shot remake as I heard the director hadn't even seen the original film, he actually created his own version of the original novel. Some say Let Me In is actually closer in tone to the novel than Let The Right One In

Its not. The Novel is even more heartbreaking and bittersweet than the movie, it goes a little further into Eli's past and sets up Hakkan far more deftly, it even atempts to make him a sympathetic character.