Via the Onion‘s A.V. Club—and just in time to counteract this goddamn Twilight: Eclipse business—comes the international trailer for Let Me In, the American remake of the phenomenal 2008 Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In.
This remake probably doesn’t need to exist—the only reason it does, I’m about 99.9999 percent sure, is ’cause American studios think most Americans are either illiterate or too lazy to read subtitles. That said, this film had a super-secret test screening here in Portland a month or two back, complete with the studio bigwigs and the director in attendance. While there was no way they’d let anyone even slightly resembling a member of the press within 100 yards, a friend of mine managed to sneak in and was pretty impressed—he noted that while this remake kept a lot of the good things about the original, director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) did a solid job of making it stand on its own, too.
But hey, what does my friend know? He was probably drunk. Here’s the trailer!
I like this early glimpse of it—while it does seem louder than the original (which was so affecting, in large part, because of its quietness), I dig the look of it, and I’m excited to see Chloe Moretz (AKA Kick-Ass‘ Hit-Girl) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (AKA that lovable scamp from The Road) in these roles. But blah blah blah—it’s time to do what the internet does best and let anonymous people be judgmental! LET US JUDGE!
CONDEMN OR ALLOW: THE INTERNATIONAL TRAILER FOR LET ME IN!
I really dislike the name change. And in this version, the boy looks creepier.
Why try to remake a perfectly good Swedish movie. And furthermore: stop with the fucking vampires already! Let’s move back towards pirateninjazombiehookerbots, which is what we all really want anyway.
I could do without the song in the trailer, but all in all this looks more promising than I was expecting.
I have a feeling they’re going to stick much closer to the book in this version, which means we’ll be seeing a lot more of mangled, half-faced Hakan.
I think filming the book would be too disturbing for Hollywood. There ain’t gunna be no toothless child prostitutes hanging out in libraries. That’s just too fucked up for American audiences. This version is gunna SUCK some balls…