‘Cloverfield’ Director Brings Swedish Vampires to America With Remake of ‘Let the Right One In’

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 25, 2008

Let the Right One In

Cloverfield director Matt Reeves, has signed to direct a remake of the recent Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In. Reeves, a graduate of the Paul Greengrass School of Cinematography, has been linked to an unnecessary prequel/sequel to his successful monster movie, but has thankfully placed that on the back burner for now. He’s currently in production on Invisible Woman, a thriller about a woman who is in fact not invisible.

Let the Right One In is less a traditional vampire thriller than it is a calm and deliberate story about loneliness and friendship that happens to include vampires. /Film’s Peter Sciretta says “Imagine a coming of age movie like Stand By Me, but one of the characters just happens to need blood to live.” I can’t wait for the swedish fish-eating scene with the vomiting vampires. The film receives limited theatrical release here in the US starting 10/24 and the DVD is due next March. Check out the creepily effective trailer below.


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  • I saw a press screening of this movie Tuesday night. It's phenomenal. I'm already pissed that the director of Cloverfield has been signed on to direct a remake of this, which is in every way the exact opposite of Cloverfield - static well-framed shots, emotional poignancy, tenderness, slow deliberate pacing, Swedish, etc.
  • A vampire flick surrounding the one kid who didn't get cast in "The Village of the Damned"? That's got to be worth the price of the candy I'm going to buy. As for Matt Reeves, I'm thankful the rumored "Cloverfield" sequel is being shelved for now. There really is no reason to go back there. It's power and impression was based on its uniqueness, which is obviously gone if revisited. Let's see if he can prove to the movie watching audience he is not a one-hit, one-style wunderkid. (Please let this not become like the remake of "Insomnia"...PLEASE!)
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