LET ME IN trailer looks like just another vampire movie

LET ME IN trailer looks like just another vampire movie

Jul 02

2008′s Let The Right One In stood out as a must-watch horror film that delivered the kind of storytelling I’d prefer to see happening in the genre. It was a perfectly crafted film from start to finish, masterfully paced, performed and directed. It was a breath of fresh air in a genre that has lost its way and become predictably stale… But Let The Right One In didn’t come from Hollywood. It came from Sweden… and it had subtitles. It wasn’t long before a Hollywood remake was announced.

Now, with the arrival of the first trailer for the remake, most of my suspicions have been realised.

Dumbed down for Western audiences, Let Me In is clearly geared toward the Twilight market, or those who prefer to see mainstream horror movies where people speak English and the title on the poster has a grunge font. There’s the inclusion of horrendous popular rock music and that ridiculous fade-out, fade-in, fade-out, fade-in trailer technique that makes Let Me In look horribly like just another vampire movie. Which, I have no doubt, is exactly what they were aiming for.

Let Me In is due to be released 1 October in the States. It’ll be on Australian screens before the end of the year, but no specific date has been announced yet.

Let Me In, tells a terrifying tale about an alienated 12-year old boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Oscar® nominee Richard Jenkins). A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.