LET ME IN - 2010
EFTI, Hammer Film Productions, Overture Films
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Overture Films just announced that their fixed release date for LET ME IN is October 2010. This will be wide theatrical release and since this is a Vampire Horror tale, it's nice to see another studio understanding that October would be a pretty good time to release a Horror film.
LET ME IN, is a remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, based upon the novel, LET ME IN by John Ajvide Lindqvist (also wrote the screenplay for LET THE RIGHT ONE IN).
Writing and Directing the American remake is Matt Reeves (CLOVERFIELD). Shooting is underway in New Mexico and the film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE ROAD), Chloe Moretz (THE AMITYVILLE HORROR [2005], ROOM 6), and Elias Koteas (THE PROPHECY, APT PUPIL, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, THE FOURTH KIND).
Melanie of Mammoth sent me this,
Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) 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.
When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.
The gifted cast of Let Me In takes audiences straight to the troubled heart of adolescent longing and loneliness in an astonishing coming-of-age story based on the best-selling Swedish novel Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, and the highly-acclaimed film of the same name.
It's rare that Hollywood remakes a foreign horror movie that already stars white people. THE VANISHING (1993) and QUARANTINE (2008) are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Despite the auto-pilot knee jerk reaction of many against remakes, I'm interested in seeing where this leads. While I enjoyed LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, it was needlessly slow. Matt Reeves has been itching to do another Horror movie since CLOVERFIELD, and this just might be something cool!
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