Tag: Let Me In

NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “LET ME IN” Vampires can’t see their own reflection in mirrors and, apparently, vampire actors have a hard time watching themselves on the screen. “The funny thing about ‘Let Me In,’ ” starlet Chloë Moretz says of the blood-sucker movie that has just landed on DVD and Blu-ray, “is that I scare myself when I watch the movie. I know where scary parts are, I know when she’s going to jump up, but I scream anyway. There’s this creepy little vampire girl, and I know she’s going to jump up but I still scream.” The Matt Reeves-directed “Let Me In” earned strong reviews but was a bit of a fizzle at the box office, but Moretz is hopeful that — like her other signature film, “Kick-Ass” — it will find a following on home video that gives the movie a longer shelf-life in ...

Michael Phillips reviews “Let Me In” for the Los Angeles Times: I’m a big, big fan of “Let the Right One In,” the chilling 2008 adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s bestseller about the pale female vampire who is “12 … more or less,” and whose budding friendship with a severely bullied boy living in the same apartment complex, with minimal parental supervision, leads to a gory confrontation with his tormentors. Now we have “Let Me In,” a shrewd American remake of the Swedish original. The action has been relocated to 1983 Los Alamos, N.M. Writer-director Matt Reeves, working in a very different key than his previous, bombastically scaled but juicy “Cloverfield,” has done a couple of interesting things with the story structure, creating a flashback that catches up to itself around the one-third point. In one instance he has improved ...

Steven Zeitchik, the lead writer of our sister blog 24 Frames digs into “Let Me in” and its undead heritage… In remaking the Swedish vampire cult hit ” Let the Right One In,” Matt Reeves put himself in a position as fraught as Dracula at high noon. Most people had never heard of the source material. And some of those who had — and could help him spread positive word — just wished the project would go away. Why attempt an English-language do-over, they asked, of a recent movie that was pretty much perfect in the first place? “I started writing the script for ‘Let Me In,’ and then ‘Let the Right One In’ got big in the U.S. I thought, ‘Oh no, there’s going to be a lot more focus on this now,’ ” said Reeves, the “Cloverfield” director ...

The Times’ Fall Movie Sneaks came out Sunday, and among the articles is this piece by 24 Frames’ Steven Zeitchik on the upcoming film “Let Me In.”     Even though he decided to tackle the English-language remake of “Let the Right One In” long before the Swedish vampire movie became a cult favorite in the U.S., Matt Reeves was aware of the hurdle facing him. “It suddenly got very big, and I thought, ‘There’s going to be a lot more focus.’ It was terrifying.” As it turned out, Reeves rose to the challenge. Resisting the temptation to overly Americanize the dark preadolescent romance, Reeves kept the two protagonists’ ages roughly the same as in Tomas Alfredson’s original and retained a Gothic, snowy locale. In the process, the “Cloverfield” director created a kind of spiritual companion to the first movie. ...