Young Owen lives with his religious mother in an apartment complex in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He is a quiet child, bullied at school, he sits in the snow covered playground of the complex at night waiting for dinner and spies on the neighbours through his telescope from his bedroom. One night he sees a man and a young girl move into the next apartment and later he meets her in the playground. Eventually they befriend each other and spend the evenings talking or tapping on the wall in Morse code, but Abby isn't what she seems. Something evil is in her, a lust for blood and after some bungled attempts by her 'father', Abby takes matters into her own hands. Owen meanwhile continues to get bullied, but encouraged by Abby suddenly fights back, but this leads the bullies wanting further revenge which leads to horrific outcome.
Let Me In is the American remake of the the brilliant Swedish horror Let The Right One In. It is for the most part an exact remake, albeit in a new setting and the film's plot changes slightly. There are however some major differences, one being the style; in the Swedish version the style is almost abstract with it's camera angles and stylized use of colour, the American one is more standard. Abby also is slightly different, being cleaner than her Swedish version and when feeding becomes more evil in appearance with deathly eyes staring into the camera. Yet there is little of note worthy change hear, the bullies are still nasty, there is still a touching moving element to Abby and Owens friendship and the film still holds a punch in certain scenes, although one noticeable scene missing is the cat lady and the cats going berserk.
It is difficult to watch this and not compare the two films, they both stand out as great pieces of work and both are fine examples of the vampire genre movie that is firmly miles away from the Twilight type stories. Yet perhaps if you have viewed the Swedish version, it's difficult to watch this and not know what's coming, it doesn't have the element of surprise unless you view this first. Whilst it is a good film, it also doesn't seem to match the original for style and direction with the Swedish version being a far superior film that presents a far more involving and emotional yet beautiful and fascinating story.
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Let Me In is the American remake of the the brilliant Swedish horror Let The Right One In. It is for the most part an exact remake, albeit in a new setting and the film's plot changes slightly. There are however some major differences, one being the style; in the Swedish version the style is almost abstract with it's camera angles and stylized use of colour, the American one is more standard. Abby also is slightly different, being cleaner than her Swedish version and when feeding becomes more evil in appearance with deathly eyes staring into the camera. Yet there is little of note worthy change hear, the bullies are still nasty, there is still a touching moving element to Abby and Owens friendship and the film still holds a punch in certain scenes, although one noticeable scene missing is the cat lady and the cats going berserk.
It is difficult to watch this and not compare the two films, they both stand out as great pieces of work and both are fine examples of the vampire genre movie that is firmly miles away from the Twilight type stories. Yet perhaps if you have viewed the Swedish version, it's difficult to watch this and not know what's coming, it doesn't have the element of surprise unless you view this first. Whilst it is a good film, it also doesn't seem to match the original for style and direction with the Swedish version being a far superior film that presents a far more involving and emotional yet beautiful and fascinating story.
More of my reviews at iheartfilms.weebly.com