With
Let Me In, writer/director Matt Reeves has created a modern horror classic… or rather, he has taken a modern horror classic in the foreign market and domesticated it, with honor, respect and ingenuity. Working from the 2008
Let the Right One In foundation established by novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist and director Tomas Alfredson, Reeves’ film is on the forefront of what could be (with the Dragon Tattoo remakes hot on its heels) a discouraging new trend in Hollywood cinema – the appropriation of still breathing foreign films, recreated for American audiences. Except it is not discouraging. It is, in fact, refreshing, in its own bloody and unsettling way.
