LET ME IN is a well-directed and engaging little story about a young and isolated boy who befriends what turns out to be a vampire girl. I admit to thoroughly enjoying it, not least thanks to the sterling work of CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves. I even enjoyed the performance of Chloe Grace Moretz, and I tend to find her largely overrated except in the likes of the KICK-ASS films. The main problem with LET ME IN is that it's a remake, and a remake of a film that had only been made a couple of years before. The Swedish version is lower budgeted but more atmospheric and better, purely because it's closer to the Swedish source material and more icy and disturbing. This Hollywood outing is slicker and eventful, and certainly worth a look, but as the original exists I have no wish to go back and rewatch it.
Review of Let Me In
