Let Me In trailer: a vampire remake that doesn't suck?

Really? Hrm. Interesting. And people say this website is just a waste of space. Okay, it's just me who says that.

That reminds me that JAL has written a short story sequel to LTROI. It's called Let The Old Dreams Die and from what little I've read it's set about 20 years later and deals more with the community that was left behind.

bringing it back to the ook for a minute, just read a synopsis of Lindqvist's next, due September, harbour:

It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja's toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone - or something - is trying to communicate with him. Soon enough, his return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the remote island and the sea.

Sounds really generic, but is it going to do for ghosts and spooky kids what Let the Right One in did for vampires and Handling the Undead did for zombies..?

I was willing to believe this looked like ok until they showed that brief shot of a CGI Eli jumping onto a tree - it reminded me of a similarly fake moment in Daredevil.

And while the actual clips look like they are trying at least to keep the tone of the original, the music and in-yer-face Cloverfield credits might as well be taken from a trailer for F1N4L D3ST1N4T10N.

I don't have much hope.

I shall spew forth on subjects I know next to nothing about with absolute certainty in my correctness.
It's my god-given right as an internet movie obsessive.

And trailers are designed to make you moist, and that just made me angry.
Mind you, least there were no puffy coats in it....*watches again*...haaaang on

I will say, if the scene where *zombie Hakan turns up sporting a giant boner* is included, I'll eat my hat.

Let's reserve final judgement for the film, shall we? Trailer looks okay to me but I've got no doubt a US version will plane off some of the rougher edges in the original/book. I see nothing of Twilight in this whatsoever.

Also, I think "I need blood to live" actually is a line from the book. Might be wrong though. They are kids and do tend to talk like them remember.

But she's a vampire! And she doesn't sparkle! And she needs blood....y'know, to survive.
And she attacks random people in underpasses!
And she...er...climbs trees really fast!

I think instead of a vampire, they should have had a terrorist.
And instead of Oskar, they should have had The President Of The United States of Awesome.
And instead of a plot, they should have had CGI natural disaster effects.

*shrugs*
Let Me In is about as intelligent and thought provoking as one of Emmerich's "WORLD ENDS WITH DIGITAL ASSCANERY"

Can I just point out some more utter stupidity. The text in the titles

"In a quiet town among ordinary people something wicked lives"

Epic fail. Just epic. So this evil then? That wouldn't happen to be one of your main characters then? Y'know, the people the audience are supposed to relate to, and who, now you're not focusing on anyone else, you've based the entire film on.
Unbelievable! What's with this obsession of having to have a bad guy/girl.

It's like a 12yr old watched Let The Right One In, and then was asked what she (for t'would be a tubby goth) would like to change to make it appeal to retarded people.

That trailer..."I need blood...to survive"
*facepalms*
Really? Thanks for spelling it out, I totally didn't know that and needed reminding in a trailer so I'll go watch 'cos Twilight is, like, totally awesome!!!
Go Team Gay Werewolf!!!!!

Let this sink like the turd it shall be.

*Apparently there is a photo in this film showing a younger Hakan and Eli,* totally ruining any possible discussion about what happens after, essentially portraying Eli as a parasite and doing away with all backstory.

Apparently the mask? That's Haken that is, he wears it when he goes collecting for Eli. He hides in the backs of cars etc and JUMPS!!!! out at people, rather than being the crap, tired old man.

I get the impression this remake is going to be Twilight-ed and be de-fanged.
And I think Oskar is a quiet, nebbish kid who'd like to kill the bullies but doesn't have the guts to. Which is why he has a "pissball" and likes Eli - she's as much a quiet freak as he.

Fuck this remake, didn't expect anything different from "The director of Cloverfield" to be honest.

It's more a morbid fascination he has with death, I never got the feeling he was capable of it himself at all.

No, no, no. That wasn't Lindqvist's intention at all. (*snort*)

Oskar is a tree-stabbing, hand-slashing, newpaper murder headline collecting nutjob. I would say he's somewhat beyond being a normal kid at the start of the film. Not 1 step away from murder but maybe 2 or 3.
By the end of the film he's less crazy but he still lets Lacke find Eli, shouts her name and then closes the door. You could argue that 2 ways. Either he's personally rejecting violence or he's accepting the way it is and willingly turning a blind eye, when just before he'd been questioning Eli.

Stabbing a tree doesn't make him a potential murderer, and neither does carrying a knife. It just makes him feel important. Childish posturing. Who didn't fantasise about sticking one over on the bullies when they were a kid? Doesn't mean they'd actually do it.

Oskar is a little unhinged, or at least gets that way throughout the book (burning the desk etc) but I don't remember ever thinking he was one step away from murder.

Looks gorgeous, but some familiar shots there.

I have doubts the ambiguous gender is going to be touched on. Moretz is a girl, plain and simple. I also doubt American audiences would appreciate the gut punch when you find out the truth about Eli.

Still, I'll watch it to see what it's like. At least they didn't make the kids 17 or 18.

I doubt It'll have none of the restraint or emptiness of the original though, but I'll be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong.

[edit] Are people complaining about lack of blood? I can't remember LTROI being a complete gorefest.

Oh, "Oskar isn't a potential murderer, is he?" I think both the book and original were implying that he's one step removed from doing the bullies. Stabbing the tree, carrying the knife and posing in front of the mirror (dunno where the mask has sprang from though) but Eli makes him stand up for himself in a different way when he cracks the lad over his head.

[edit2] Just read an Aintitcool review that describes the opening scenes, the Haken charcter changes, and the gender issue is totally brushed aside.

It's going to be toothless (pun intended). Fuck that.

Edited at 06:59 on 02/07/10

Oskar isn't a potential murderer, is he? At least, not until maybe the final shot of the film - and that's taking a leap. The character is doe-eyed and innocent, that's his problem. He's naive and over-imaginative. I dunno, I just don't like this Kodi kid. He was good in The Road but I can see 'acting' all over his face. He's got a touch of the Dakota Fanning about him.

Chloe Moretz is pretty awesome, think she looks the part. Wonder if they'll touch on her ambiguous gender, as she does look quite boyish.

Looks like the same movie I watched just a few weeks ago, only shittier.
The girl that played Eli in the original was perfect. That's what I imagine a 200+ year old vampire trapped in a 12 year old girl's* body would look like. Give her some English lessons and put her in the new version. I have a feeling she isn't busy.

Yeah I'm reading them now and I'm not liking what I'm hearing. The same phrases keep cropping up "Shot for shot remake" "Lack of blood" "Focus is entirely on Abby and Owen" "Matt Reeves isn't brave enough"
I've watched that trailer 4 or 5 times now and the two leads just do not look right. Kodi looks too doe-eyed and innocent to portral a potential murderer and nothing about Chloe says hundreds of years old and a killing machine.

I've read two reviews and they haven't been kind.

I hate to admit this because I've been hating at this film for the last year but it's increasingly looking like it might not be awful.
I find this unacceptable because of the sheer bloody arrogance and pointlessness of remaking a film for people who are too thick to read. I desperately want to hate this film for what it represents. If people start coming up to me and telling me to watch this brilliant vampire film, I might just have to kill them.

Oh and that trailer makes it look like an exact copy of the original, except for the bizarre mask. Who the hell was that supposed to be? Vampy Hakan or Oskar fucking around?

Edited at 21:11 on 01/07/10