The first images – and an interview with director Matt Reeves – from horror remake Let Me In have hit the ‘net this weekend.
First to arrive was this initial image of Chloe Moretz (better known as Kick-Ass’ Hit Girl) appearing at a glass door as Abby, the distinctly creepy young girl at the heart of the story.
Reeves, meanwhile, acknowledges the uphill battle he has with purists who love (not without damn good reason) the Swedish original, Let The Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson, which finds an outcast suburban lad named Oskar having his world changed by Eli. She seems like an ordinary, if slightly offbeat girl... but she's hiding a dark vampiric secret.
Going back to the source material (John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel) and tackling a new version might seem an unlikely way to follow up Cloverfield, but Reeves is quick to point out that the new film will be very different from the creature feature.
"I think because of Cloverfield, people have an assumption, which is, 'Oh, crazy handicam, he's going to jazz it up,'" he tells The LA Times. "And I think that's probably what a lot of people were afraid of when they thought of the most cynical version. And that's the last thing we tried to do. We tried to create the approaching, foreboding dread of movies like The Shining, where you feel like something wicked is unravelling and it's not going to end well. That's what I responded to about the original, the juxtaposition of those tones, this very disturbing story but at the centre of it there are these very tender emotions. That's a very unusual mix, and that's what drew me in and dug into me."[
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Let Me In stars Moretz, The Road’s Kodi Smit-McPhee (as the boy, here named Owen) and Richard Jenkins as Abby’s guardian. The jury’s out as to whether it can live up to the original, but we’ll find out when the film is released on 29 October.