Hot, or probably cold, on heels of its teaser trailer comes a first promo poster for Let Me In, Matt Reeves' New Mexico, also 1980-set remake of everyone's favourite Swedish vampire melodrama.
While not quite on a par with the Let The Right One In's frost-shrouded, Eli-sillouetted poster, the blood-stained sheet ice gives a suitably chilling feel (as well as a likely nod to a drained body discovered under the frozen lake we saw in the trailer).
For Eli, of course, read Abby, Chloe Moretz's wan vampire child, whose adult companion (Richard Jenkins) is presumably the man responsible for all that rhesus negative.
Reservations over the remake have been more than legion but the **Cloverfield **director is promising a respectful handling of Tomas Alfredson’s original and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s source novel. Reeves has already taken what could have been a hoary sub-Godzilla creature feature and forged it into something genuinely unsettling, so there's no reason to suggest he can't repeat the trick. He'll be going some to outdo Alfredson, but we'll be watching with interest firmly piqued.
That Hammer Films logo nestled in the corner is also worth noting. If there's one studio that knows all the about creeping the bejesus out of its audiences, it's the vamp-house that gave us Dracula.
Let Me In is out on October 29.
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