already thinking of remaking it, you know what, i have now had it with remakes, stop please, god, people are so dumb sometimes

sometimes?

Saw this film on the gothenburg film festival here in sweden, and it's really good! Very atmospheric and it keeps the serious tone all the way through, which (sadly) "Frostbite" did not. But the whole appeal of the movie, i think, is the swedish setting, it's so different here. Basing the story in america will make it turn out as "just another vamp-teen-movie". The only good that can come out of this, is the fact that if it sucks, more people will look up the original and watch that instead!

I loved the book and am excited about the movie. But you have to realise that this movie is still making its rounds at the festival(s). It hasn't even opened mainstream theatrically yet, and already a studio is chomping at the bit for remake rights? You've gotta be shitting me. But these people who are remaking and botching all these interesting foreign films are slapping themselves in the forehead and saying "Damn, I wish I could've been the one to have made this story." Remakes are generally just a way for filmakers with no new ideas to steal someone else's better idea without committing outright plagiarism. Very few remakes are truly an actual artistic reenvisioning of the previous story.