Although I understand the reason for the remake, in america, I still can't help being annoyed by it! There are so many vampire and horror movies coming out of hollywood, and most are terrible! In sweden, it's such a rare genre. Over here we pretty much get thrillers about cops investigating murder-scenes. There have been 2 big vampire movies in sweden, "Frostbite" and "Let the right one in". The latter was fantastic I think, just amazing! But "Frostbite" falls pretty much flat because of one single factor : It tries to be a hollywood movie! That type of filmmaking doesn't work with social themes in sweden, it just looks fake! "Let the right one in" is a true and faithful representation of sweden in the late 70s and early 80s, and it's themes still have some relevance today. But like many others I think, that a remake of the movie will just turn out like all the other vampire-teen-flicks that hollywood produces. And THAT is a sad thing!

Are we (Americans as an audience) really this stupid? We can't read some subtitles? Instead we would rather see a watered-down version/remake? A la Quarantine? The Ring (which I hated), Pulse, this list can go on for quite a while. Fuck all of you. Read a book once in a while. I hate the American audience. You ruin everything./

FUCK THE BOX OFFICE! MONEY SUCKS> TAKE NOTE FROM HEATH'S JOKER.

I will beat Matt Reeves with a wet shoe.

It's so sad to see that money out ranks art now. And that other Americans are too lazy to read subtitles.

"The movie and the book are incredibly Swedish"...What is he talking about? It does take place in Sweden and I often had to flip back a few pages to figure out who's who, with names like Gosta, Lacke, Ginja and Hakan. Did he read some secret "really Swedish" version of the book? It's more than a simple love/horror story. If I want that crap I'll see Twilight.

i LOVE "Let the Right One In" (especially the swimming pool scene at the end..WOW!). i'm not against remakes but i just don't see THIS remake (i could totally be wrong) keeping the 'intimate' and sweet and STRANGE relationship/friendship between Eli & Oskar intact and like it was in the original.

Who the hell is this fucker? He say's "I think it could be a toching haunting terrifying film." What the hell does he think the original is? It is as close to flawless as it gets. It is a beautiful sublime horror film and the pool scene is unequaled for originality. Possibly the mosy creative since Suspiria. Fuck this guy and all those pretending to give a shit when it's really all about the money. I'm sick of remakes. When i heard they were remaking Suspiria my head exploded like the guy in Scanners.

It wont work because most american kid actors are annoying as fuck.

Remakes are annoying as f***. By the way i have the talent of reading and in 11 days i will be using this ability which i have honed over this ever so long life to support the original "Let The Right One In". matt reeves this is so not cool.

I wasn't against the idea of the remake (though I thought it unnecessary) until now. His talking about how it's incredibly Swedish, and him taking the story on as a fantasy rather than reality is extremely telling, and makes it clear that he's a horrible choice to remake it.

milkman is right - there is no need to remake this movie, it's all about making money. Anyone involved in the remake needs to remember that there's nothing to be proud of in working on a remake of a movie like Let The Right One In. What a waste of time.

“Overture wants it as soon as possible." Pretty much sums up their whole attitude.

It's incredibly depressing that Americans would rather spend millions upon millions of dollars in a struggling economy to produce a poor imitation of a film rather than... read. This culture is in trouble. And this guy sounds like a horrible choice.

Everyone is complaining about remakes yet I bet most of you still go and see them anyway. I don't like the majority of them [Quarantine for example was just god awful]so I don't support them at the theatre or by renting them. Boygot people boygot. If they don't make money they will go away.

“It’s a terrific movie and a fantastic book. I think it could be a really touching haunting and terrifying film. I’m really excited about what it could be.” that is a ridiculous line. really. it is, in fact, already a really touching, haunting, and terrifying film. it is very unlikely that a stateside remake will achieve the same beauty, serenity, and unease as the original. they won't be as daring, or will ruin it by TRYING to be too daring. plus, i can't see them matching the performances. more than all that the true point is this: just come up with your own goddamn new ideas and make something new and interesting out of those! this is worse than remaking an old classic, and seemingly unique to the generally shit-tastic (as of late) American film industry. think if a critically acclaimed yet non-mainstream band i liked just wrote, recorded, and released a great new album. what would people think of me if i just took all those songs, recorded them myself, and called them my own? hopefully that i was an un-original bastard.

I dont pay a single penny to see remakes of this nature. Honestly if someone wanted to invest the kind of marketing as say, oh I dont know, Twilight or R.Z.'s Halloween then I bet more then a couple of people will show up.

The film didn't amaze me like it seemed to amaze everyone else. It is a very good film full of great, sympathetic characters and strong performances (especially from the young cast), but the book is so much better. The film to me felt rushed and short (even at 105-minutes) and it didn't flow as well as you would expect either. Maybe it did not help that I read the book a week or so before watching the film (so obviously I was comparing the two throughout and finding the book to have more depth and development of the characters).

Maybe they didnt know Quarantine was a remake because REC never got a fucking release. Which the studio kept buried on purpose, for that very reason. Now Dreamworks is doing the same thing with Paranormal Activity. It's bullshit, and so is this remake.

Being Swedish I think the only way to do a remake of this is to put the movie aside and write the script based on the book and solely on the book. There's things in the book that I was disappointed they left out and one of the things is the paedophile angle of Håkan's relationship to Eli. But then again...the movie is fantastic so I haven't got much to complain about there. But for the remake I think the should do their own interpretation of the book and not the movie/script. That will not happen though.

datapata, unfortunately American movies dislike dealing w/ "uncomfortable" topics such as pedophelia. i agree w/ what you said but if anything, this remake will probably amp up the gore/vampire/kills angle and skip the subtle, sad and beautiful tone of the original.

Matt Reeves is an idiot.. He just doesn't understand it.

Let me just say to anyone who reads this; if you can't handle movies with subtitles - start to learn to handle them. I couldn't do foreign films for the longest time either. But once I got over that it opened up a whole new world of cool movies that I never knew where out there. Let The Right One In is amazing. Best to see the real thing and not a remake - something is always lost in translation. Do you think if some other country made a remake of Pulp Fiction that it would be as good?

You're probably right djblack1313. Sad but true. And to the ones pointing out the subtitles factor, I just don't get what the problem is. People learn to read for a reason - use the skill. But then again people nowadays are lazier than ever so it's not that big a surprise. People want things served on a plate.

If Matt Reeves is excited about what it could be, then I feel sorry for him. Best off, be excited for what it IS. My favourite film of 2008. Please don't rape it.