10 Best Film Remakes Of All Time

Twilight wasn’t the only film making vampires into love interests. In the 2008 Swedish film Let The Right One In, an adaptation of a 2004 book, a bullied young boy meets a pale young girl who turns out to be a vampire, and together they work to conceal the girl’s identity while forging a strong romantic connection. It’s a graphic and disturbing film, praised for being genuinely horrifying amidst a climate of bland gore-fests like the Saw sequels.

Interest in making an English-language version of Let The Right One In was already expressed before the original film’s release, and after the high critical praise it received, the original’s director was asked if he would direct the English version too.

After he denied, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves was brought on, and the film he delivered shocked critics. With a small sprinkle of changes and two stellar actors, the movie equalled the horror of the original while still respecting the source. To this day the film is looked back on as a way to do remakes right.