10 Horror Movie Remakes Better Than You Remember
5. Let Me In (2010)
Matt Reeves now is one of the most respected filmmakers in Hollywood. In charge of the upcoming The Batman and helming the last two Planet of the Apes movies, he's become a reliable blockbuster filmmaker, but it would be wrong to overlook the horror movies on which he honed his craft.
His most popular effort from that period is of course Cloverfield, but his remake of Let The Right One In, titled this time around as Let Me in, was also a smart, effective horror.
The movie, all about a young lad befriending a couple-hundred year-old vampire trapped in the body of a teenager, came only a few years after the original's soaring success, and thus was written off as being redundant.
And in a way, that's not untrue. Hollywood has a bad habit of remaking foreign-language movies seemingly only in order to present them to an audience without subtitles, rather than to give its own take on a story, but that doesn't make Let Me In any less impressive in its own right.
Reeves and co. made some alterations to the story as well as adapting elements from the book that were dropped for the original film version, and it all contributes to a vampire thriller that's far more original than it's given credit for.