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2. "Were Going Back To The Source" - Matt Reeves On Let Me In
More recently remakes of foreign language hits grew and then became unanimously derided after a bunch of The Ring imitators, so for his English language remake of Let The Right One In (rushed out in less than two years) Matt Reeves played the readaptation card.
Unfortunately, one cracking car crash aside, he did little but copy much of the original's imagery, rather than find extra weight in the book.