1. Let Me In
Let the Right One In, Let Me In's original Swedish counterpart was a masterful display of emotion and growing horror and simply one of the best films in the year it was released. It received universal acclaim and a healthy box-office return meaning Hollywood was always going to come leering after it as there is no great horror movie safe from corporate America. Let the Right One In is a subtle movie about genuine people who just happen to be vampires whilst Let Me In is a commercial venture about vampires who occasionally show habits associated with human beings. Directed by Tomas Alfredson, one of the great budding talents of world cinema, Let the Right One In was the first genuine horror masterpiece in years and barely two years later it's legacy was tainted by a film that doesn't even attempt to do anything interesting, it just copies the template of the original and falls down in every aspect. Let Me In was a film nobody asked for and nobody wanted. It's as redundant as cinema gets because it's so inherently pointless and the product of boardroom calculators, which makes it even more funny that it bombed at the box-office. In fact the only reason it seems to exist is because movie studios think people are too dumb to read subtitles.