Let Me In

All right, its Hollywood remake time. What a dirty word that gets everyone’s panties in a bunch. Let the Right One In was a fantastic Swedish vampire movie that took advantage of the vampire craze by actually making falling in love with a vampire as creepy and fricked up as it should be. Let Me In was in no way a disappointment and in fact made some improvements to the original.

Let Me In was anchored by 2 child actors who completely delivered and carried the movie. It will never happen, but Chloe Moretz should get some sort of acknowledgement as maybe the best actress of 2010. She follows up Hit-Girl with Abby and just does a grown woman’s work once again. Ah child actors being amazing then making us hold our breath as we wonder what will happen when they get older. Whereas Hit-Girl just chewed scenery, Abby was very still and calm with violent bursts. Now Kodi Smit-McPhee follows up the joyride of The Road with another turn at the disturbing. I’m kind of sad that they took away the albino aspect of the character, but Owen lived just as sad a life as the original version. I do find it amusing the bullies were so damn violent in order to set the stage for their comeuppance. Bloody bloody comeuppance.

Let Me In is just the right amount of twisted. It never went for the cheap scares while at the same time it never pulled back from the horrific scenes that were occurring. All of Abby’s feedings were just crazy violent with quick editing to make her seem supernatural. And those weren’t the only murders, everything Richard Jenkins did was just creepy as all hell. While the climatic scene was just a thing of bloody beauty. This is the type of horror movie that I'm a fan of. Any movie that makes the murder of children such an uplifting moment can take my ten dollars just for being willing to tell that story.

Its sad that Let Me In made about fifty seven dollars at the box office, while another Saw movie came out and cashed in. Damn you American viewing public.

9 out of 10