I managed to miss the originally, but Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is remaking a European film I quite enjoyed.

He’s remaking Let The Right One In.Let’s just have a quote from that article.

An executive at Overture Films asked him to take a look at a then-unreleased Swedish horror film, “Let the Right One In,” a hauntingly touching film about a lonely 12-year-old boy who realizes the kind girl who moved in next door is a vampire.

“I was just hooked,” Reeves recalled recently. “I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.”

He saw a pre-screen of the original film, and decided he wanted to remake it. A pre-screen. The film wasn’t even in the bloody cinemas, and he decided he was going to remake it. You can’t really make it up. Where’s there to go to next – Hollywood putting out ‘re-imaginings’ before the original comes out?

Poster from IO9 after the break.

Nice to see they’ve kept the androgynous side to Eli by… putting her in tights. Nice one.

Let Me In poster.