I am more than willing to give the remake of Let The Right One In the benefit of the doubt until I hear that I should not. So far everything I see and hear makes be believe that it will actually be good. The newest poster continues the trend of being spot on for creating something similar yet different and interesting in its own right. Sure, I think everyone should go see the original but that just will not happen so I will be content that the remake may be quite good in itself. I just found the new poster for it and while I was going to link to the site where I originally found it I decided not to because they watermarked it. Instead I’ll provide you with the link to the other site where I found it.
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So, I guess for this remake, they’re doing away with all the ambiguity surrounding Eli’s gender? For all the promotional material released thus far, Mortez has appeared as a far more obviously feminine figure than Lina Leandersson did in the original – right down to the name of the character.
With the bickering of new vs old around this movie, I’m getting more and more curious. I’m going to see “Let the Right One In” before watching this one. But then again, I often see scary movies for other reasons, such as Halloween cos I’m a Rob Zombie fan, Christine for the 1958 Plymouth Fury, 28 Weeks Later for Rose Byrne, etc.
Early reports are that the new movie is simply a grizzlier copy of a superior film. I think I’ll probably skip the remake. It seems as unnecessary as remake of Haneke’s Funny Games.