“Let The Right One In” is a Swedish film that probably ranks among my top movies. It’s a highly romantic, charming film, that just happens to have a vampire as one of its central characters. The American version of this is in production with David Reeves, director of Cloverfield. Like many upcoming films, I’ve been bullish; with some new info coming out of that, I’m getting really excited:
“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 seems like he understands what makes this film special — the personal nature that pervades this film, not the vampire-genre tropes that are only a small part of the film.
(Via SlashFilm)