LAZY HOLLYWOOD: Let the Right One In remake news

This probably infuriates me more than the useless [REC] remake, Quarantine. As much as I didn't hate Quarantine, it's existance is about as unwarranted as anything I've ever seen. [REC] was imaginative, refreshing, so unique to the zombie genre, and outright terrifying. Probably the scariest movie I've ever seen. It's release date was 23 November 2007 in Spain. So naturally, less than a year later, America produced what was essentially a shot-for-shot remake and released it for the Halloween crowds.

So why not take the beautiful and chilling Let the Right One In and copy-paste that into American cinema too? And in barely more than a year at that. This is lazy. Lazy Lazy Lazy! And Americans are lazy too. If you really want to enjoy EITHER of these movies ([REC] or Let the Right One In) then learn how to read subtitles and follow along at the same time. It's really not that difficult. Remakes of older movies are almost tolerable, but this is inexcusable.

Cloverfield director Matt Reeves is set to don the captain's hat for the more simply titled 'Let Me In', and seeing as they've already pulled the subtlety out of the title, I'm sure there'll be nothing left in the movie either. There were a few quotes in an interview with Matt for the LA Times that gave me a SLIGHT bit of hope that the movie would be watchable:

Reeves is also working with casting director Avy Kaufman to find the two leads, which Reeves vows will not be aged-up to make the film more of a smoldering "Twilight"-style romance.

Also mentioning that the film will be set in Reagan-Era Colorado, two of my main concerns were put a little bit at ease. Coupled with the director's "personal connection" to the story, I do have some sort of glimmer of hope somewhere inside me for this. But that doesn't make it one of the laziest film making choices this decade.

Hit the image above to head on over to the LA Times and read the whole article.