Two years later, Cloverfield director and future Planet of the Apes helmer Matt Reeves remade the film, keeping the early 1980s setting but transferring events from Stockholm to winter New Mexico. Alfredson’s chillingly atmospheric film of the same name retained much of the traditional vampire lore of popular culture, but developed and altered it in some fascinating ways as well as providing a new perspective on pre-teen emotional processing and relationships. In 2008, Tomas Alfredson burst onto the international stage with his striking film adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s 2004 vampire novel “Let The Right One In”/”Låt den rätte komma in”. But that doesn’t stop us going over them with a fine tooth comb to try and put one out in front of the other in this edition of Original vs Remake. Swedish coming-of-age horror Let the Right One In and its American remake Let Me In could be argued as extreme rarities in that they both ended up being rather exceptional films. American remakes of acclaimed world cinema films might be abundant, but very rarely are they as satisfying as the originals. English-language takes on Train to Busan, Toni Erdmann and Another Round have all been in development in recent years. It sometimes seems like whenever original ideas run dry, Hollywood turns to the untapped (from the average Joe’s perspective) well of talent to be found in world cinema. original debate is a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the film industry.

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