"Would you still love me even if I wasn’t a girl?"
Let Me In is an American remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In, which itself is a film adaptation of the 2004 Swedish novel of the same name. All three stories share the same concept: a bullied young boy befriends and starts a relationship with a weird girl who moved in next door to him. Little does the young boy know is that the weird girl has super strength, wall climbing abilities, and a thirst for blood.
The film started off already in the middle of the film (if that makes sense) then went back to two weeks earlier. Everything basically stayed the same based on the original (I’ve never read the novel) but changed some minor things. One major thing the writers did change was the backstory on the girl. In this film her name is Abby.
Abby, in the original film and novel, was a boy in her human life and was castrated and turned into a vampire. In the original film, there’s scene where Abby is changing and her vagina is shown, or at least where it should be. This whole background was omitted from the film which changed the actual meaning of the quote above, which has a double meaning if you read it carefully.
The film was amazing and featured the best car crash scene in movie history. What I loved is the misguiding genre; it’s not necessarily a horror film, or a romance film, and I can’t piece together what it actually is but it is good. You probably are straining away from vampire films but you can’t stay away from this. Although it might disappoint fans of the original, it’s still a breakthrough nonetheless and will grasp the attention of any newcomer to this franchise. I give it a 4 out of 5 and it’s out now in theaters.
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