Let the Right One In… Remake, what goes on?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
I have an issue I need to discuss, pent up frustration I need to expel. I have tried to stay quiet, tried to understand but I won’t be silent anymore!
Dread Central posted an article which quotes the writer of the remake of Let The Right One In, Matt Reeves. Yes you read correctly the REMAKE of Let the Right One In! Last years haunting, evocative film, detailing the horror of a young adolescent boys (Oskar) encounter with a vampire (Eli) and the desperation and isolation of those around them. The film is acknowledged as an outstanding contribution to the horror body of work, has been given numerous accolades most recently a Saturn Award, also numerous film festival and critics awards (48 in total). The film was adapted from the book of the same name by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, also a quality addition to the horror genre.
Matt Reeves, of Cloverfield fame, speaks about the film having a profound impact on him, that he felt compelled to remake it? What goes on?
“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 then goes on to express his understanding that audieces are attached to the film and hopes they will give his remake a chance:
“I can understand because of people’s love of the [original] film that there’s this cynicism that I’ll come in and trash it, when in fact I have nothing but respect for the film. I’m so drawn to it for personal and not mercenary reasons, my feeling about it is if I didn’t feel a personal connection and feel it could be its own film, I wouldn’t be doing it. I hope people give us a chance.”
Reeves is apparently setting his film in Colorado, during the Regan years. Which I can understand may have been frustrating isolating times, but to compare or try to match the atmosphere of Sweden, mid winter in the eighties, the stillness, the darkness, I struggle to comprehend.
I struggle to comprehend the rationale for this remake at all. Let The Right One in was a piece of film making we haven’t seen in the horror genre for some time. A film that skillfully balanced atmospheric with psychological horror, whilst establishing an empathy for the monster, however also highlighting the monsters in our day to day lives. Why remake this film? Its beyond me.
Ms Harker
Remake! Eli is bleeding at the thought of it!
Tags: Horror, Horror Films, Vampire
Shane Acker’s 9, character posters revealed!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Animation, Horror Films
As the release date for Shane Acker’s animated feature ‘9′ edges ever closer (09.09.09), the wheels of the publicity machine are hitting full speed. FirstShowing have revealed a series of posters that show each of the nine characters and their purpose. The posters are stunning, boding well for the highly anticipated apocalyptic tale. Make sure you check out the website too. The site has some interactive activities and beautiful concept art; as well as some tidbits to the back story of the ‘experiment’.
I am so excited about this film, its nice to see some creative left of center animation heading to cinemas.
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Animation, Horror Films
Daybreakers… angry desperate vampires… plus Ethan.
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
During the week the teaser poster was released for the up coming vampire action flick ‘Daybreakers’. The film starring the ever blunted and often angsty Ethan Hawke, meat eater Sam Neil (joke for the Australian readers) and our favourite ‘man baring his arse in a tree’ Willem Dafoe. Thanks to Shock Til you Drop for spreading the word, as the new trailer has hit the web.
The story is set in the the year 2019:
A plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
The film appears to be quite the action based flick, guns, soldiers, long sticks that electrocute humans, much like you use with cattle, toasty! However the vampires in their original form look suitably Desmodus rotundus (Vampire Bat) like, their human forms look reasonable, however we only get flashes of them in the trailer. The plot itself is interesting, the idea of the vamps running out of their food source… sound familiar to anyone… ‘Do I have blood in my hair?’
May I also say I am enjoying the accompanying music, a cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up that Hill’ (no not Babooshka, calm down) via Placebo, but we can let the Placebo thing pass… for now.
Have a look and see if this gets your fangs tingling, it could be an enjoyable sanguinary rough and tumble, if Ethan grows a pair.
Ms Harker
Daybreakers
Tags: Horror, Horror Films, Vampire
