Let Me In - okay, curiousity got the better of me and I checked this one out for a lark. Hammer Films, huh? Now that's a name I haven't heard in ages. It's structured more like a traditional horror film, with a detective and the caretaker looking more like a bogeyman. Also emphasises the vampire's feral sides whereas the original is ambivalent whether she really is a vampire or just suffers from porphyria. And thx for making the boy androgynous and a pervert and a thief and a coward. Now I CAN really emphatise with him. The girl's more of a girl. The bullies are more menacing although the lead bully looks like a young Brian Wilson.

The sequencing of events is changed and there is further elaboration of the plot. I don't like the colour scheme - colourful and saturated whereas the original was heavily contrasted greys. The music also tries too hard to evoke an atmosphere of horror whereas the original's just dangles ambiently. Recommended if you haven't seen the original but not really if you have. Makes me more depressed than the original, though. File under "B" for "Bloody unnecessary remakes". 6/10