Not a surprise, but so do I.  Apparently, the powers that be are running low on 1980s slasher films to rip off, and are stretching their reach out to Europe to steal material and outright kick originality in the crotch.  In EW's Popwatchers section today,  Margaret Lyons holds out little hope for the remake of the critically lauded LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, with its shift in location from the snowy desolation of Europe to the mesas of New Mexico and its change in title to LET ME IN.  And her picture of the new kids playing the roles (which I'll include below) can't help the validity of the project, even if she does compliment the choice of one of them.

As for my own thoughts, I've seen the original and thought it was something daring and new.  But if Matt Reeves, he of CLOVERFIELD, attempts to make this basically a dry version of the European, as QUARANTINE did with [REC], this sequel will be redundant.  It's a sad statement when American horror is now thieving quality, artistic genre films from overseas instead of developing quality ideas of their own.  Where our next John Carpenter or George Romero comes from may take many years to find out.

Read Lyons' original article here. 

--Phil Fasso