When I first heard that
Cloverfield director
Matt Reeves was going to be re-
making, no, re-
imagining, no, re-
doing, or re-whateverthehelling one of my favorite films, specifically horror films from 2008,
Låt den rätte komma in a.k.a.
Let The Right One In, I pretty much gave up on the Hollywood system. As interesting as the press for this film was, I told myself "Justin, you need to word-of-mouth this before you see it.", so I did what any
hard working lazy critic would do, go to
Metacritic and get an aggregate score of the film for myself, even though I am personally opposed to numerical scoring systems (which I'll go into at a later time). After giving the website skim and a week of mulling it over, I decided to take a trip to the theaters and witness what I thought wasn't possible, Reeves didn't make a good remake, he made a great one.
