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Let the Right One In American Remake Planned For 2010

By Angela Pham on 9:20 AM on July 1, 2009

Before the critical favorite Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In was even released last year, a director was already contemplating creating an American version. That director, Matt Reeves of Cloverfield fame, has already completed a second draft of his script, and the film, to be titled Let Me In, is already set for a fall 2010 release.... read more

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Let The Right One In encounters DVD controversy

By Muriel Vega on 3:45 PM on March 27, 2009

Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In DVD release has encountered some very angry customers. The DVD version shows drastically different subtitles than the subtitles shown in theaters, often missing the dark humor that made the movie so popular. The Swedish adaptation was screened in less than 50 theater screens and became available on March 10 on DVD via Magnolia/Magnet.... read more

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The 13 Best Scary Movies of the Past 13 Years

By Sean Edgar and Jen Wilson on 10:59 AM on October 31, 2008

[Above: Lina Leandersson as Eli in Let the Right One In]There's no better time than Halloween to get closer to a loved one as promiscuous teenagers get slaughtered by a masked boogeymen or the netherworld wreaks psychological mayhem on our favorite actors and actresses. And while Hitchcock, Price, Carpenter, Craven and Cronenberg are undeniable masters of projecting our collective fears on the wide screen, it's time to honor some modern masters of celluloid terror. Here are our picks for the 13 best scary movies of the past 13 years. What are yours?... read more

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Catching Up With... Tomas Alfredson

By Steve Dollar on 3:30 PM on October 24, 2008

Director Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In has been the talk of the film-festival circuit for months—the “Swedish vampire movie” that has transfixed audiences with its keenly attenuated evocation of adolescent loneliness and budding first love in... read more

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Sitges Film Festival 2008: The Good, The Bad, The Weird

By Steve Dollar on 1:00 PM on October 23, 2008

[Above: Lina Leandersson in Let the Right One In]Another 10 days at the world’s leading festival for fantastic cinema have come to a close. All the extraterrestrials have phoned home. And the zombies are in repose until next October. Despite very late nights drinking with actors, filmmakers, distributors and programmers from Finland, Colombia, Korea, Japan, Ireland, Australia, France, Canada, New York and, of course, Spain, I managed to see 23 or 25 or 27 movies, often sleeping on my feet, so that the whole experience began to feel like an endless reel.... read more

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