
Opening a week from tomorrow is Matt Reeves’ LET ME IN, the quietly seductive reimagining of Swedish predecessor LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. It’s one of many to kick off what should be a splendid October, perhaps even being the most satisfying genre flick to be come out during everyone’s favorite horror month (time will tell on that). Anyway, Mr. Walksuski gave y’all a peek at an exclusive Fantastic Fest poster for Reeves’ redo yesterday, and now we have yet another chilling one-sheet for LET ME IN.
What strikes me about the new poster is the expression in the little girl’s eyes. Soulful, melancholic, charged with longing…the same kind of emotions we all found beauty in from the original. You see what I’m sayin’, right?
Twelve-year old Owen, who is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father. A frail, troubled child about Owens’s age, Abby emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two have formed a unique bond.
When a string of grisly murders puts the town on high alert, Abby’s father disappears, and the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she repeatedly rebuffs Owen’s efforts to help her and her increasingly bizarre behavior leads the imaginative Owen to suspect she’s hiding an unthinkable secret.
LET ME IN opens October 1st.












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