Of all the challenges in the moviemaking universe, redoing a beloved foreign film for an American audience would seem pretty low on the list. You already have the original as a head start, so going into the project you know what works, what doesn’t, and what should be tweaked for American sensibilities. Of course, as our ranking of the 15 worst American remakes of foreign films shows, sometimes those reboots don’t always come together in the way that studios and viewers would like.
Let Me In Let Me In bombed at the box office upon release in 2010, but it deserved so much better. Let’s break it down. Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist adapted his 2004 novel, Let The Right One In, into a chilling, moodily shot, surprisingly touching Swedish film of the same name . It centers on a human boy and a vampire child who form an unlikely friendship.