Let Me In
Let Me In is a 2010 romantic horror film written and directed by Matt Reeves. It is a remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In, which was based on the 2004 novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, and Richard Jenkins. The plot follows a bullied 12-year-old boy who befriends and develops a romantic relationship with a child vampire girl in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the early 1980s.
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| Screenplay by | Matt Reeves
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| Running time | 116 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $20 million
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| Box office | $24.1 million
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Abby: What do you mean?
Owen: Do you want to be my girlfriend?
Abby: Owen, I'm not a girl.
Owen: You're not a girl? What are you?
Abby: I'm nothing.
Owen: You know, it's ok if you don't want to be my girlfriend. You don't have to make stuff up.
Abby: Can't we just keep things the way they are?
Owen: Yeah, fine. Whatever.
- The word "vampire" is only said once in the film.
- Abby asks if Owen would still like her if she wasn't a girl. This is not only a reference to her being a vampire, but to the fact that, in the book, Abby (Eli) is actually a boy who was castrated at the same time that he was turned into a vampire.
- The candy, Now and Later, is a recurring object throughout the film. Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is consistently eating the candy and hiding the wrappers, the candy's theme song is what Owen is singing in his first and last scene, and Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz) writes her first note to Owen on a Now and Later wrapper.
- Copies of the film were sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to be screened on November 19, 2010. It was viewed on the last day of the Oscar screenings.
- Owen's voyeurism is a recurring theme in the film. He spies on his neighbors Jack and Virginia from his telescope, his neighbor who exercises at home, Abby and the father from the cracked door, Abby while she is changing clothes, the policeman from the peephole in Abby's apartment, and Kenny on several occasions, including when he is harassed by his brother in front of his friends. Note that nearly all subjects of Owen's voyeurism are murdered by Abby.
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