Director Matt Reeves knows exactly what a daunting task he has ahead of him creating 'LET ME IN'. After helming the inventive disaster adventure "Cloverfield," Reeves built up the Hollywood cred to buy himself some breathing room for his tale of childhood alienation, improbable yet vital friendship and, yep, the bloodsucking undead. But how do you re-create a film that many fans and critics alike already consider perfect?...

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In terms of whether Let Me In is a remake or re-imagining? "It's very much an Americanization of the tale that John Ajvide Lindqvist (writer of both the novel and screenplay) tells."

"One of the things I really wanted to do was find my own way into the story while still being very, very reverent to the beautiful film and to the wonderful story that they created," explains Reeves. "And so the story in many ways follows the same trajectory. I really wanted to put you, even more so, into the point of view of the boy and understand his childhood as vividly as it comes across in the book."

When inevitably pressed to compare this film to the "Twilight" juggernaut he has this to say.

I think that it has obviously really touched a nerve and tapped into a very, very deep vein. To me, the thing about genre stories that is the most interesting thing is what you do with the metaphor of the genre. You can do a grand, sweeping love story, like "Twilight," and use that metaphor of the two people that are just being torn apart and the aching-ness of it, and that's a great fantasy. I think that what people respond to in "Twilight" is the fantasy of it. It's such a grand, romantic fantasy, and in a way, the reason why I think there is room for a film like ours is, though it's a vampire film, it uses it in such a different way. Whereas "Twilight" is kind of a fantasy, this will be a darker, scarier kind of journey. Obviously, "True Blood" is also really big these days too, and that's a different thing using the sexual side. I think it's really about what sort of emphasis the story takes and how you use the metaphor. The amazing thing about genre films is the way to smuggle in different kinds of themes and things worthy of exploration. I think what so struck me about this story is that what it is exploring is so different and so real.

J.J. Abrams mentioned something very brief and vague last week regarding a potential sequel to Cloverfield, but Reeves (who directed Cloverfield) explains why with him on Let Me In and writer Drew Goddard finishing up The Cabin in the Woods, it may take a while.

"I know that there definitely is an intention to do something, and we really want to do something great, and it just comes down to how things develop. I know J.J. has some ideas for some things he wants to do too in terms of it, so we'll see how it develops. I truly can't tell you anything beyond that, because it is literally constantly evolving, and it may come out in a form that is completely surprising and very, very different."

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