Let Me In theatrical trailer

I'm still learning to get over my hatred towards remakes, but there's still one that had me ripping my hair out when it was announced, and that was director Matt Reeves' Let Me In. A remake of 2008's amazing, moody teen vampire drama Let the Right One In, my worry is what it always is when it comes to remakes. Will they cut away what made the original so good in the first place? Will the story's deliberate, slow burning pace be sacrificed in order to make a more exciting, marketable product? I'm getting a definite whiff of that based on the first trailer for Let Me In, but that could all just be in the way it was edited. Check out the trailer for yourself, followed by a brief synopsis.

SYNOPSIS:
Twelve-year old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) 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 (Chloe Moretz), an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father (Oscar®nominee Richard Jenkins). 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 is due to hit theaters on October 1st, 2010.