I MIGHT pick this up when it goes to Video. Albeit in the rarest of cases do I enjoy seeing remakes of original foreign/subtitled films. I must agree with @TheSpainard @Winstonoboogie etc. It seems so soon to be making a remake, ... the original wasn't made available very long ago.

Why remaking an already brilliant movie! Oh the joy of bringing quality to the masses... I guess for those incapable of reading subtitles for more than 1.5 hours... Yet I'll have to give it a go to see how dumb, simplistic and over the top they make it... Hollywood...

The original is such a stunning horror masterpiece, I don't know how this can possibly approach it. I'll give it a fair chance, though, just like I'll undoubtedly see David Fincher's film of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which was already so brilliantly filmed by Niels Arden Oplev.

My usual misgivings about remakes aside, I feel even more troubled about this one.

For one thing, I don't think the actors can pull it off. I found Kodi McPhee's performance to be very wooden when I saw him in "The Road", and this was only accentuated by his proximity to Viggo Mortensen. In a film like this, it is important the protagonists don't get overshadowed by the rest of the cast - especially since they are child actors. I have less of an existing opinion on Chloe Moretz, but she doesn't seem to be exuding the same 'inhuman' vibe that her predecessor did. Both of them seem to have fallen victim to the Twilight School of Acting, wherein acting = constant intense whispering.

Events behind the scenes have also undermined my faith. Matt Reeves seems an odd choice for director, considering his filmography. Comments about making the film "very accessible to a wider audience" have also frightened me. The original film - and the novel itself - featured genital mutilation, bloody murder, decapitations and other dark imagery. There is no way you can make this material "accessible" without completely dumbing it down.

And that what appears to be happening; Hollywood takes a dark, Gothic film and converts it into a cheap crowd-pleaser.

Will closely resemble....but very accesible...that means, considering the puritanical side of the American psyche, Eli's character will be completely stripped of what makes her so disturbing. This is simply a cash grab. Secondly, no offense Nathan, but how is Reeves talented? Cloverfield was a snore fest with bland vacant characters.

The clip would seem to suggest the two lead actors where put on some sort of sedative prior to shooting. Let's hope that the real bloodsucker in the mix, Hollywood, doesn't produce the same sort of shallow pile of manure as Vanilla Sky was compared to Open Your Eyes.

The author is happy with an American remake which ultimately vindicates what they are doing. On the other hand the original really needs to be seen as the depth of the craftsmanship behind it, right down to the visual contrast between the two main characters, is absolutely brilliant. I found the subtext of the original much more disturbing and jaded than the vampire element. I hope the remake, ripoff or whatever this ends up being leads people to rent the original and see how a fantastic movie can be made with a small budget, unknown actors and little fanfare.

Of course people could go see Winter's Bone to see it being done in our own backyard before that is "remade" with Miley Cyrus as the lead...

The trailer makes it look much more like a conventional horror movie. But the original definitely was not. I hope it can hold a candle to "Let The Right One In."