Let Me In first published (in slightly different form) by EyeforFilm in Oct 2010 The year was 2008 and the world of horror was changing. Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In) came out, based on the novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Delicate, melancholic, oblique and cool in…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 Ring (1998) and Dark Water (2002) made Hideo Nakata synonymous with the J-horror movement at its very peak. Both films were remade in American versions that undid much of the originals’ uncanniness by…