LET ME IN vs. (the Original) LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (compare and contrast paragraph)

WARNING: Spoilers for Let Me In and Let the Right One In.

If you have seen the original film ‘’Let The Right One In’’ and its remake ‘’Let Me In’’ you may have noticed that both films are very similar. However, even though the remake did a pretty good job on keeping it loyal to its original, both films are strikingly different in many ways. First, the most noticeable difference in both films is the languages and setting. The American remake, Let Me In, is set in March 1983 in Los Alamos, New Mexico while its original, Let The Right One In, is Swedish and is set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. Second, the opening of both films and the different scenes. Let Me In starts in the middle of the story. It opens when the father of Abby(the vampire girl) is already in the hospital after self injuring himself with acid. In the original this scene doesn’t appear until the middle of the movie and instead, it opens with Oskar(the boy)  looking through his window to find out that he has new neighbors arriving; Eli(the vampire girl),which he finds her peculiar,  accompanied by her father and are moving to the vacant apartment next to his. In addition, another different scene it's the scene in which the father messes up a kill and capitulates and drastically disfigures himself before being taken to the hospital. In Let Me In the father was in the back of the car of a student, hiding and waiting for student to get inside the car to kill him and bring blood to his daughter. But everything goes wrong when the student gets asked for a ride from one of his friend. The father waits until the boy that was driving stops at a gas station and gets off, he then attacks the passenger, steals the car and sprints. He crashes and has to disfigure himself before the police arrives. However, in Let The Right One In, the father goes to the school and hangs a boy upside-down in the locker room but then realizes he’s not alone in the school and the boys friends are looking for him and hear him screaming in the locker room which was locked. The boy’s friends are trying to open the door; the father has no way out and has no other option than to balk and disfigure himself before the police arrives. Third, the missing scenes. In Let Me In the scene of the cats didn’t appear. In Let The Right One In, after Eli attacks a woman and leaves her alive, the woman later gets attacked by a horde of cats and is taken to the hospital. And forth and final, the difference in the graphic and violence. The remake was way more graphic than it’s original. This was seen in Abby’s transformation into a vampire, the fathers face after self injured and the attacks of Abby when she gets desperately hungry for blood. Overall both movies may have some differences but were great. Is very common for remakes to just not be as good as its original but this is definitely not the case.