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| screenplay = Matt Reeves | based on = | starring = Kodi Smit-McPhee Chloë Grace Moretz Elias Koteas Richard Jenkins | music = Michael Giacchino | cinematography = Greig Fraser | editing = Stan Salfas | studio = EFTI Hammer Films Exclusive Media Group〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate= November 14, 2010 )〕 | distributor = Overture Films Relativity Media Paramount Pictures and Icon Film Distribution Paramount Pictures | released = | runtime = 116 minutes | country = United States United Kingdom | language = English | budget = $20 million | gross = $24.1 million〔 }} ''Let Me In'' is a 2010 romantic supernatural horror film written and directed by Matt Reeves and starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz. It is a remake of the film Let the Right One In. It tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early 1980s. Interest in producing an English version of ''Let the Right One In'' began in 2007 shortly before it was released to audiences. In 2008, Hammer Films acquired the rights for the English adaptation and initially offered Tomas Alfredson, the director of the Swedish film, the opportunity to direct, which he declined. Matt Reeves was then signed to direct and write the screenplay. Reeves made several changes for the English version such as altering the setting from Stockholm to New Mexico and renaming the lead characters. The film's producers stated that their intent was to keep the plot similar to the original, yet make it more accessible to a wider audience. Principal photography began in early November 2009, and concluded in January 2010. The film's budget was estimated to be $20 million. ''Let Me In'' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 2010, and was released in North America on October 1, 2010. The film and was placed on several critics' top-ten list. Many critics noted it as a rare Hollywood remake which stayed true to the original, while others criticized it for being too derivative of the Swedish film. The film earned in box office revenue worldwide, of which was earned in the United States and Canada. Chloë Grace Moretz won several awards for her performance with critics praising the on-screen chemistry with her co-star, Kodi Smit-McPhee. ''Let Me In'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on February 1, 2011, and in the UK on March 14, 2011. An official comic book miniseries prequel titled ''Let Me In: Crossroads'' was released after the film which establishes the back-story of Abby and ends where the theatrical film begins. ==Plot== In March 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a disfigured man is taken to the hospital. An unnamed police detective (Elias Koteas) tries to question him about a recent murder. The detective is called to a phone and told that the man's daughter was just downstairs. While he is on the phone, the man jumps out of the window, leaving behind a scrawled note that reads "I'm sorry Abby." Two weeks earlier, Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), an unhappy and lonely 12-year-old boy who is neglected by his divorcing parents, sees a young girl named Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her father Thomas (Richard Jenkins) moving in next door and notices that she is barefoot despite the snow. Owen meets Abby one night and asks if she is cold upon seeing no footwear on her feet. Abby states that she doesn't get cold. Owen and Abby become close friends and start communicating by Morse code through the walls of their apartments. At school, a bully named Kenny (Dylan Minnette) and two of his friends Donald (Nicolai Dorian) and Mark (Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak) constantly terrorize Owen, who lies to his mother about it but tells Abby the truth. Abby encourages him to retaliate. Thomas murders a man and collects the blood, but accidentally spills it. Hungry, Abby attacks a concerned neighbor named Jack (Chris Browning) to drink his blood revealing that she is a vampire. On another night, her father hides in the back of a teenager's car, murders the passenger, and tries to flee, but crashes the car and becomes trapped inside. He pours concentrated sulfuric acid on his face, disfiguring himself to prevent his identification. He is taken to the hospital, bringing the story back to March 1983. Abby learns what happened and climbs up the hospital building to see Thomas after speaking to the front desk worker who noticed that Abby is barefoot upon departure and couldn't find her afterwards. She knocks on the window and he points to his throat, unable to speak, and leans out of the window; Abby drinks his blood. Thomas passes out and falls to his death. That night, Owen is awakened by Abby who insists he verbally invite her in. She spends the night in his bed upon discarding her clothes and agrees to be his girlfriend. The next day, Owen's class goes ice-skating on the river. Kenny and his friends threaten to throw Owen into a hole in the ice. Owen, emboldened by his relationship with Abby, hits Kenny with a metal pole, splitting his ear. At the same moment, several kids spot a body encased in the ice and begin screaming. It is the neighbor Abby murdered who Thomas threw into the (then unfrozen) river. Along with the body is Thomas's bag. Later, Owen sees Abby and hoping to make a blood pact with her, cuts his finger. Unable to control herself, Abby laps up a drop of Owen's blood revealing her vampire form. Not wanting to hurt Owen, the barefoot vampire flees and instead attacks a woman named Virginia (Sasha Barrese) upon jumping out of a tree. Virginia's boyfriend Larry (Dylan Kenin) witnesses the attack and calls an Ambulance upon chasing her off. The next night, Abby admits to Owen that she is a vampire after seeing her bleeding when she is not invited in and that Thomas was not really her father. Owen discovers an aged photo of her with Thomas as a young boy. As Thomas continued to age, he posed as Abby's father while she did not physically age past twelve. In the Hospital the next morning, a nurse goes into Virginia's unit to open the curtains and finds Virginia feasting on her own bloody wrists. She has been turned into a vampire by Abby. As sunlight enters the room, Virginia bursts into flames that quickly spread throughout the unit, killing them both and setting the entire floor on fire. One night, Owen sneaks out to spend the night at Abby's. The next morning, the detective forces his way into Abby's apartment and finds her asleep. He begins to uncover a window but is distracted by Owen. Abby wakes and attacks the detective to feed on his blood. The dying detective appeals to Owen for help, but Owen does not intervene. Abby tells Owen she will have to leave town and he watches tearfully as she enters a taxi and leaves. During Owen's swim class, Kenny, his sadistic older brother Jimmy (Brett DelBuono), and their friends, are seeking revenge for the injury to Kenny's ear. They ambush Owen and throw him into the pool. Jimmy says that if Owen can hold his breath underwater for three minutes, he will only be cut on the cheek, otherwise Jimmy will poke out one of Owen's eyes. Owen is forced underwater by Jimmy. After one minute, Kenny and his friends realize this is excessive and try telling Jimmy to stop, but he angrily refuses. A winged figure breaks in through the sky window and flies toward the bullies. Owen hears the sounds of the struggle above and then he sees Jimmy's severed head and the bullies' dismembered limbs sink into the pool. Owen emerges from pool to catch his breath and then sees a pair of familiar bare feet come near him. He then looks up faintly smiling to see an offscreen Abby. Owen leaves town in broad daylight on a train, traveling with a large trunk. From inside, a message in Morse code is tapped out. Owen taps out a response and then looks out the window, quietly singing to himself "Eat some now, save some for later." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Let Me In (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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