Reeves: 'Let Me In' darker than Twilight'

Matt Reeves has said that his remake of Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In will be "darker and scarier" than Twilight.

The director, who cast The Road's Kodi Smith-McPhee and (500) Days Of Summer's Chloe Moretz in his Hollywood version, told MTV that Let Me In will stand apart from Kristen Stewart's vampire saga.

"I think that what people respond to in Twilight is the fantasy of it," Reeves said. "It's such a grand, romantic fantasy, and in a way, the reason why I think there is room for a film like ours is, though it's a vampire film, it uses it in such a different way.

"Whereas Twilight is kind of a fantasy, this will be a darker, scarier kind of journey. Obviously, True Blood is also really big these days too, and that's a different thing using the sexual side.

"I think it's really about what sort of emphasis the story takes and how you use the metaphor. The amazing thing about genre films is the way to smuggle in different kinds of themes and things worthy of exploration."

Let Me In, about a bullied school boy who falls for a vampire girl, is due out in cinemas later this year.