Fright Night

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Audience Member Most of the characters are dull and cliché and, infortunately, it doesn't work as a scary movie, but I guess you can still having fun watching it. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/16/24 Full Review Chris F Fright Night is superbly fun. The characters, both main and secondary, are well-cast and work so well together. This movie rocks. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/15/24 Full Review Anton H A horror remake that surprisingly improves upon the original. Colin Farrell is perfection. Highly entertaining and palatable, this one’s a lot of fun. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/08/24 Full Review Audience Member Awesome movie! The cast were great in this film. The vfx on this movie was so good making I like how they make the scenes on every film from start to end. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/03/24 Full Review Matthew D The funniest vampire spoof ever! Director Craig Gillespie’s supernatural horror comedy Fright Night (2011) is such a hilarious spoof of all things vampire. I love the bloody gore, cute teen coming of age romance, touching friendship, and absurd sarcastic humor. Fright Night is clever as everything trope of the vampire horror genre gets torn apart or respected from vampires only being allowed to enter once invited to stakes through the heart and a plethora of other vampiric lore based jokes. Gillespie takes the Zombieland or Jennifer’s Body approach like he’s trying to tear apart Twilight by bringing things back to Blade or Underworld in sleek contemporary style. Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Marti Noxon adapts Tom Holland’s original Fright Night with an irreverent humor and a bloodlust that’s divine. Fright Night is also clearly a hard reaction to Twilight’s sparkling vampires. It presents the fun coming of age teen comedy with bloody vampire horror sequences. Marti Noxon’s genius script plays around with vampire lore and spoofs dozens of vampire horror films. Her hilarious sense of humor is very similar to what other 2010’s movies offered like Jennifer’s Body did for demonic possession, Zombieland did for zombies, Kick-Ass did for superheroes, and Scream 4 did for slashers. Anton Yelchin was very endearing and handsome as the nervous everyman hero Charley Brewster. Yelchin was a huge loss for cinema as he was naturally charismatic with a sincerity that screams likable. He’s funny as the awkward romantic boyfriend and frightened horror hero. I loved him in 2011’s Fright Night and Thoroughbreds in particular. May Anton Yelchin rest in peace. Imogen Poots is so pretty that she’s stunning the second you see her as Charley’s lovable and forward girlfriend Amy Peterson. I found her charming and funny. Her frustrations with Charley’s secrecy and dismissiveness are sympathetic. I liked her dry wit and fierce attitude with a sweet gentleness to her. Imogen Poots is one of the greatest actresses of her generation. Fright Night shows her versatile acting chops to do fearsome horror, tender romance, and hysterical comedy. Colin Farrell truly understood the assignment as Jerry the vampire next door to Yelchin’s Charley. Farrell is hilarious with his campy humor and intimidating in an effortlessly suave manner. Farrell plays around with shadows and crucifixes with a playful whimsy that’s completely engrossing. Every time Farrell’s Jerry works his devilish way around a vampire bane, I just have a big smile on my face. Colin Farrell needs to be in more comedies as he’s always funny and really underrated as an actor. Farrell’s Jerry is a delightful horror villain. Christopher Mintz-Plasse is super funny as Charley’s nerdy old best friend Edward “Evil Ed” Lee. Mintz-Plasse nails the goofy dork vibe as well as the hurt friend. I liked him in Kick-Ass and Fright Night a lot, even though he mostly gets known for Superbad. Dave Franco’s bully Mark is easy to hate as he excels at looking smarmy and saying cruel things. Reid Ewing is excellent as the airhead stoner Ben. Will Denton gets a cool opening scene where Farrell attacks him. Denton gives a strong performance as Charley’s friend Adam Johnson. David Tennant is a riot as the parody of Van Helsing and Criss Angel named Peter Vincent after horror icons Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. His rude drunken vampire lore expert is a campy pleasure. Tennant was born to play over the top comedic characters like Peter Vincent. Sandra Vergara is ridiculously sexy and hilarious as Vincent’s sarcastic girlfriend Ginger. Horror icon Toni Collette is very funny as Charley’s clueless mother Jane Brewster, who finds courage to attack Colin Farrell. Legendary 90’s alternative singer Lisa Loeb cameos as Ed’s sweet mother Victoria Lee in a nice little scene. Brian Huskey plays Ed’s pleasant and friendly father Rick Lee. Emily Montague is lovely and sympathetic as Doris. Grace Phipps is wonderful as Bee. Chris Sarandon cameos as the motorist Jay Dee that Colin Farrell kills on the highway since Sarandon was the original vampire in the old classic Fright Night. Editor Tatiana S. Riegel cuts so quickly that Fright Night’s 106 minutes flies by with a frantic pace. Fright Night hardly feels like a half hour. She cuts from joke to joke with swift pacing and striking efficiency in storytelling. Cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe makes Fright Night look so sleek and beautiful. He plays with shadows and darkness for striking wide shots and all his close-ups on characters look incredible. Fright Night holds up visually, not just for the humor. Steven Spielberg actually provided a lot of storyboarding and editing assistance supposedly, so no wonder Fright Night is visually appealing. Production designer Richard Bridgland came up with two cool suburban home sets and a fantastic Vegas residence for a more Gothic aesthetic. These homes are super cozy. Art direction from James F. Oberlander sticks to shadows and blood with a neat focus on hands and eyes I noticed. K.C. Fox’ set decoration adorns the homes with cool movie and band posters to make things look realistic for the rooms of teenage boys in 2011. Visual effects artists Joe Bauer and Eric Mancha create just enough CGI of jaws and fangs expanding with bloody gore to look cool. It’s not practical, but the CGI works for Fright Night’s comedic tone. Composer Ramin Djawadi’s pulse pounding score is vibrant and exciting. I like all the different instruments and playful melodies to match Fright Night’s spooky horror vibes and sillier comedy style. Sound designers Tony Lamberti, Christopher Assells, Mark P. Stoeckinger, Dror Mohar, Tim Walston, Daniel S. Irwin, and Michael Minkler mess around with blood splatter noises and biting crunches. I like how they use quieter ambiance to hone in on minute noises during the stealth sequences that are actually tense. Costume designer Susan Matheson crafts modern shirts and jeans for everyone that are neatly fitted and look cute on Imogen Poots and rugged on Colin Farrell. Make-up artists Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger create tons of bloody wounds and changed pale vampire faces that really accentuate each actor or actress nicely. In all, Fright Night is a real scream! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/21/24 Full Review Audience Member I recently watched the original and this one and I actually prefer this one. The only thing it lacks is the practical effects which is a bummer but I think everything else about the movie is better. Colin Ferrell is a bloody good villain with a script that is genuinely funny and scary. Definitely a must watch during the spooky season. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/21/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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