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United States, India · 2011
1h 46m
Director Craig Gillespie
Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant
Genre Comedy, Horror
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When a nice new neighbor moves in next door, a teenage boy named Charley suspects he is an ancient vampire preying on the community. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of Peter Vincent, a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.
Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz
It's a somewhat goofy movie that also manages some real scares. Best of all, it makes excellent use of an element of vampire stories effective since Count Dracula confronted Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's novel: I know that you know, and I also know there is nothing you can do about it.
One of the minor triumphs of this Fright Night remake is Farrell's coolly assured performance, a cocksure spectacle of masculine virility far more intimidating to his character's victims, male and female alike, than the razor-sharp fangs Jerry uses to munch on human neck meat.
This remake is good fun, aided in no small degree by Colin Farrell's strutting, dead-eyed performance as the bloodsucker.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Aside from some cosmetic changes, little of what this Fright Night offers elevates it above the classification of "unnecessary."
The film's greatest pleasures come from Noxon's script - which puts the sexual chaos created by Farrell's attractive bloodsucker front and center - and from the performances.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Fans of the irritatingly limp and relatively toothless Twilight series may actually find their tormented inner selves fondled to exquisite, precoital perfection with this slick and gleeful adaptation of the classic Eighties vampire-next-door flick.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
Plenty gory, but graced by a jovial sense of humor and an enjoyably guts-centric use of 3-D.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
There's an irrelevance to the movie that the filmmakers, hard as they try, can't quite shake - something awfully square about the picture: It would have played a lot better a decade ago.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
As in the earlier film, this one dances always at the edge of comedy. It especially has fun with the Rules of Vampire Behavior.
Orlando Sentinel by Roger Moore
Fright Night can also boast of having the best vampire-villain in ages. The bushy-browed Colin Farrell was BORN to wear fangs.
You may now kiss the decoy.
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