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Fright Night

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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

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.

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70

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.

63

Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez

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.

70

Chicago Reader by J.R. Jones

This remake is good fun, aided in no small degree by Colin Farrell's strutting, dead-eyed performance as the bloodsucker.

50

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Aside from some cosmetic changes, little of what this Fright Night offers elevates it above the classification of "unnecessary."

75

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

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.

50

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.

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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.

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