Review: "Fright Night"
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 7:26PM 
Colin Farrell has something of a wolf's reputation as a celebrity and it serves him well in Fright Night, a remake of the 1985 vampire comedy, while playing a shameless monster. Yet, for all his rabid dog violence as vampire Jerry -- "a terrible name for a vampire!" -- the most adorable moment in his performance is positively kittenish. While stepping around a beam of sunlight during one action setpiece he hisses at it with instinctual annoyance. You can't scare sunlight away, dumb Jerry! It's a silly bit of actorly business but the new Fright Night soars whenever the cast or director are having a bloody good time. Good times at the movies are as infectious as vampirism, though thankfully more common.
I'm eager to see the original now that I've seen this. (Yes, it's true. I never have)
Anton Yelchin, Fright Night, Reviews, remakes, sci-fi fantasy horror, vampires
Reader Comments (6)
I wanna watch this so badly. I love Colin Farrell. He has the best accent and I love his eyebrows :-) Also, I think he's a great actor. Thanks for the review.
Natalie -- he does have pretty great eyebrows (so expressive!) and as an actor, yes, very underappreciated.
I'm very surprised. Everything I had seen, read and heard about this indicated that it was going to be an absolute disaster area.
Check out my review of the FRIGHT NIGHT remake:
http://thismovieguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/movie-review-fright-night.html
I hope it will do well, because I really like him. It's one of my favourite Golden Globes moments, when both he and Brendan Gleeson were nominated for In Bruges.
When I went and saw this movie I was shocked by how good it was. I usually don’t like remakes, because they usually change very little. They did an awesome job at remaking this movie. I loved the original Fright Night, and thought it was one of the best horror movies in those times. I haven’t seen it in awhile, so before I went and saw the new one I rented it through Blockbuster. I have Blockbuster free for 3 months right now with my provider/employer DISH Network, so it’s easy for me to get a movie that I really want to see. I can get movies in the mail, and if I really want to see a movie I can bring it to the store to exchange it. What’s really cool about Blockbuster is that you get new releases 28 days before Netflix. Check out this link for the promotion through DISH http://bit.ly/iH7nwg. I love how it has the same basics to the movie, but it’s a different story. Colin Ferrell did an amazing job as Jerry.