Reviews of Fright Night 2011

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  • Tony D'Amico

    ★★★ Watched by Tony D'Amico 01 Dec, 2012

    Film 1 of "The December Project" 2012
    106 minutes

    This was a first time watch, and I remember hearing some good things about it, and considering I was a fan of the original, I was hoping it would be great. But overall, I think it was just a good movie, a typical modern horror movie, pretty people and mediocre violence and gore. At least I felt that way about it.

    The adaptation from the original is good, it didn't bastardize…

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  • Javier

    ★★★★ Watched by Javier 07 Apr, 2013 5

    "This is real. He's a real monster, and he's not brooding, or lovesick, or noble. He's the fucking shark from JAWS. He kills, he feeds, and he doesn't stop until everyone around him is dead."

    Sometimes a film can surprise you, the 'Fright Night' remake, is certainly one of them. They stick to a simple concept and the director did not try to create a complex film, but, one that went to the point and use the charisma of the…

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  • Grimbo

    ★★★½ Rewatched by Grimbo 09 Sep, 2012 3

    After all the terrible horror remakes we've had to suffer in the last 10 years or so, this one is actually pretty good. Colin Farrell delivers here unlike his dull turn in Total Recall.

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  • John Carpenter

    ★★★½ Watched by John Carpenter 21 Mar, 2013 50

    Rock solid during some moments. Painful CGI in others. Casting was fine all around and I appreciate how the movie pays homage to Tom Holland's original without totally ripping it off. Add this one to the list of remakes that work.

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  • Greg

    ★★★½ Watched by Greg 27 Oct, 2012

    Surprised myself by how much I enjoyed this. I've never been a huge fan of Colin Farrell but must admit he was a bad ass Vampire.

    If you haven't seen this one give it a go.

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  • Catherine

    ★★★★ Watched by Catherine 05 Jun, 2012

    I enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed seeing the first one when I was little.

    One of the few reboot thingies that seemed to work

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  • Mr. DuLac

    ★★★½ Rewatched by Mr. DuLac 16 Feb, 2013

    Man, that was some fucked up night.
    -Mark

    I'm a huge fan of genre films, and I think I'm breaking the unwritten rule that I'm supposed to automatically hate any remake of a cult film, especially if it's one I love. This one does what I like most remakes to do though, and that's change things up from the original. If I want to see the exact same things transpire in a story, then I'm just going to watch the…

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  • Emma Felix

    ★★★½ Added by Emma Felix 2

    I'm sure i'll get hated on for saying this, but I enjoyed this more than the original.
    Colin Farrell was great as a vampire, and entire movie was a lot of fun!

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  • Mark Robinson

    ★★★½ Rewatched by Mark Robinson 28 Apr, 2012

    This film is genius, and is a great watch as long as you go into it without expecting a scary horror, and not expecting to take it seriously at all. Its good fun, has some great characters, the town gives off an utterly surreal vibe, and Colin Farrel is great in it. The only thing that kind of pissed me off a bit is the scenes that are obviously shoehorned in purely to work in a 3D cinema viewing - we should be past this crap, it doesn't work and just looks tacky.

    Enjoy this film after a few beers or a bit of a smoke.

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  • Ron

    ★★★ Watched by Ron 22 Sep, 2012

    A little ridiculous, but entertaining enough that I liked it.

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  • Paul Robinson

    ★★★ Rewatched by Paul Robinson 24 Mar, 2013

    Decent, light hearted vamp remake shenanigans with a surprisingly good job by Colin Farrell. In no way is this scary but rolls along nicely.

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  • Oli Jeffery

    ★★ Watched by Oli Jeffery 31 Jan, 2013 3

    Oh, Marti Noxon, you used to write on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You know how to do cool kids fighting scary vampires. You had a hand in inventing the damn genre.

    The truly frustrating thing about Fright Night is it's a collection of great bits, with no structure. It jumps around all over the place. We barely meet Christopher Minz Platz before he's telling us that Colin Farrel's a vampire. Could we have had some lead up to that? Could you at least pretend we haven't all seen the trailer and that this is an actual film? Could we? Please?

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