Fright Night

2011 106 min ★ 6.2 Horror, Comedy

A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.

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Cast

Anton Yelchin

Charley Brewster

Colin Farrell

Jerry Dandrige

Toni Collette

Jane Brewster

David Tennant

Peter Vincent

Imogen Poots

Amy Petersen

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Ed Thompson

Dave Franco

Mark

Reid Ewing

Ben Wegner

Will Denton

Adam

Sandra Vergara

Ginger

Details

Director

Craig Gillespie

Screenplay

Marti Noxon

Tagline

"You can't run from evil when it lives next door."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$30,000,000

Revenue

$41,002,607

Production

Gaeta / Rosenzweig Films, DreamWorks Pictures, Michael De Luca Productions, Reliance Entertainment

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

November 15, 2014

★ 7/10

Quite a decent teen horror movie. Maybe it lacks some jokes and the story, as always, is quite stereotypical, but the formula works well. Yelchin, Farrel, Tennant and Poots make a good team.

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Dark Jedi

February 25, 2018

★ 6/10

I have to admit that I have not seen the original but from this version of Fright Night I must say that I do not understand all the fuss and why it has become somewhat of a cult classic. I give 6 stars out of 10 and that is quite frankly just barely. If someone had told me that this was a high-budget TV-movie I would not have been very surprised. Maybe it felt more fresh in 1985 when the original ...

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CinemaSerf

July 8, 2022

★ 6/10

OK, so perhaps this didn't really need a "reimagining" but it's still quite good fun. Anton Yeltsin ("Charley") lives with this mum "Jane" (Toni Collette) when the charming "Jerry" (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. "Charley" is immune to his charms, though, and after some mysterious goings-on begins to suspect that his new neighbour is never going to be able to use a sun-lamp. Of course nobody b...