Re: Seen Any Good Movies...?
Fright Night (2011)
I avoided the 2011 remake for a while, because I didn't think it needed to be remade. While that's probably true, I honestly think the newer one compares favorably.
We recently rewatched the original 1985 Fright Night and it wasn't as good as I remembered. The '85 version really has two great things. 1) It was a relatively novel take on the vampire movie, setting it in contemporary suburbia and just a dash of humor. 2) Chris Sarandon as the vampire.
So Sarandon played his vampire as handsome, aristocratic and cool. Colin Farrell is not aristocratic and cool, but more animal and sexy. He brought his own style to it, and it works. I think the movie would have been terrible if Farrell had tried to copy Sarandon's performance.
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