Fright Night (2011)

All Critics (164) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (118) | Rotten (48) | DVD (15)

A boring revamp, with dull 3D effects, insipid teenage protagonists and only sporadically scary outbursts of neck-biting, crucifix-wielding and staking through the heart.

August 31, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

Colin Farrell's performance as Jerry is the pulsing, stakeable heart of the movie.

August 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (19)

Keith Staskiewicz

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Farrell is all darting eyes, facial ticks and macho confidence. He never goes over the top, he's not a showy actor, but he's clearly relishing his role and eating it up with abandon. He makes this a Night to remember.

August 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Adam Graham

Detroit News

Top Critic

A remarkably confident remake that boasts its own pleasures more often than not.

August 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

William Goss

Film.com

Top Critic

The new Dreamworks/Disney teen horror comedy, Fright Night, falls into the better-than-expected category.

August 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (9)

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Voilà! Black magic.

August 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (9)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Fright Night is an easily digested horror that doesn't rise above being just decent.

February 28, 2013 Full Review

Amy Curtis

We Got This Covered

The script by TV writer-producer Marti Noxon is so unimaginative that people are actually called "douchebag!" in four different scenes.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

Can a 3D horror movie be a thing of beauty? In the case of this gorgeously shot remake, the answer is "Yes!"

January 13, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Remake or not, if you're going to make a vampire movie in 2011, you'd better at least try to do something original. Something. Anything.

September 28, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Overall, this is an improvement over the 1985 version of the film, but there are still some issues with the story that needed to be worked out.

September 19, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

...just another in a long line of needless horror remakes...

June 19, 2012 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Just a messy reworking with no grasp on its premise or its concept.

June 4, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

You have to wonder whether everybody involved in this remake went in with the mission statement to make the most average vampire movie ever. If so, they did a sterling job.

February 17, 2012 Full Review

Dave Golder

SFX Magazine

Fright Night has some rough patches, but the film is entertaining through-and-through, largely thanks to Colin Farrell's predatory performance.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

As is, it's an entirely middle-of-the-road forgettable flick that's not too much of a chore to sit through.

January 14, 2012 Full Review

Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton

Dread Central

While it's unspooling, it has enough visual snap, narrative tension, and humor for a satisfying 'drive-in movie' diversion. [3D Blu-ray]

January 6, 2012 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Decent, not-quite-good horror flick is worth picking up for the nerds who hope to be at the center of a vampire-hunting blood bath. You know who you are.

January 6, 2012 Full Review

Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

It's not that the Fright Night remake is that bad. It's just not that good.

January 6, 2012 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

... A tight little horror movie, well staged and acted, and with a fair amount of comedy sprinkled among the scares.

December 28, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Just because it's more than 25 years old doesn't mean a movie needs to be remade. The 1985 movie 'Fright Night' is still enjoyable and quite entertaining. Now here's an above-average remake that adds a few changes, along with 3-D.

December 22, 2011 Full Review

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

A cast limited in number but overflowing in healthy cell count and talent makes for a superior bloodfest here.

December 12, 2011 Full Review

Jules Brenner

Cinema Signals

Another week, another remake of a 1980s flick! As someone once said it is as if Hollywood is deciding which movies to make by flipping through their DVD collection!

December 5, 2011 Full Review

James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page

• 1. Peter Vincent: Don't do anything I wouldn't do. That doesn't narrow it down. That's like, mini-golf and sushi.
  – Submitted by Jillian L (3 days ago)
• 1. Charley Brewster: Charley Brewster: You read way too much TWILIGHT.
  2. Evil Ed: That's fiction, okay. 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. And I seriously am so angry you think I read TWILIGHT.
  – Submitted by Karthi K (8 months ago)
• 1. Ed: Can't get in without an invitation.
  2. Jerry: [steps in] I thought you did your homework. You've been watching me, I've been watching you. That's fair enough.
  – Submitted by Karthi K (8 months ago)
• 1. Charley Brewster: You read way too much TWILIGHT.
  2. Evil Ed: That's fiction, okay. 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. And I seriously am so angry you think I read TWILIGHT.
  – Submitted by Jordan P (13 months ago)
• 1. Jerry: This girl tonight. She's a handful, you know? Women who look a certain way, they...they need to be managed. It's true. Your dad ducked out on you, huh? Your mom, she didn't exactly say, but there's a kind of...neglect. Gives off a scent. You don't mind my saying, you got a lot on your shoulders for a kid. The two of you, alone. And your girl...Amy. She's ripe. I bet there's a line of guys dying to pluck that. Your mom, too. You don't see it. Maybe you do, but she's putting it out. It's on you to look after them. You up for that, guy?
  2. Charley Brewster: I think I can manage.
  3. Jerry: Good. Because there's a lot of bad people out there, Charley. Everyone's got to look after his own business.
  – Submitted by Jordan P (13 months ago)
• 1. Ed: Can't get in without an invitation.
  2. Jerry: [steps in] I thought you did your homework. You've been watching me, I've been watching you. That's fair enough.
  – Submitted by Dariush A (14 months ago)

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