Fright Night Reviews
February 20, 2015
The picture firmly belongs to Roddy McDowall, an absolute delight as a TV horror-show host who's unwillingly dragged into the whole frightful affair.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
October 14, 2014
[Holland] serves up the oldest horror-yarn cliches with a straight face, keeping the action good-natured and even humorous until the gory climax.
October 14, 2014
Basically this movie was made, a lot better, by Roman Polanski back in 1967 as The Fearless Vampire Killers.
October 23, 2013
Not just an eighties horror classic, but a horror masterpiece...
October 7, 2013
Neatly parodying Hitchcock and John Hughes movies, writer/director Tom Holland litters his rattling story with as many laughs as jolts.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
September 11, 2013
Fright Night dances on a tightwire between satire and terror, glittered by special effects and a with-it nonchalance.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
August 21, 2011
Fright Night is a tidy little contemporary variation on the vampire horror movie.
April 21, 2011
Makes up for a dearth of scares with cheeky self-referentiality.
Full Review | Original Score: B
February 17, 2008
Underrated horror film is modern classic.
Read More | Original Score: 5/5
September 26, 2007
It is McDowall who makes this film better than it should be with his performance as the ham actor.
September 26, 2007
The teen horror that was way before its time in the comedy parody stakes.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
September 26, 2007
A minor classic of the genre, this is a memorable addition to the vampire tradition in the horror film.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4
September 26, 2007
Chris Sarandon is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow.
January 26, 2006
Tom Holland's directorial debut is a wildly entertaining concoction that perfectly blends horror and comedy. Roddy McDowall steals the show as TV horror host Peter Vincent.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
January 26, 2006
It shouldn't even begin to work, and yet, strangely, it does, sort of, thanks to the assured handling of writer/director Holland.
May 12, 2005
You'll scream, You'll laugh.....You'll want to press rewind
| Original Score: 3/5
November 1, 2004
Decent little horror film with an unusual twist or two.
| Original Score: 3/5
March 7, 2004
Four words: You're so COOL, Brewster...!
| Original Score: 4/5
January 8, 2004
Scar-eeee!
| Original Score: 3.5/4
July 6, 2003
A run-of-the mill vampire film buoyed by Sarandon's tragic villain and McDowall's wonderful would-be Van Helsing
| Original Score: 3/5