Fright Night

Fright Night

Rating 5 out of 10

I have to admit I'm not a big fan of horror movies like I was in my younger days.  Too easy to see the scares coming long down the road.  This is a remake from a movie made in 1985.  I saw the original but darned if I can remember it.

This movie is not intended to scare you every step.  It gives you gore from vampire attacks along with some tongue in cheek chuckles.  Colin Farrell has gone back to the pretty boy look after several movies looking grungy.  He plays the hunky vampire that moved in next door in a neighborhood outside Las Vegas.  A high school student and his single mom live next door and notice strange goings on.  People turning up missing and weird things happening late in the night.

Farrell does a good job mixing charm and fear.  Toni Collette was the mom in the wonderful Sixth Sense.  She is a mom here too.  Mother of the teenage boy who snoops into the vampire next door.

This is a harmless popcorn movie you will most likely get a kick out of.  Not real scary but has some scary parts in it.  Some of the vampire attacks are gory but only in quick spurts.  Like most movies released this summer it's not bad but not real good either.  See it on the early show.  Do not waste your money on the 3D.