Hot Trailer: ‘Fright Night’

COMMENTS (33)

• Well I know what I’m doing August 19…. anything else!

  Comment by Peter Vincent — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 8:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• those jack in the box sandwiches look horrible!
  the movie looks like fun. i look forward to it.

  Comment by tim dax — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• This looks painfully stupid. DOA.

  Comment by Anton — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:07am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hmm, small wonder this is skedded for August…

    Comment by deering — Sunday May 15, 2011 @ 8:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They morphed this classic that is the original into Buffy with a guy? And where is David Tennant?

  Comment by Thierry Attard — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• Vampurbia with Collin Feral!

  Looks great. I’m in.

  Comment by disturbia fan — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:22am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Damn it you beat me to it!

    Comment by Thehidden — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:42am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Actually Disturbia was a rip off of the original Fright Night from the 80′s.

    http://www.mania.com/major-fright-night-remake-changes_article_56044.html

    There are no original ideas left that involve vampires, robots, the future, post apocalypse, warewolves, identity exchange, super heroes, boy meets girl, strippers or talking animals.

    Comment by original fright night fan, sort of — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 11:53am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Disturbia has more in common with Rear Window than Fright Night.

      Comment by Anonymous — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 3:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Actually, they’re BOTH a rip-off of REAR WINDOW. Does your so-called education in movies stop at Star Wars?

      Comment by joe — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 5:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • If Disturbia is a ripoff of the original Fright Night, then the original Fright Night was a ripoff of the classic Hitchcock film Rear Window. The producers of Disturbia were actually sued for blatantly copying the story from Rear Window.

      Comment by JP — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Actually more like an updated version of Rear Window…

      Comment by casting couch — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So… they like just gave away the entire movie in this trailer. Why exactly do I want to go and see this in the theaters now? Perhaps less would have been more in this case.

  Comment by Marc — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Where is David Tennant????

  Comment by Markmcdbakerst2003@yahoo.es — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:25am PDT  Reply to this post

• Good script. But then I read an early draft.

  Comment by Bobby — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• This looks edited down to fit PG-13.

  Thank Twilight. Sparkle, sparkle.

  Comment by Tuj — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:01am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow, David Tennant was only in one very quick shot and didn’t have any lines in this trailer. He was the main reason I was excited for this movie. Still, it’s got to be better than the original, which doesn’t hold up well. Still, I have a little trouble believing that Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Anton Yelchin are still in high school. Both are around 22 in year life.

  Comment by Mark — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:03am PDT  Reply to this post

  • “Got to be better than the original” — lol.

    You serious? The original holds up incredibly well on the charisma of Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowall’s fine performance. Two aspects this remake does not appear that it will come remotely close to equaling. (Is David Tenant in the movie for 5 minutes, because he doesn’t even get a line in this trailer!).

    THE LOST BOYS is the ’80s vampire movie that is firmly a product of its time. That film is dated stylistically and in every manner possible.

    Comment by Doc Michaels — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Wait, 22 is too old to play a high school character? Might want to tell that to every other movie ever made.

    Comment by Michael — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Not much David Tennant in that – did he hit the cutting room floor or are they saving him up – in the original the Roddy McDowall role was key…

  Comment by Lord Wednesday Hovis — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• Okay. First of all, did I really watch a :30 ad BEFORE a movie trailer?

  Second, that looks awful. I mean, really, really awful. I’m usually not a cynic, but that movie has taken all the fun out of Fright Night and made it generic.

  The :30 ad BEFORE the ad was more interesting.

  Comment by lukeandlaura — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• this looks miserable.

  Comment by gary — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• The usual cyncial anti-remake crybabies come out. You’re as expected and unwelcome as usual.

  I’m a fan of the original and this looks just fine. If you’re gonna do a remake, you’re supposed to change certain things. If you’d bothered to live a whole life between the original and now like I have, you’d have gained some perspective enough to know that. Feel free to continue to cry and whine though.

  Comment by Evil Ed — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 10:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• This will never top the original. But then remakes rarely do. Just a way for producers to make money while mitigating risks on unproven new material, thereby saving their jobs.

  Comment by Cooch — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 11:14am PDT  Reply to this post

• No Roddy McDowell character, no Peter Vincent?
  The original was smart, funny, subtle & sexy.
  This ain’t.
  I’ll take the Zero.

  Comment by anonymouse — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 1:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• From the version of the film I saw a few days ago- David Tennant IS in the film quite a bit, the movie has major pacing issues, it was shot for an R rating, needs more scenes of Colin Farrell being the “charming” neighbor before being a murderous vampire (as it stands know, you get one scene of charm, then the very next scene with him in it it’s revealed immediately that he’s a vampire. No build up.), etc. Movie has issues beyond “oh, another remake.” Too bad, too, as there are a few fun scenes in it.

  Comment by Chim Cham Ree Ram — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 2:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• God help these people…Good rule of thumb is if you remake a film – remake a bad one ( Ocean’s 11 For example ) – The original was great.. This looks terrible. Chris Sarandon was a charming Vampire in his 40′s… Colin Farrell Barely looks like he’s out of his 20′s… This doesnt’ look scary or funny in anyway shape or form. Nothing like seeing a vampire on a Dirt bike prowling the high schools for girls.

  Comment by Jugdish — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 3:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• it will make zillions

  Comment by geme — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 4:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Colin Farrell is at the end of his starring run – hence the desperation with “picking” this by-the-numbers script. Vampire Disturbia – in 3D no less. Pointless.

  Comment by leftdust — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 6:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. Umm…so this trailer is giving me Disturbia with a vampire twist. I pass.

  Comment by JJ Lee — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 7:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m not sure why everyone’s surprised David Tennant is so absent from the trailer — no one in the U.S. who’s not a Doctor Who fan has any idea who he is. Don’t worry: he’s still got a solid part in the movie.

  Comment by Michael — Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Where is the campiness that made the original so great?

  Comment by Krazijoe — Monday May 16, 2011 @ 4:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• Just saw an advanced screening , shouldn’t have called this movie Fright Night! I love the original! Barely and I mean just barely similar.

  Comment by Olivia b — Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 6:57pm PDT  Reply to this post