Fright Night 2011

[benjamindlevin]

I hate bashing any movie... I mean this is badmovies.org after all.  It just seems that some movies are trying to take themselves too seriously and then fall on their face because of shortcomings.  This new Fright Night does not work... it is a rush job to get a product out.  

As far as Colin Farrell goes, just because he is good in some movies, does not mean that he is always the right choice.  This is the case with Fright Night.  Some one else besides him should have been chosen.  This is not Mr. Farrell's shining moment.  Sadly, I can say the same for most of the other actors in this as well, which leads me to believe it is probably their direction.  

When I looked up the Director, Craig Gillespie, I see his other directing efforts "Lars and the Real Girl" and "Mr Woodcock" as the only two major films. I have only seen "Lars and the Real Girl" so cannot comment on "Mr Woodcock", and I did like it. Not that it would make my top ten, but it was a funny movie, and I thought the characters were well portrayed. I also like "United States of Tara" which he has done a number of episodes of.  I am not sure what happened with "Fright Night".  Perhaps he felt out of his element dealing with a Horror film.  I don't know.  

[CarlinBrock]

I JUST watched the remake. Sad. It really made me angry. Not because it was a remake of a perfectly great movie, but because it was going well until the halfway mark. Then it turned into explosions and terrible special-effects-laden fistfights. Colin Farrell was decent, Anton Yelchin was fine, but everything else was disappointing.

[Trevor]

I saw this over the weekend finally: I liked Colin Farrell and David Tennant was quite funny but what a terrible film IMHO.

Hollywood: stop ruining my fricking childhood!