Jan
25
So that “Fright Night” remake … it isn’t terrible, but it isn’t the original. They tried to make it scary, which is fine, except that the resulting film is not, in fact, scary. It’s got Toni Collette, who is always good, and the girlfriend character (played by Imogen Poots) isn’t just a screaming victim; actually, she turns out to be the most interesting character in the film (especially since they make Charley into an unlikeable prick), probably because Marti Noxon wrote the thing. But the whole thing feels disconnected, overly slick, and joyless. And while I like David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, they don’t measure up to the great Roddy McDowall and the manic weirdness of Stephen Geoffreys as Evil Ed, shown above.
