Over the weekend, the first trailer for the upcoming Fright Night redux hit the net, which resulted in mostly a chorus of BOO's (as remakes always tend to unfairly get). Check it out below and then leave a comment letting me know if you're excited to see it or if you think it looks like a slick pile of remake shit!
Over on the Freddy In Space Facebook page this past weekend, I defended this trailer to an extent and thought it looked kinda fun, even if it does, and I quote myself (how lame am I?), "reek of the post-Twilight 'lets grab a successful vampire property, throw a hunky guy in there and make a killing off it while we still can' syndrome." It definitely does, and comes off a bit too Disturbia for my liking, but I still stand by these thoughts. The cast is rockin' (looks like Farrell's gonna turn out to be a great choice for Jerry) and I really think this is going to be a fun movie, if nothing else.
That being said, the change of Peter Vincent from horror actor/horror host to Criss Angel-esque magician (glimpsed briefly at 2:10 in the trailer) is the thing that has me a bit worried about this remake. A large part of the charm, for me at least, of the original Fright Night (which it's been far too long since i've seen) is the fact that the main character is a big fan of horror films, which gives the whole movie that geeky fandom feel that I love. A horror fan finds out that his next door neighbor is a vampire, so he enlists the help of a horror actor who has killed many a vampire onscreen ... it's just such a cool idea, a horror fan's wet dream come to life. That whole vibe is seemingly going to be totally absent from this one, which seems to be geared to a more mainstream audience. Don't dig that change but hey, this is a remake and remakes should be different than their originals, so I won't hate on it too much over that.
And no, I still don't give a shit about 3D. Hope to see this one in 2D, so that I can actually focus my eyes on the screen without suffering through an hour and a half long headache just so I can see a motorcyle come flying into my vision every so often. E...nough.
By the way, (Mc)lovin' the use of the old school logo.
Fright Night hits theatres August 19th of this year. Leave a comment below with whether or not you'll be joining me at the theatre opening weekend!
8 comments:
Looks fun to me. Have to remakes a shot, you never know what's going to be good or not.
That's the thing, everyone hates on remakes just cause they're remakes, not realizing we've had a handful of GREAT remakes over the years.
I'm with you almost word for word, John. I think it looks like a fun remake based off this first trailer. I like the casting, and I think it's far from trying to go the sexy teens route with who they picked to play the roles of Ed and Charlie.
As for the Vincent change from horror host to magician, I too am skeptical of it. I understand that having Vincent be a horror host doesn't makes sense, as horror hosts aren't all that relevant (to the target audience) nowadays. However, I do not see the connection between a magician and vampirism.
My suggestion would have been go with a television ghost hunter, or something like along those lines. Just as relevant as a magician, and the connection between vampirsim and the paranormal is moderately there.
Either way, I am cool with a lot of the decisions that have been made, I dig the casting and the trailer look to be Fright Night enough to be Fright Night, while having some stuff that looked original to this remake, which is very important in a good remake, of course.
I will be there. Crossing my fingers that it will not disappoint. As you know this is one of my favs, I am looking forward to your review!
Cheers!
Frog Queen : the Fright Night laserdisc you sent me is proudly hanging on my bedroom wall! =)
Not interested. At. All. I'm not going to bash a film I've not yet seen, but it's not unlike going to a fast food joint and seeing an image of some bizarre hamburger that just doesn't look remotely appealing; I realize you can't judge a book by its cover but I just can't even get excited about this remake.
I say thee: "Nay."
I won't knock the film because obviously we've only seen the trailer, but it already reeks of "slick" CGI overdose.
There was a certain appeal to the original two films that includes the style of acting and the special effects and this "remake" doesn't seem to get that. It may be a decent flick, but much like MTV's "Teen Wolf" series I have a feeling it's an in-name-only remake.
I'll rent it for a buck on Netflix, but there's no way I'll support it in theaters. That's why the production companies keep churning these scum suckers out... because it fills box office seats.
I've avoided the trailer as I hear it's the usual spoilerific kind, which is strange I guess considering how well I know the original, but I'm kinda looking forward to it as I love Farrell and I imagine he'll give us a kick ass vampire. Was watching the original the other day and can't believe the striking similarity between Chris Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo, it's uncanny. Got to agree, Matt's totally on the money with the TV ghost hunter idea, though I like Tennant and trust him to do something fun with the role.
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