According to the strange acts of his new neighbor, Charlie Brewster, a young teenager guy lives alone at home, struggles against finding out that his new neighbor is a vampire, the thing that leads him to search for the most famous vampires hunter in the world, Peter Vincent, who helps him.
Farrell is all darting eyes, facial ticks and macho confidence. He never goes over the top, he's not a showy actor, but he's clearly relishing his role and eating it up with abandon. He makes this a Night to remember.
While it might have reignited interest in the original and its sequel, the new "Fright Night" itself will probably be forgotten 26 years from now when there won't even be a bargain DVD bin at Walmart for us fish it out of.
A boring revamp, with dull 3D effects, insipid teenage protagonists and only sporadically scary outbursts of neck-biting, crucifix-wielding and staking through the heart.
