Jerry is a cute guy who lives next door. He likes Budweiser. He’s a vampire. He’s Jerry the Vampire. “Fright Night” is convinced...

Can a 3D horror movie be a thing of beauty? In the case of the remake of “Fright Night,” the answer is “Yes!”This violent and violently funny vampire tale covers no new ground, sporting the same jokey tone as the original. But there’s a quirky sensibility that we might attribute to director Craig Gillespie, who…

R • 1 hour 46 min • 2011

Starring: Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, David Tennant

Tom Holland's 1985 Fright Night was as much a love letter to horror fans weaned on Creature Double Feature as a legitimate genre entry - an imperfect yet entertaining vampire yarn that combined shocks, gore, camp, and humor into a whole. Some 26 ...

Menace and mirth can cancel each other out. But the combo clicked in 1985's Fright Night (banish the 1988 sequel), and it clicks again in this frisky 3D remake. For that, bow to Colin Farrell.

The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.

Although written by ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ scribe Marti Noxon, this lifeless 3D remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 horror-comedy never matches the original’s crea