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Colin Farrell's performance as Jerry is the pulsing, stakeable heart of the movie.

-Keith StaskiewiczFull Review

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.

-Adam GrahamFull Review

A remarkably confident remake that boasts its own pleasures more often than not.

-William GossFull Review

The new Dreamworks/Disney teen horror comedy, Fright Night, falls into the better-than-expected category.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

Voila! Black magic.

-Peter TraversFull Review

It improves on the premise it has been handed, producing a modernized version of a decades-old story that's superior to its predecessor in virtually every aspect.

-Sean O'ConnellFull Review

Gillespie just wants to alternately amuse and frighten you and, to a large extent, he succeeds.

-Peter HowellFull Review

Feeble comic one-liners and slow pacing combine for a routine fangfest in this remake of the 1985 film.

-Kyle SmithFull Review

Fright has matured nicely over the quarter-century. While remaining sharp-tongued, the film knows its place on the teen landscape.

-Scott BowlesFull Review

"Fright Night" isn't quite a classic vampire movie, but it's refreshingly straightforward and self-deprecating.

-Peter HartlaubFull Review

The old "Fright Night" was both self-aware and effectively scary, and if this one seems to prefer gruesome digital effects to old-fashioned bump-in-the-night spookiness, it still succeeds in keeping the audience both tickled and anxious.

-A.O. ScottFull Review

Farrell looks like he's having the time of his 400-year-old life.

-Andrew O'HehirFull Review

Closing in on a two-hour running time, Fright Night can feel eternal.

-Steven ReaFull Review

"Fright Night" is the best thing to happen to horror movies since red food coloring and Karo syrup.

-Colin CovertFull Review

Knowingly blends Eighties cheese with Nineties snark -- a combination that works better than it sounds.

-Elizabeth WeitzmanFull Review

Gillespie's movie is light and enjoyably foul, and part of the pleasure of watching is the evident pleasure everyone involved had in making it.

-Wesley MorrisFull Review

This decent remake of the '80s vampire favorite should satiate horror fans.

-Todd McCarthyFull Review

This remake is good fun, aided in no small degree by Colin Farrell's strutting, dead-eyed performance as the bloodsucker and Christopher Mintz-Plasse's early appearance as a geeky classmate of the hero's.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

At least this new version stays true to its origins by having a bit of cheeky fun, and the way it contemporizes the story is really rather clever.

-Christy LemireFull Review

Aside from some cosmetic changes, little of what this Fright Night offers elevates it above the classification of "unnecessary."

-James BerardinelliFull Review

As vampire movies go, "Fright Night" is a pretty good one.

-Roger EbertFull Review

...it delivers its knowingly unrefined thrills in a smart, engaging and not unpleasantly ruthless way, and never lets its cheekiness get in the way of its creepiness.

-Glenn KennyFull Review

A cleverly balanced mix of scares and laughs that is funnier and more terrifying than the 1985 original on which it's based.

-Robert KoehlerFull Review

Farrell is so good at playing characters with a lack of morals or decency that Jerry is a perfect role for him.

-Bill GoodykoontzFull Review

The vamp-transformation effects are quite good, the gimmicky uses of 3D lots of fun. But perhaps the most special effect of all is Farrell. Pardon the pun, but he chews this movie up.

-Roger MooreFull Review


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