“Fright Night” is an action comedy than a straight-out horror film. Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) is a nerd who has joined the cool crowd recently by dropping his oldest friend “Evil” Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) for a hot cheerleader girlfriend (Imogen Poots). Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell) is a single man, handsome and charming, who lives next door to the Brewsters to which charley’s mom (Toni Collette) takes a liking to. Charley’s friend Ed notices that students are going missing from their classroom and begins to suspect Jerry may be a vampire.  Ed’s attempts to convince Charley that Jerry is actually a vampire fail, but when Ed himself goes missing. Charley goes to the only person who might have the answer: Peter Vincent (David Tennant), the Las Vegas magician who boasts of supernatural knowledge on how to kill vampires.

Fright Night makes use of an ideal location: Las Vegas, a city of the night. It takes place in a suburban housing development of eerie isolation. Fright Night was More >

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