Vampire, vous avez dit vampire?

À quelques surprises près, on se laisse porter par cette histoire bien ficelée en goûtant les quelques pointes d'humour écorchant gentiment l'engouement toujours présent pour les créatures de la nuit. Quant aux effets spéciaux, on a tellement évolué dans ce domaine depuis 1985 qu'ils n'épatent plus comme à l'époque, bien qu'ils soient plus que satisfaisants.

The rest of the surprises are the stuff movie reviews are made of, because Fright Night turns out to be a fantastically entertaining and rather sophisticated outing that tips its hat to all the right sources, without ever falling into cliché.

Even in good old 2D, Fright Night is totally worth checking out, and a surprising tasty late-summer treat.

The fun of Fright Night takes a little too long to get going, and it's really a shame about the bad misuse of 3D, but Gillespie and Noxon are clever enough, and have cast enough skilled actors, to make this Fright Night revisit worth the effort.

Fright has matured nicely over the quarter-century. While remaining sharp-tongued, the film knows its place on the teen landscape. Vampires are hot property, and references to Twilight abound.

The second release in two weeks (after Glee: The 3D Concert Movie) to do next to nothing with its 3D format, Fright Night is nonetheless a moderately amusing remake of the well-liked 1985 original about a teenager who discovers a vampire has moved in next door.