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Let's start off this review by just going ahead and addressing the elephant in the room. Yes, Tom Holland's Fright Night is by far one of the best vampire movies to come out of the 1980s, and like many of you horror fans out there, I have been completely apprehensive about DreamWorks remaking it ever since the film went into production late last year.
Sure, you had one of the most compelling genre writers behind the script ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer" alum Marti Noxon), an imaginative director at the helm (Lars and the Real Girl's Craig Gillespie) and an insanely gifted cast assembled to introduce a new generation of fans out there to the world of Fright Night; and yet, I still couldn’t help but be skeptical. After all, Holland's original film remains one of my very favorite movies (genre or otherwise), and initially I felt like a part of my childhood was being stolen from me.

But now that I've had the opportunity to check out the new Fright Night for myself (twice), I've definitely done a 180 on the subject. Not only is Fright Night a brutally fun horror flick. but it's also one of the best remakes I've seen over the last few years. And for those of you nervous about seeing another one of your favorites getting remade, don't worry too much- it's absolutely clear after seeing it that both DreamWorks and Gillespie approached this project with the utmost love and respect for Holland's original story.

In a filmmaking climate where so many remakes stumble, Fright Night has managed to get everything right and make a fan out of me. With an exceptionally talented cast assembled, an innovative director at the wheel and one of the best genre writers attached, Fright Night is one of those rare remakes that has the ability to hold its head up proudly on its own merits (there are plenty of surprises in the last 20 minutes that should manage to keep fans of the original guessing until the very end) but also manages to loving pay its respect to its source material without ever taking anything away from the original film or trying to duplicate what made Tom Holland's classic film so special to its loyal fans.

4 out of 5

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