An excerpt from my review:

“The original Fright Night was a bit if Hammer Studios made Rear Window as filtered through the sensibility of Joe Dante’s The ‘burbs and the make-up wizardry of John Landis’s American Werewolf in London. Here we’ve replaced the eighties gothic setting with the cheap pre-fab look of modern American suburbs, making the presence of an ancient nosferatu a nutty juxtaposition. Colin Farrell’s villainous vampire has the sexy vibe that most vampire stories go for these days, but like the original, he grows monstrous and disfigured when he’s ready to start biting people with the aid of CGI instead of the glorious prosthetic effects of the eighties. However, David Tennant’s showman douchebag is the one who steals the show.”

Read the rest over at Parcbench