2011 · horror · comedy · coming-of-age
Fright Night
Directed by Craig Gillespie1h 46m2011
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.
Our read: Fright Night (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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