Tag: Fright Night

Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the film “Fright Night,” a title that’ll be back in theaters Friday with a bloodsucking remake by filmmaker Craig Gillespie, who has shown a flair for outsider spirits of a very different sort with his 2007 feature film “Lars and the Real Girl” and his work on the series “United States of Tara.” Our Geoff Boucher caught up with the Aussie director to find out more about the new movie, which tells the tale of a high school student (Anton Yelchin) who suspects his neighbor is a vampire. GB: What can you tell us about the tone of the film? CG: When I first read the script, that’s what I got excited about. Marti Noxon had written a script that was such a great mix of comedy and horror. I had a friend ...

Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin in a scene from “Fright Night.” (DreamWorks) Lest any “Twilight” fans were still lurking about in Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center on Friday afternoon, Shawn Phillips of Yahoo Movies had some words of caution. “This is not the sparkly vampire movie panel,”  he began,  introducing the panel discussion for the upcoming DreamWorks film “Fright Night 3D.” No, this, he said,  was the ”bad-ass, bloodthirsty vampire panel.” A cheer went up from the audience, indicating maybe the “Twilight” fans had, indeed, scattered after the Thursday event for their movie. Colin Farrell, who plays vampire Jerry, was greeted with lots of love, especially when director Craig Gillespie asked him to go off stage when he called him out too early. Farrell retreated off the stage, walking backward. “He’s good. He’s better in reverse,” quipped Gillespie. Fellow cast ...