Movieline reports:
DreamWorks has released the first trailer for their remake of the ’80s horror comedy classic Fright Night, which either qualifies as heresy or amazeballs, depending on which side of the remake debate you’re on.
Have a look for yourself:
I have to give some props on this. Most impressive is the idea that it would seem that the “coffin” humor is out, although most of the original’s intentional humor came from “Evil” Ed and Peter Vincent, two characters who are in the new trailer but aren’t highlighted as much. In fact, David Tennant’s Peter Vincent is only in the trailer for a nanosecond- and clean shaven (much early publicity on the remake was his Rob Zombie-Criss Angel look) – and they don’t show the ending, unlike the original film’s trailer.
The remake seems to have other elements from the original, and the club scene is a no-brainer. That said, I have several peeps who are not that impressed with what they see here. This most likely isn’t the final trailer- but while the original 1985 film trailer didn’t “tell you” who Peter Vincent was–I don’t think that’s the problem here. In the original trailer, we got glimpses of full vampire makeup, ghouls, wolves and vampire bats. Here it seems routine. The new film also suggests that Danderinge abducts his victims (mostly teens) instead of seducing them into his lair, and has no ghoul servant to help him out. I’m still going to give this film a shot, but in the next one we should have a little more Tennant and a creature feature shot. Just sayin’. In the meantime, here’s the teaser poster:
Y’know what? I said the poster is terrible. It’s only the teaser, I know. But…can I show you something? Y’all don’t mind do you? Cover your eyes—you’re NOT going to like it…
Inspired by the DTV DVD sequel to John Carpenter’s Vampires? Who knows for sure. But rest assured, the braintrust will never, ever, ever come close to…
Screw your photoshopped headspace, with all due respect.
What do the int’ fans make of all this?
