Fright Night (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fright Night |
| Original title | Fright Night |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Craig Gillespie |
| script |
Marti Noxon (screenplay) Tom Holland (idea) |
| production |
Michael De Luca Alison R. Rosenzweig |
| music | Ramin Djawadi |
| camera | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| cut | Tatiana S. Riegel |
| occupation | |
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Fright Night is an American horror comedy from 2011 and a remake of The Black Night - Fright Night . Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Buffy writer Marti Noxon. The international film premiere took place on August 14th at the O 2 in London. Fright Night was released in German cinemas on October 6, 2011.
action
In the opening scene, a vampire pursues and murders an entire family in their home in suburban Las Vegas .
Charley Brewster is your average teenager who recently went from nerd to “cool” student group. When he arrives at school, his former best friend "Evil" Ed Lee makes him aware that a lot of students have been missing recently. Charley ignores him, but Ed blackmails him to accompany him to a mutual friend's house to see if everything is going well. The house is the same that was seen in the opening scene.
When Charley comes home from school, his mother introduces him to new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige. Charley meets with Ed, who tells him about his theory that Jerry is a vampire. Charley doesn't believe him and leaves. On the way home, Ed is bullied by a classmate. He manages to escape, but Jerry gets in his way and bites him. The next morning, Charley notices that Ed is missing and decides to look for him in his house. There he finds Ed's self-recorded videos that prove Jerry is a vampire.
Jerry starts attacking more people in the neighborhood and Charley breaks into Jerry's house and discovers that he is holding his victims there. Charley manages to free his neighbor Doris, but the moment they leave the house, the already bitten Doris turns to dust in the sunlight. Charley turns to the stage magician Peter Vincent, an alleged vampire expert, who puts on his show called Fright Night at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino . Vincent doesn't take Charley seriously and throws him out, leaving Charley on his own.
The next evening, Jerry stands at Charley's front door and complains to his mother, but Charley manages to convince her not to open the door. Since vampires cannot enter a house without an invitation, the family is safe for the time being. On the grounds that he doesn't need an invitation without a house, Jerry lights the house's gas pipe and blows it up. Charley, his mother and his friend Amy Peterson manage to escape by car. Jerry follows her with his pickup truck and drives her off the road. When another vehicle approaches and the driver gets out, Jerry kills him. Jerry then attacks Charley, but Charley's mother saves her son by ramming a shield stake into Jerry's chest. She then passes out from a head injury sustained in a car accident.
Charley's mother is in the hospital and he hangs her room full of crosses and crucifixes. Charley receives a call from Peter Vincent, and he and Amy go to Vincent's penthouse. Vincent gives Charley advice on how to defeat Jerry. A parcel deliverer rings the doorbell and Peter asks him inside. However, this one is Ed, who is now a vampire. Vincent immediately hides in his panic room while Ed and Charley fight. Jerry, who survived the attack by Charley's mother, also shows up, but Amy manages to shake him off with holy water. Charley kills Ed, who shortly before his death assures Charley that it is "okay". Chasing Jerry, Charley and Amy run to a nightclub where they lose themselves in the crowd. Amy is bitten by Jerry and abducted.
The next day, Charley tells Peter that he wants to defeat Jerry and asks him again for help. Peter refuses and tells him that his parents were murdered by a vampire - who later turns out to be Jerry himself. However, he gives Charley a stake that is fatal to Jerry and that turns his victims back into people. Charley goes to Jerry's house to fight him there, but Peter decides to help him. The two destroy the windows to let sunlight into the house.
They arrive in Jerry's basement where they are attacked by Jerry's victims including Amy who are now vampires. Charley, who got himself a fire-proof suit, sets himself on fire to burn Jerry while he tries to stake him. Peter shoots a hole in the ceiling, allowing sunlight to enter the room and burning Jerry. Charley stabs Jerry in the heart with the stake and kills him. Then his victims become human again.
The film ends with Charley's mother looking for a new house, and Charley and Amy decide to have sex in Peter's penthouse.
background
The film was shot primarily in Albuquerque , New Mexico , and filming began on June 26th and ended in October 2010. Fright Night was filmed on 3D cameras.
The cost of producing the film was estimated at around $ 30 million.
Chris Sarandon , who played the vampire Dandrige in the original from 1985, has a cameo as the driver of a car.
In October 2013, the sequel Fright Night 2 - Frisches Blut ( Fright Night 2: New Blood ) was released as a direct-to-DVD production.
German voice actors
The voice actors for the German version were:
- Charlie Brewster: Constantin von Jascheroff
- Jerry Dandrige: Florian Halm
- Ed Lee: Hannes Maurer
- Peter Vincent: Philipp Brammer
- Jane Brewster: Judith Brandt
- Amy Peterson: Tanya Kahana
- Doris: Nicole Hannak
- Bee: Shanti Chakraborty
Reviews
On the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 75 percent of 146 critics gave the film a positive rating and 88 percent of 25 top critics (as of October 6, 2011).
“Great cinema, which is edgy and entertaining, and neither humor nor action falls by the wayside. A great film to laugh and fear. "
“ Fright Night is one of the few shining examples that a remake is not necessarily inferior but can be equal to the original. [...] The film takes what worked on the original, injects fresh blood and new ideas, remains true to the story and the characters and comes with a few wow moments, [...]. "
“ Thanks to a charming villain and a cheeky staging, Fright Night presents itself as entertaining vampire fun for fans of the trendy bloodsuckers. If you don't know the original or you really want to compare it to the Black Night , you can definitely watch the film. […] The story […] is quite thin, but that was to be expected. With a genre film like this, it ultimately comes down to characters and staging. With the last-mentioned factor in particular, director Gillespie scores points and manages to present "his" story quickly and without slack. "
“[...] [E] in a film that is declared a horror comedy should ideally be funny and scary. The current flick is definitely not particularly funny - apart from David Tennant and Christopher Mintz-Plasse maybe - and unfortunately not very scary. […] For those who know the original, the changes to the story are of course also of interest, because screenwriter Marti Noxon has made extensive use of the classic and keeps drawing parallels, but relocates the overall plot to our time. This is implemented very well and also knows how to convince the fan. Nevertheless, the flair and the special atmosphere of the original are missing, so that Fright Night only passes through as average and is suitable for a movie night , but not particularly recommendable. "
"[...] Cinematic undead are simply perfect recycling material, as this surprisingly smart remake of a small genre classic proves. In the horror comedy Die Ravenenschlackze Nacht from 1985, horror and slapstick combined to create original teenage fun. The new edition hits the gruff tone of the original thanks to some changes that adapt the material to the 21st century. [...] "
“At the latest when Charley is in top form and declares war on the biting, ironic vampire , the hearts of friends of fun entertainment beat faster, because Fright Night has everything that belongs to a regular visit to the cinema: star cast, humor and action. So it can be said that nobody will regret looking at it. "
“The remake relies less on absurd comedy, but builds more on subtle situational comedy. The film is especially convincing as an exciting teen horror that effectively implements its simple genre story through excellent actors and sophisticated camera work. "
Effects
Fright Night, along with Cowboys & Aliens and I'm Number Four, is one of the films that did not have the box office success they had hoped for, so at the end of 2011 the DreamWorks studio was in dire financial straits.
Web links
- International website (English)
- Fright Night at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fright Night at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Fright Night at Metacritic (English)
- Fright Night in the online film database
- Fright Night in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Fright Night on the British Board of Film Classification
- ^ Certificate of release for Fright Night . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 358 K).
- ↑ 'Fright Night' - German cinema release brought forward: Horror remake starts in October. In: BlairWitch.de. April 26, 2011, accessed May 12, 2011 .
- ↑ 'Fright Night' location information, casting calls and release date. In: OnLocationVacations.com. June 22, 2010, accessed May 12, 2011 .
- ^ Movie Projector: Conan may not conquer The Help . In: Los Angeles Times. August 18, 2011, accessed August 26, 2011 .
- ↑ Fright Night . In: German synchronous card index. 2011, accessed August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Fright Night at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ^ Fright Night - Film Review. In: gamona.de. Retrieved September 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Fright Night review on moviereporter.net ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Fright Night - review on moviemaze.de ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Fright Night Review. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. October 3, 2011, accessed October 3, 2011 .
- ^ Fright Night - Film Review. In: cinema.de. Retrieved September 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Fright Night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .