Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent return to fight a new vampire (Regine, the sister of the original vampire) and her colleagues. Evil Ed is dead and Charlie has a new girlfriend (played by the much sexier Tracy Lin) but it's the same old antics, which is a good thing.
Everything you liked about the first film is back -- Peter Vincent, good vampire fights (this has even been stepped up a notch) and some off-beat humor (the vampire who psychoanalyzes himself as he's dying is interesting). We also have a vampire-wolf creature played by the same guy who played the Wolfman's human form in "Monster Squad" and is now known as Uncle Rico from "Napoleon Dynamite". And did I mention Tracy Lin is hot? Two concerns. One: How Charlie has come to believe the first vampire attack never happened is beyond me. I mean, his friend Ed was murdered among other things. And his original girlfriend surely still believes (wherever she's gone). Two: as much as I love 1980s horror, the film dates itself a bit with the black vampire. Those clothes and that hair could only be a 1980s black androgynous creature. So, that's unfortunate. But everything else stands up rather well twenty years later.
What more to say? It really comes down to liking the first film. If you do, you'll like this. Same characters, same concepts... same general feel. I liked the first one, so I like this. The details really aren't that important. Why they didn't milk out a third "Fright Night" I don't know. It likely would have been just as good.
Everything you liked about the first film is back -- Peter Vincent, good vampire fights (this has even been stepped up a notch) and some off-beat humor (the vampire who psychoanalyzes himself as he's dying is interesting). We also have a vampire-wolf creature played by the same guy who played the Wolfman's human form in "Monster Squad" and is now known as Uncle Rico from "Napoleon Dynamite". And did I mention Tracy Lin is hot? Two concerns. One: How Charlie has come to believe the first vampire attack never happened is beyond me. I mean, his friend Ed was murdered among other things. And his original girlfriend surely still believes (wherever she's gone). Two: as much as I love 1980s horror, the film dates itself a bit with the black vampire. Those clothes and that hair could only be a 1980s black androgynous creature. So, that's unfortunate. But everything else stands up rather well twenty years later.
What more to say? It really comes down to liking the first film. If you do, you'll like this. Same characters, same concepts... same general feel. I liked the first one, so I like this. The details really aren't that important. Why they didn't milk out a third "Fright Night" I don't know. It likely would have been just as good.