Tom Holland’s Fright Night uses the trappings of old-fashioned monster movies to explore sexual terrain that’s decidedly from the 1980s.

| Oct 7, 2022

As silly as it may be, it is never silly enough to expect you to take it seriously.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2022

It's fun, mainly because it doesn't take itself too seriously.

| Sep 14, 2022

Tom Holland's direction and script vary from the subliminal to the ridiculous.

| Sep 14, 2022

The film tries to be tongue-in-cheek as well as tooth-in-neck but ends up foot-in-mouth.

| Sep 14, 2022

It may not build up to anything very special but it decomposes spectacularly.

| Sep 14, 2022

Fright Night dances on a tightwire between satire and terror, glittered by special effects and a with-it nonchalance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2013

Makes up for a dearth of scares with cheeky self-referentiality.

| Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2011

The teen horror that was way before its time in the comedy parody stakes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2007

Chris Sarandon is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow.

| Sep 26, 2007

It shouldn't even begin to work, and yet, strangely, it does, sort of, thanks to the assured handling of writer/director Holland.

| Jan 26, 2006

It's tone is never comedic, and its horrific touches are more disgusting than scary.

| May 20, 2003

Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000