Sentences with phrase «fright night film»

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It's essentially a things - that - go - bump - in - the - night - in - a-spooky-old-house film and it does deliver a few decent scares, although the frights diminish with time, as does the quality of Mirren's performance.

Nick Braun (Prom, TV's Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV's Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz - Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV's Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film.

«Fright Night» 2011 stands on its own as a decent enough film that gives nods to the original.

I'd never actually seen the original Fright Night, so a couple of weeks ago I took the time to track down that 1985 film.

When it comes down to it, if you hold the 1985 film on a pedestal, you'll probably be offended that they even considered remaking Fright Night.

I know brand recognition supposedly equals profits (ahem, tell that to recent films like Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian), but maybe they could try to make something new using the general idea of an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.

More recently, a few Hollywood productions have let him explore a more tongue - in - cheek side to his persona («Horrible Bosses» and «Fright Night» for example), but before that in American films, he was largely squeezed into straight - up hero or classic villain roles.

In this week's show, Joe and Chris talk about the recent spate of»80s film remakes — including two this week, «Fright Night» and «Conan the Barbarian.»

Tom Holland has directed some of the most iconic horror films of our age inChild's Play and Fright Night.

Tom has also written and directed such great films such as «Child's Play» and «Fright Night».

MG: How do you feel that your films «Fright Night» and «Child's Play» are now being remade?

Personally, I've seen such diverse films as Hard Core Logo, The Innkeepers, A Lonely Place to Die, Speed Racer, Ghostbusters II, Fright Night, Manborg, Pontypool, and Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

Rock Paper Dead is the new horror film made by Tom Holland, director of the original Fright Night, Child's Play and Thinner.

The film is also to screen at other international film festivals which include Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, Dundee Horror Film Festival, Scotland, Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky USA, which is the largest genre festival in mid America.

MG: Most of the films you directed also came from your own scripts i.e. «Fright Night» and «Child's Play», did you find it easier to direct from your own scripts?

The fright film wasn't directed by the Sixth Sense director, but put out under his Night Chronicles shingle.

The schedule on Saturday August 13th includes advance screenings of Colin Farrell's latest film, Fright Night, along with The Change Up, the latest film from the writers of The Hangover, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.

The new Fright Night, which remakes and updates Tom Holland's enduring and entertaining 1985 film about a high school kid who finds that a vampire has moved into the house next door, is about vampires and feelings, but not vampires with feelings.

We only got to see a small bit of the film being shot, so after the break I'll let the cast and crew give you the lowdown on this new version of Fright Night, in their own words.

Directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, The «Burbs), the film stars Anton Yelchin (Fright Night, Star Trek, Odd Thomas), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Alexandra Daddario (Leatherface) and Oliver Cooper (Project X), and is available on DVD August 4, 2015.

She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland» as one - off films, she saw the open - ended possibilities for making them into series.

Craig Gillespie (born September 1, 1967) is an Australian film director best known for directing the 2007 films Lars and the Real Girl and the upcoming Fright Night remake.

TT: The DP on the film I co-wrote and directed «Monster Mutt» is also the DP on «Fright Night 2».

A new two - hour version of the definitive 2016 documentary on the making of Fright Night, focusing on the first film, created exclusively for this release

More trouble has befallen the production of Seth Grahame - Smith's twist on the Jane Austen classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES with FRIGHT NIGHT helmer Craig Gillespie now the latest director to leave the film.

Whether you're a fan of the original Fright Night or have never seen a frame of it, the structure of the new film takes a bit of getting used to.

This special edition Fright Night release will be available to horror fans in the UK on April 10th, 2017, which boasts a 4K restoration of the film.

Morgan has been in a wide array of genre films from The Devil Inside to The Last Witch Hunter, Hellboy II, Piranha 3D and even the Fright Night remake.

«Dream, little one, dream Oh, the hunter in the night Fills your childish heart with fright Fear is only a dream So dream, little one, dream...» Those lines, from the score «Lullaby», written by Walter Schumann, are profoundly unsettling, partially because a choir of children credulously sing them, but also because of the creepy - crawly context of the film for which... Read more»

Beth Wilson reviews the entertaining remake of 1985's vampire film Fright Night, which stars Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell and David Tenant.

Since then, she has appeared in films such as Cracks, Centurion, and the 2011 remake of Fright Night.

Winner of a special jury prize for «scariest film» at the recent inaugural edition of the Overlook Film Festival and co-produced and - written by Colin Minahan, director of the other closing - night selection, It Stains the Sand Red, the film is indeed chockful of frights.

Nicholas Barber sees Fright Night, with David Tennant in his long - awaited first major film role, starring alongside Colin Farrell

(laughs) What's funny is that definitely «Fright Night» is in every aspect a commercial movie but it's a commercial movie where I can't help but put myself in a sticky situation because I picked a film that is a specific tone that is hard to pull off.

And even myself, if someone had said to me right after I'd finished «Lars» that my next film was going to be «Fright Night,» I would have said (sarcastically), «Oh, of course.»

ShockYa recently had the chance to talk to Gillespie one - on - one about what attracted him to «Fright Night,» what he thought about shooting the movie in 3 - D, and his next film, the genre mash - up «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.»

Fright Night: 30 Years of Screams Horror screenwriter Greg Beville (Blackstar Canyon) details the special effects and making of Fright Night 1985 and how the film's practical effects compare to horror films today.

Charley Brewster (Ragsdale, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning) is a typical suburban teenager with a special interest in old - time horror flicks, the kind seen on the local creepfest TV showcase, «Fright Night», hosted by the self - proclaimed king of vampire hunting films, Peter Vincent (McDowall, Planet of the Apes).

In the second remake to release this week, director Craig Gillespie («Mr. Woodcock «-RRB- brings us Fright Night, which, penned by Marti Noxon, is loosely based on Tom Holland's 1985 film of the same name.

Fright Night isn't the sort of film one points to as an example of a trendsetting horror film so much as one that took pre-existing conventions of the time and blended them into a satisfying hybrid.

His latest film is the adaptation / reboot of 1985's horror - comedy Fright Night, starring Anton Yelchin as a Las Vegas high school kid who finds out his new neighbor (Colin Farrell) is actually a vampire.

I recently had the chance to talk to Gillespie one - on - one about what attracted him to Fright Night, what he thought about shooting the movie in 3 - D, and his next film, the genre mash - up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

«The Official «How to Make a Funny Vampire Movie» Guide» (8:04) dispenses rules Fright Night plays by, with a multitude of cast and crew members supplying sound bites on the film's design, violence, and use of lore.

I would marvel at the ingeniously designed video covers for films like Dead Alive, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, The Blob, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master, Cutting Class, Chopping Mall and Fright Night amongst many, many others.

She works as a consulting producer on Mad Men and Glee, and in 2011 she wrote two films, Fright Night and I Am Number Four.

It's hard to deny that recent remakes Friday the 13th (2009), Fright Night (2011), Fame (2009) and so on all figured their namesake originals would provide millions of free marketing and extra dollars at the box office, but by virtue of being remakes of well known, and usually quite popular, films they have to work harder to convince audiences that they are worth the time.

FRIGHT NIGHT is easily one of the best supernatural action films of the past ten years, and it also makes you wonder why Tennant isn't in more Hollywood films after his scene - stealing turn as vampire hunter Vincent.

I am sure Disney and director Craig Gillespie (Fright Night, Lars and the Real Girl) want Million Dollar Arm to be one of those feel good inspirational sports films.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

While it doesn't always strike the right tone between comedy and horror, Fright Night still works as a film and separates itself from other vampire movies, says Andrew Payne.