Box office: $24.9 mill
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Accolades: Saturn Award for Best Horror, Supporting Actor, Writing
Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%
Fright Night (Craig Gillespie, 2011)
Budget: $30 mill
Box office: $41 mill
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios
Accolades: Fangoria Chainsaw Awards- Best Wide Release Film. IGN Best Horror Movie 2011.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%
Differences/Similarities
- Remake- Peter Vincent more sexualised
- Original- more a romance
- Remake- action straight away. We know it's a vampire/horror straight away. Gory-er?
- Remake- brighter lighting. More Americanised? Establishing shots of LA.
- Remake- find out people are missing with school absences. Original- news stories. Remake more school central- more a teen movie.
- Remake- more music. Original more quiet and dramatic.
- Remake- Ed not as annoying.
- Remake- Jerry more muscular. Changing masculinity.
- Remake- Ed jumps to the conclusion Jerry's a vampire. Original- Charley does.
- REMAKE- WHY DID ED STALK JERRY? HE COULDN'T HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN HE WAS A VAMPIRE.
- Original- Amy more sexualised. Remake- Amy more feminine in context. Changing femininity. Remake more sexually open (ish). Original raped by Jerry on camera. Original more darker?
- Remake- new technology. Peter Vincent advert, phone app, LA skyscrapers. More SFX/green screen.
- Remake- Jerry keeps victims alive. Darker?
- Remake- Peter Vincent stage show. Original- TV show.
- Remake- Peter Vincent alcohol and sex problem. Normal in original.
- Remake- more action and fast cuts.
- Remake- club more sexualised and busy.
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