{"id":13813,"date":"2020-11-02T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13813"},"modified":"2020-11-02T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T01:10:00","slug":"fright-night-2011-craig-gillespie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13813","title":{"rendered":"Fright Night (2011, Craig Gillespie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how to do remakes &#8211; start with a disreputable movie, cast a good lead and a hammy villain, and have as much fun as possible.  Add a couple twists (vampire needs to be invited to come inside, but there&#8217;s nothing stopping him from setting your house on fire to drive you out) and some real dodgy digi effects, you&#8217;re done.  I don&#8217;t feel strongly about it either way.<\/p>\n<p><em>I guess this guy stars in Kick-Ass:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/frightnight2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Anton Yelchin is our guy, with mom Toni Collette, girl Imogen Poots, and nerdy childhood friend who has grown apart Chris Mintz-Plasse.  When new neighbor Colin Farrell vampires the latter two, Anton escalates to the world&#8217;s foremost authority on the dark arts, Vegas magician David Tennant.  Oh wait, the screenshots are confusing on this matter, maybe he doesn&#8217;t get Poots, or he does get her then they turn her back &#8211; either way, the magician will have none of this nonsense, then steps up when convinced of the reality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/frightnight1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how to do remakes &#8211; start with a disreputable movie, cast a good lead and a hammy villain, and have as much fun as possible. Add a couple twists (vampire needs to be invited to come inside, but there&#8217;s nothing stopping him from setting your house on fire to drive you out) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,801,2736,216,179,1693,186],"class_list":["post-13813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-colin-farrell","tag-craig-gillespie","tag-magic","tag-remake","tag-toni-collette","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13813\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}