Fright Night 2 Movie Review

【Movie Title】 Fright Night 2

【Starring】 Will Payne, Jaime Murray, Sean Power, Sacha Parkinson, Chris Waller

【Year】 2013

【Genre】 Horror, Comedy

【Rating 】★★☆☆☆
 

Contains spoilers!! Sorry for the late post. I honestly forgot about this! xD

Ohayo gozaimasu~ I'm just here to write another movie review. lol I watched this movie last night(October 18th), and couldn't wait to write a review on it.

The movie starts off with a woman smoking a cigarette after she arrives at the gas station. Then out of no where, she's attacked by something wearing a black cloak. In this film, there were some similarities between it and the original Fright Night 2. However, I told otousan(my father) that it felt like we were watching another movie. I will expound on that right now.

They brought Evil Ed back. I was like WTF? He died in the first one!

The head vampire's name is Gerri Dandridge. That was the name of the head vampire in the first one. In the original part two, her name was Regine Dandridge(sister of Jerry). Along with that, I was hoping that she had her bug eating chauffeur, her androgynous vampire on skates and the werewolf. Is it in this film? Nope!

Gerri is suppose to be this countess from the fifteenth century, who was bitten by a bat like creature after she left her carriage, out of curiosity. After surviving the attack, she feeds on everyone in her path, to retain her youthful appearance. Her husband learned that she would need a virgin to prevent her from total damnation. You'll learn later on in the film, that it interprets that she wants to become a daywalker. Blade much? xD

If you wish to learn the background on the actual Elizabeth Báthory, here's what I've gathered from Wiki: Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess," though the precise number of victims is debated. Since her story comes only from those who accused her and was only written down more than 100 years after her death, it quickly rose to folkloric and horrific proportions. After her husband Ferenc Nádasdy's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. The purported witnesses testified to only 30-35 deaths. Supposedly due to her rank, Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted, but promptly imprisoned upon her arrest in December 1610 within Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, where she remained immured in a set of rooms until her death four years later. Later writings[citation needed] about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins[citation needed] to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula. In recent years, given such evidence as a better understanding of human blood's relatively quick rate of coagulation (which would make it rather hard to bathe in), the lack of a fair trial, and the first written accounts being 119 years after her death, some historians have begun to reconsider the Countess' infamy. While most sources continue to cling to the lurid "Countess Dracula" or "Blood Countess" image, some are reconsidering their interpretation. Considering such facts as the Countess being an unfavorable Protestant, a very rare woman managing a very valuable estate on her own, and that the local king owed her late husband a large sum of money which he was unable to repay, it is worth giving a second thought to her whirlwind arrest and almost immediate imprisonment.

I'm not sure if you guys watch American Horror Story Coven, she has a similar history to Madame Delphine Lalaurie(her name actually popped up when I searched Elizabeth's).

I did not understand the ending of this film. What took 'Peter Vincent' so long to come and save Charlie? His ＊ss was getting thrown around and feasted on like a Thanksgiving turkey! Everything was confusing and all over the place!

This entire film felt like a complete reboot, mixed with parts of the original two films, along with their own little twist to it. Overall, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't GREAT either! Maybe I'm old, but it made me miss the original two films. I don't know, you guys tell me what you think. One of the main things this movie missed, was the passion. There was no passion. I'm talking about between Charlie and this Gerri person... lol The whole atmosphere in the original was so sensual from beginning to end. That lesbian scene did nothing for me. Anyways, feel free to comment below.