Fright Night

[Dr. Briggs]

I don't see it myself. For one thing, it isn't Platinum Dunes (which, to me, is a good thing by itself), but Dreamworks which has a slim track record for horror (aren't their only horror films Disturbia and Uninvited?). The director is set to be the fellow who made Mr. Woodcock? The writer was a prolific writer for Buffy? I mean, it's comedy and it's horror but hardly the kind of comedy and horror I'd like to see a Fright Night remake being. XP

As for the cast; after seeing Colin Farrell, I'm surprised to say I think he could pull it off. I only really know him as Bullseye from Daredevil and the victim from Phone Booth, which are both far, far, far from how I'd ever imagine Jerry. He looks damned accurate just being "Colin Farrell" though; if he keeps the look he currently has on his IMDb photo and acts the part with the same "manly-suave" air Sarandon did, I think he could be solid. Mintz-Plasse, I think, could be a great Evil Ed, not faithful to the original, but skeezy, creepy and sympathetic in his own way. Toni Collete looks like a good Mrs. Brewster.

After that is where it gets kind of iffy to me. Haven't seen enough from Anton Yelchin or Imogen Poots to really judge, but by their demeanors alone, they just seem like they would play the whole thing a bit too "trendy". Too naturally confident whereas both Charlie and Amy gave off the impression of being socially awkward in their own ways in the original. David Tennant I can honestly see being the biggest problem.