Fright Night (1985) (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Eureka) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

[Noodles]

Release date: December 30, 2016
Purchase link: Zavvi (Sold Out)
Price: £17.99
Notes: Limited to 2000 copies

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[Noodles]

Whaaaaaaaat? That's eddies laugh though! His actual real laugh (just like Jimmy carrs)

Me and my mates love his laugh



I really can't stand tennant either. Fright night is the only time I liked him

Farrell is definately a decent actor (but people can be very 50/50 with him). When he's hearts not in it he's extremely bad. Miami vice, SWAT, total recall

His interviews are great, he don't give a ****

Haha I know mate, but then he's yet another person I can't stand anyway... with or without his annoying laugh! I do love Jimmy Carr though.

See, I actually think Farrell was possibly the best thing about those films you mentioned. Not sure if you've watched it, but I loved his character in Scrubs and I wish he'd do more comedy roles... he killed it in In Bruges, Horrible Bosses and The Lobster.

 

[Scary Hair]

He's Irish and we tend not to give a ****. I'm not a fan. To me he's the Irish (here we go again) Keanu Reeves or Tom Cruse, the same in whatever film you see him in.

Sean Connery did it for YEARS . Michael Cane still doing it .

Reeves and Cruise whippersnappers yet Flower .

 

[Lollard2002]

If I had my way any film that does the likes of accents as heard in Far and Away and loads of other films I could mention should be fined for crimes against culture and the actor/actress concerned forced to watch their performance in front of a real Irish audience. The resulting laughter and humiliation would soon put a stop to any further films or TV shows doing it. Star Treks: Up the Long Ladder any one?

 

[cooey]

Again guys back on topic please. Don't want to be the party pooper but if you want to talk about sh*t accents in films then please feel free, very much like the Keanu Reeves appreciation thread, to start a 'Crap accents in movies' thread.

 

[Lollard2002]

Sounds good to me. Who wants to start the ball rolling?

 

[Flloydo]

Haha I know mate, but then he's yet another person I can't stand anyway... with or without his annoying laugh! I do love Jimmy Carr though.

See, I actually think Farrell was possibly the best thing about those films you mentioned. Not sure if you've watched it, but I loved his character in Scrubs and I wish he'd do more comedy roles... he killed it in In Bruges, Horrible Bosses and The Lobster.

To be honest I can't stand Murphy nowadays but in his prime he was amazing. One of the best stand ups in the world is Eddie Murphy raw. Amazing (epscially the caught having sex joke and the rocky joke)

Yeah I do love Carr BUT his stand up is only tolerable for half hour. I can stand joke like that, they are funny but I prefer a proper stand up with story jokes and ranting and observational comedy. Etc etc
But Carr is amazing as a host, quick and witty, raw, nasty and quite dark. Perfect.

Yea in Bruges too, forgot about him in horrible bosses lol. Too funny. Both films. Loved his weird dry dark humour in the lobster. All of them tbh

(Cant stand scrubs but I didn't know he appeared in it)

Again guys back on topic please. Don't want to be the party pooper but if you want to talk about sh*t accents in films then please feel free, very much like the Keanu Reeves appreciation thread, to start a 'Crap accents in movies' thread.

Damn, was going to ask punisher and lollard if no Irish like Irish accents in films (us Brits find it a sexy accent - on a woman and a man lol)

Sean Connery did it for YEARS . Michael Cane still doing it .

Reeves and Cruise whippersnappers yet Flower .

If i rememeber Sean Connery has never changed his accent in a film. Ever. And my favourite is him as a Irish American beat cop in the untouchables .... Wait your Scottish mate lol, brilliant. love him

Not sure about cane though, I thought he had done some accents but now you mention it I can imagine him bit being able to do accents lol

 

[PUNISHER]

"Crap accents, actors & movies" Now that's a thread I could get my teeth into. Back on topic, I still like the original film but have seen some of the remake and lost interest. As I've said before, I usually avoid remakes if I can.

 

[PUNISHER]

If i rememeber Sean Connery has never changed his accent in a film. Ever. And my favourite is him as a Irish American beat cop in the untouchables .... Wait your Scottish mate lol love him
Not sure about cane though, I thought he had done some accents but now you mention it I can imagine him doing accents lol

Sean Connery's accent has never bothered me. I still think he has a lot more screen presence than a lot of todays actors. He was powerful in the great film The Offence (1973)

 

[Lollard2002]

All this talk of Fright Night had me digging out the blu-ray I got last year. Still a great film and still has of my favourite lines. When the cop is told by Charley that the next door neighbour is a vampire! "Yeah, sure, and I'm Dirty Harry!" Not really hard to understand his reaction.........

 

[PUNISHER]

All this talk of Fright Night had me digging out the blu-ray I got last year. Still a great film and still has of my favourite lines. When the cop is told by Charley that the next door neighbour is a vampire! "Yeah, sure, and I'm Dirty Harry!" Not really hard to understand his reaction.........

The interactions between Charley and Peter Vincent are my favourite moments.

 

[C.C. 95]

"Crap accents, actors & movies" Now that's a thread I could get my teeth into. Back on topic, I still like the original film but have seen some of the remake and lost interest. As I've said before, I usually avoid remakes if I can.

Don't bother. It is the most "Video-y" of Digital movies. It looks like it was shot on a consumer grade camcorder right after somebody's birthday party footage. There is absolutely nothing to recommend about it...and I like David Tennant (but not with a sh*t American accent- yeah, that door swings BOTH ways!).

 

[Lollard2002]

I caught it on Ch 5 (I think) one night a few months back and I have to concur with the above post. It's a very very poor film and like all remakes makes the mistake of trying to outdo the original instead of being original.

 

[virkia]

"Monster House" artwork inspired by this ?


Anyway, we've got the brilliant artwork for the front and the weird artwork for the inside leaving just the back for which I choose this one from GRAHAM HUMPHREYS aka "England's Greatest Living Horror Artist":-

Anyone interested in the sequel and why FRIGHT NIGHT 3 never happened should check out this page http://www.blumhouse.com/2015/12/10/the-shocking-true-crime-case-that-derailed-fright-night-3/

 

[PUNISHER]

I caught it on Ch 5 (I think) one night a few months back and I have to concur with the above post. It's a very very poor film and like all remakes makes the mistake of trying to outdo the original instead of being original.

Two remakes worth mentioning are F.W.Murnau's Nosferatu : A Symphony Of Horror / Werner Herzog's Nosferatu : The Vampyre and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai / John Sturge's Magnificent Seven.

 

[C.C. 95]

Two remakes worth mentioning are F.W.Murnau's Nosferatu : A Symphony Of Horror / Werner Herzog's Nosferatu : The Vampyre and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai / John Sturge's Magnificent Seven.

Totally agree. And I'd throw in John Carpenter's THE THING, THE FLY & DREDD.

 

[PUNISHER]

Totally agree. And I'd throw in John Carpenter's THE THING, THE FLY & DREDD.

Also Don Siegel's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) / Philip Kaufman's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)

 

[Lollard2002]

Totally agree. And I'd throw in John Carpenter's THE THING, THE FLY & DREDD.

To be fair John Carpenter's The Thing is not a remake but a completely different film based on the source novel. The 50's film is about a a pissed off vegetable that feeds on blood whereas the 80's film is about a lethal shape changer that crashed on earth a long time ago. The only thing (no pun intended) they have in common is the way the title sequence is done at the beginning. Beyond that the two films have nothing in common. It's like trying to compare chalk and cheese. A rare example of a film not being a remake but a totally original film in itself. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly etc are essentially remakes based on the original film as apposed to a book but they are still superb in their own right. But my original comment still stands. By and large remakes are rubbish. It's telling you can pretty much quote the remakes that are any good as there are so few of them. And yes you can add Ben Hur , A fistful of Dollars,The Blob and She to the mix.... I doubt you could rhyme off any more that 20 to 30 films.

 

[C.C. 95]

To be fair John Carpenter's The Thing is not a remake but a completely different film based on the source novel. The 50's film is about a a pissed off vegetable that feeds on blood whereas the 80's film is about a lethal shape changer that crashed on earth a long time ago. The only thing (no pun intended) they have in common is the way the title sequence is done at the beginning. Beyond that the two films have nothing in common. It's like trying to compare chalk and cheese. A rare example of a film not being a remake but a totally original film in itself. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly etc are essentially remakes based on the original film as apposed to a book but they are still superb in their own right. But my original comment still stands. By and large remakes are rubbish. It's telling you can pretty much quote the remakes that are any good as there are so few of them. And yes you can add Ben Hur , A fistful of Dollars,The Blob and She to the mix.... I doubt you could rhyme off any more that 20 to 30 films.

They found that the Thing's biology was plant related, sure. But it was from space, and from a flying saucer in the ice. The films have so much in common, it is ridiculous to not call Carpenter's film a remake. There are scenes and scenarios directly lifted from the original.
I suppose Star Wars isn't a remake of the Hidden Fortress simply because it takes place in space?

 

[Lollard2002]

The 1950's film is about the conflict between the military and the scientists where the thing or plant becomes a pawn in their dealings with it. The Scientists want to reason and learn from it. The soldiers want to kill it. The threat is from the present day as the spaceship crashes in the present day and the plant or thing or whatever you want to call is most certainly the occupant. The 1980' film s is about a shape changing alien that is so lethal it becomes a race to prevent it from reaching the outside word and mankind. It's thrown clear from a ship that crashes thousands of years ago but it's never made clear if it was the occupant of the ship or something else. Radically different themes and ideas. All films borrow from other films. that's the nature of the beast but Carpenters film is most certainly an original film that goes directly back to the book "Who goes There". Read the book, you're reading Carpenter's film but you don't recognise anything from Hawkes film because they used the title and nothing else. They don't even attempt to use any of the book because it simply would not have got past the censors of the time. ... Fair play to Carpenter for bothering to got back to the book and read it and make a brilliant film out of it.

 

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