Spoilers
For the purposes of disclosure, I must admit that I have not seen the original Fright Night starring, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdame and Amanda Bearse. I went into this movie not really knowing what to expect and I have to say that while I enjoyed it, Fright Night will not go down as one of my favourite urban fantasy books.The story is set in Las Vegas and surprise, surprise, there isn't a single GLBT person. Sandra Vergara who played Ginger Peter, Vincent's (David Tennant) girlfriend is the only person of colour. How is it that a story can be set in an area like Vegas and have so much erasure? It is not only ridiculous, it is irresponsible. Vergara did not play a major character, and much of the time she spent on screen, she was scantily clad and coarse. Unsurprisingly, she quickly became the victim of the vampire.
The plot begins in a high school, but what is an urban fantasy movie these days without a dose of good ole fashioned teen angst? Teenagers go missing, but no one seems to care because Vegas is a transitory town. Ed figures out that people are being killed by a local vampire, who just so happens to live next to Charley Brewster. Ed plays upon Charley's history as a geek and blackmails him into checking out a kid that has gone missing. Charley dismisses Ed, until he finds out the next day in school that Ed is missing. Charely does some research and determines that Jerry, his neighbour, played by Collin Farrell, is indeed a vampire.
