Blu-ray Review: The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fifth Season

by Gema Luna, Assistant Editor You know the story: Vampire falls for girl, and girl falls for him. Then she meets the other handsome vampire and she gets torn. Welcome back to Mystic Falls, where every supernatural being you can…

Blu-ray Review: Fright Night (2011)

“He’s not lovesick, or misunderstood, he’s the @#$%ing shark from ‘Jaws’!” – Evil Ed

by Chris Kane, Reviewer and Karl Madsen, Horror Editor

We have all had neighbors move into the house next door, and most have acted strangely at first. Especially when they do most of their business at night, and a wave of criminal activity begins at the same time. Isn’t that what happens when a vampire moves in next door? How was I supposed to know that he really was a night watchman, and that there is always crime in a big city. But I digress, and the restraining order says I can’t say any more.

The new Fright Night is a retelling of a story that resonated with pre- and post pubescent Gen Xers.  Indeed Fright Night is an important part of our myth pool, our tales which capered and cavorted in our minds long after we had extinguished the safety of our bedroom light. In many ways this retelling is a re presentation to the next generation: the cinematic equivalent of handing down the tale of razor-blade-laced Halloween treats, or Bloody Mary (Bloody Mary, Bloody Ma—).  Fright Night 2011 also happens to be a metric shit-ton of celluloid fun, filled with nerve torquing suspense, blow-your-hair-back action sequences, and a cast that propels Fright Night shrieking into the present. Bloody good fun!