Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2011 American horror film called,
Fright Night. Spoilers ahead. Sit back, relax and enjoy the video.
The movie starts with a family under the attack of a local vampire that feeds on
families for four hundred years now. Adam’s family is ripping apart. But Adam is the only one left,
he hides below the bed and grabs a gun hidden under it. And he attempts to use it against the
vampire that continues to feed on his family. But the vampire thrashes the bed and finds him, blood
scatters everywhere as the vampire consumes him. The following morning, Charley talks to his mom,
Jane, that his motorbike is not working, as he is about to go to school. They discuss about
the large garbage container next door that is causing a lot of problems for them. But
suddenly his girlfriend Amy calls him to give him a ride to school, as his motorbike is not working.
Later, at school, the professor conducts an attendance, but Charley notices that Adam is
not at the room. Ed looks at him as he grows worry of the absence of Adam. After class, Ed approaches
Charley and his new friends, Mark and Ben, the certified cool kids at school. Ed asks Charley to
accompany him to visit Adam’s home, as they were once very close to each other. He warns Charley
that he will spread the video of when they were younger, about a lame monster alien role play.
Charley arrives with Amy at their home and notices that Jane is talking with their new
neighbor Jerry, he is fixing the front yard, but he receives a text message from Ed that he is
late for their meet-up at Adam’s house. Charley sprints towards the house of Adam to meet him,
but Ed scolds him as he is late and almost forgets about their meeting.
Charley and Ed enter the doggy door to open the main door, as no one is answering the doorbell.
The two surveys the area for signs of Adam and his family,
but Ed mentions that there have been attacks of vampires at their neighborhood for some time now,
and he grows worry of Adam’s family state. But Charley is skeptical of the vampire attacks,
and his new neighbor is the vampire. But they begin to argue about that Charley’s separation
with them. Ed mentions that Charley is now changing into one of the cool kids.
But Charley responds with, “My life got better when we separated.”, And then leaves.
As they go separate ways, Mark encounters a skating Ed on the way home.
He assaults Ed and scares him off. But as Ed runs towards the fences, he accidentally drops
his bag while trying to escape from Mark, he gets stuck at a house with Jerry the alleged Vampire.
As Ed panics he attempts to end Jerry with a blessed cross of Jesus. But he fails and the
water turns red as he falls to his demise at the fangs of the alleged vampire at an abandoned pool.
The following morning, Amy fetches Charley as he is late for school as he reminisces
with his memories with Adam and Ed. Charley and Amy arrive at the school,
his professor conducts another attendance, but now both Adam and Ed are absent, and he
speculates that there something ominous happening at their town. After the class, Charley visits
the house of Ed to investigate. Ed’s mom and dad greet him as they remember the times where Adam,
Charley, and Ed, play pretend at their backyard when they were young.
Charley asks for permission to get a book at Ed’s room but, he’s just going to investigate
his room for clues. Ed’s parents approve and he enters Ed’s room. Charley surveys the room
and notices a notebook containing visuals of weapons that can kill a vampire. And as he opens
the computer, he sees a file with videos of their new neighbor that Ed speculates to be a vampire.
Those videos are recordings of Ed as he stalks Jerry outside his home, there is one particular
video recording done by Adam and Ed where Jerry is outside, but he is not seen at the camera lens,
proving he is really a vampire. Later that night, Charley goes back home
to rest and suddenly Jerry asks him for a beer as he consumes his last beer supply a while ago.
Charley panics but tries to keep calm as he already knows that Jerry is a vampire in disguise.
He hands the beer to Jerry, but it is widely known that vampires cannot enter
the house if they are not welcomed by the owner of the home. Which Charley hands it
slowly and a little bit far from the door. Indicating that, Jerry is indeed a vampire.
Charley goes up stairs, but Amy asks him where he is for the past 2 hours.
Charley and Amy exchange spits and Amy suggests that they go under the covers.
But as they went at it, Charley notices that Doris arrives at the front door of Jerry, it alarms him
as Jerry sees him at the window peeking. After a few moments, Charley and Amy hear
Doris screaming and decide to call the police. But as the police arrive,
Jerry explains that they were just having an intimate moment at the bedroom. Before Amy leaves,
she gets upset and feels neglect towards Charley as he prefers to watch Jerry at the window.
Jerry leaves his house at dawn, and Charley plans to invade his home to investigate.
He enters the backdoor and his infiltration is a success. Inside, he sees a lot of antique items
and a symbol of a cult which he takes a photo. But as soon as he is about to leave, Jerry arrives
and leaves Charley no choice but to hide at the closet. Where he sees a room filled with lights.
One of the rooms contains Doris asking for help, he tries to picklock the door but is unsuccessful.
Charley hears Jerry enters the main room and he hides at an empty room. Jerry enters the secret
room and bites Doris’ bloody neck. Charley peeks at the door but Doris whispers to close the door.
Jerry throws her at the room and leaves the secret room. Charley rushes to open the door
where Doris is crying. He picklocks the door and grabs Doris to escape the house of the vampire.
But as they attempt to escape Jerry keeps on returning to the kitchen to get food which
delays the escape of Charley and Doris. Once Jerry moves to the living room, they quickly grab the
opportunity and go for the door to escape. But as they are outside, Doris explodes
as she reaches sunlight leaving Charley in terror and confusion.
Later that afternoon, he searches online about the famous vampire hunter Peter Vincent. He constructs
a plan of infiltrating the building of Peter as an interviewer and tells him about Jerry being a
vampire. He introduces himself as part of the Sun Company and mentions about Jerry and the findings
in his home that proves that Jerry is indeed a vampire. But Peter thinks of it as a joke and
asks Charley to leave the photos at his desk and leave, as they are only wasting each other’s time.
After that incident, Charley prepares an anti-vampire system around their home to protect
them from Jerry. But Jerry attacks Ben and Mark at their car as they are stalking Charley’s home,
as he’s been acting weird for the past few days. Amy arrives and gets furious
at Charley as he’s avoiding for some time now. He explains that they’re in danger
as Jerry is a vampire that will kill them. Jerry knocks at the door, but Charley warns
his mother that letting him inside will put them all in danger. And his mother tells Jerry to
go away for a bit. Jerry then mentions about Charley trespassing his home when he was not
around yesterday. But his mother tells Jerry to call the authorities, but Jerry instead digs the
gas line at their lawn to blow their house up, making the rule of house and vampires useless.
After the explosion Amy, Charley, and Jane are safe and run straight for the car to escape,
Jerry thinks of a way to slow them down and notice Charley’s broken motor bike and throws it at them.
A car chase commence between Jane and Jerry as they attempt to escape, although they are bested
by the vampire, and he immobilizes their car after taking a hit and run. A passing by car hits them
at the rear and gets furious, but Jerry attacks the owner of that car to feed himself. Charley
attempts to stab Jerry a stake to end him, but he fails miserably. His mother notices a broken
street sign and stabs Jerry instead, although, it does not kill him but immobilizes him temporarily.
Jane falls after getting the idea of killing Jerry at the scene making her faint,
Charley and Amy uses the other car and goes to the nearest hospital to cure her.
Peter looks at the pictures that Charley owns at his table. He remembers that the
cult looks familiar, and immediately calls Charley to go at his building to talk.
A few moments after, Amy and Charley is talking to Peter ways how to kill Jerry.
Peter scoffs and drinks alcohol as there is no way that they can kill him without proper equipment,
but they are abruptly interrupted by a delivery, and Peter’s assistant receives it.
To Charley’s surprise, it’s Ed as a vampire. He explains that he previously turned into a vampire
after getting attacked by Jerry at the pool. And now, he seeks vengeance. Charley fights Ed to
keep Amy safe, Amy and Charley gets creative and uses Peter’s anti vampire weapons to defeat Ed.
After some time, Ed gets hit by a mace by Amy and as a finisher
Charley stabs him with a stake at the heart. Jerry arrives as Ed informs him through a phone
call before dying, Amy finds a silver bullets to fill up a revolver and uses it to shoot Jerry.
Although, her aim is bad and resorts to throwing the chalice filled with holy water to burn Jerry.
They escape using the stairs but get separated at the club room as there are a lot of people
in there. Jerry grabs the lost Amy and bites her to turn her into a vampire.
Charley devastatingly returns to see Peter to say that Jerry successfully turns his girlfriend into
a vampire. Peter shares about his past pertaining to Jerry killing his family before and leaving
him, he survived by hiding which he also did a few moments ago while Jerry and Ed attacks his
building. He gives Peter a stake blessed by Saint Michael, which can revert the vampires that Jerry
turned into. He emphasizes that that is the only help that he can provide to Charley as he
does not want to deal with vampires anymore. Peter asks Charley for a plan, but when he
sarcastically tells that he can’t win unless he burns and stab Jerry at the same time.
Which Charley keeps in mind, even though it is near impossible to execute.
Charley visits a local firearms store to buy several items that are necessary to kill Jerry
in his lair. He buys a crossbow, a hunting suit, arrows, and a face mask. He then returns to
the house of Jerry to kill him. He prepares his equipment and rushes towards the house of Jerry.
His first action that he does is to break the windows to let the sunlight enter the house.
The next is to survey the area for other possible hidden entrances. He sees Amy at the same room
where Doris is before. Amy is dragged into another sublevel of the house of the vampire.
Charley rushes down to the living room, but to his surprise, Peter is there and offers to
help him to also avenge his fallen parents. Peter leads Charley to the floor trap where
Amy is currently. They fall into a dark room that appears to be an old basement.
They both survey the area in order to find Amy and Jerry. Amy screams at the back of a blue
door. Peter tells Charley that this is probably a trap, but that is what he is expecting to occur.
Jerry separates them both by pushing Charley at the blue room while dragging Peter at the main
basement room. At the blue room, Charley saves Amy as she is at the corner of the room waiting
for someone to save her. They hug each other as they are apart, but Amy tells her it is too
late as the blood of a vampire now runs at her veins. She attempts to turn him into a vampire,
but Charley immediately grabs the stake and stabs her shallowly to push her behind.
On the other side, Peter miserably misses Jerry with his shotgun. Jerry mocks his mother and
father’s shooting aims and as he finally shoots his chest, it is still not enough to kill him.
Peter falls to the ground, and Jerry throws him a small rock that is enough to make him bleed
to summon his vampire minions. Peter is now on the ground surviving many vampire bites as
many as he can, waiting for Charley to help him. Charley rushes to the main room to help Peter,
he grabs the shotgun and shoots the ceiling to let the sunshine at the basement.
It kills most of the vampires, but he is already too late as Peter is now slowly
turning into a vampire. He is hit by Mark who is now a vampire, he falls along with Peter at a part
where a large amount of sunshine is present. Jerry torments Charley by exchanging spits
and blood with Amy that is rather enjoying the moment. Charley asks for Peter’s lighter to burn
himself and stab Jerry the stake blessed by St. Michael. He thanks Peter for the sarcastic plan
as it is his last resort to end Jerry and make the vampire minions into normal people once more.
The movie ends by Charley burning himself and running towards Jerry and tackling him. Although
Jerry is just too strong for him, Peter thinks of a way to help him. He then slowly grabs the
shotgun and shoots the ceiling to make a bigger hole for the sunshine to enter the basement.
Charley is thrashed around by Jerry multiple times, but he holds Jerry at place to make him
burn which exposes Jerry’s heart, giving Charley enough opportunity to stab him in the heart. Peter
throws the stake to him, and he quickly stabs Jerry without hesitations, ending the life of
the four-hundred-year-old vampire named Jerry, making the vampire minions into humans once more.