Fright Night: New Blood Essay

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Fright Night 2: New Blood, the sequel to the 2011 Fright Night is every bit the let down that I thought the 2011 remake was going to be. It manged to be a let down from the very first moments as it is in fact not a sequel at all. Fright Night 2: New Blood is another rehashing of the 1985 Fright Night and it's sequel. Though it has jack all to do with that sequel other than the antagonist being a female vampire. Fright Night 2 completely ignores the previous film with none of the actors returning to reprise the roles. Making me wonder, if the story in no way bares any connection to the film prior, is it still a sequel? Shouldn't the title of this film be Fright Night: New Blood? Charlie Brewster (Will Payne) is on a week-long student exchange program …show more content…

Amy and Charlie having recently broken up because Charlie cheated on her, maybe... it's never explored that deeply. On the first night Charlie watches two women across the street from his hotel window get frisky, when one notices. Though she doesn't seem to mind. Charlie notices that the other woman is bleeding, but the time he calls Ed over the curtains have been closed. At class for European Art, he meets his professor Gerri Dandridge (Jaime Murray). Who just happens to be the woman who noticed watching earlier that night. Later while on tour of a local castle, Charlie sneaks away and comes across Gerri get personal with another student. She once again notices him, causing him to look away and when looks back they're both gone. When he and Ed return to the hotel that night the police are present and after inquiring to what happened he learns that the student from earlier is missing. When in his room while watching the police leave he notices Gerri in the window across the way. Then he witness her leap from the window with what appears to be a body wrapped in black trash bags, load it into her car and drive into the night. So he does what any idiot would do and sneaks into her

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