Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013) | (DVD) | Unrated | USED

Title: Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013)

Genre: Horror

Plot Synopsis
Charley Brewster joins his class as exchange students in Romania with “Evil” Ed and his ex-girlfriend Amy. Overnight he spies Gerri Dandridge, a college professor, in a disturbing encounter that ends in blood being drawn. As students disappear and strange rituals are revealed, Charley uncovers that Gerri is the ancient vampire Elizabeth Báthory, using sacrificial rituals and vampiric powers to maintain her youth. When nobody believes his warnings, Charley seeks out paranormal TV host Peter Vincent for help. Ed sacrifices himself as Charley and Amy fight to stop Báthory’s ritual involving a virgin born at midnight under a blood moon. Confrontations erupt in catacombs and a castle. Charley is bitten, stakes himself to escape full vampirism, and, with Peter’s help, finally exposes Báthory to sunlight, dissolving her. Charley and Amy return to human, reconcile, and share a kiss.

Cast and Crew

• Director: Eduardo Rodríguez

• Writers: Matt Venne

• Cast:

  • Jaime Murray as Elizabeth Báthory / Gerri Dandridge

  • Will Payne as Charley Brewster

  • Sacha Parkinson as Amy Peterson

  • Chris Waller as “Evil” Ed Bates

  • Sean Power as Peter Vincent

YouTube Trailer: Fright Night 2: New Blood | Trailer 

IMDb Link: Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013)

Reviews from Letterboxd

1. smcshortall – ★★★½
   “A film that has no right to be any good, what with it being a remake advertised as a sequel and it having a rushed and nightmare production, but it is fighting it’s hardest to beat back the impending smell of the cheese going stale with some real artistic merit coming in short bursts. While Peter Vincent, Charley and Ed aren’t the best of their representations by any means, Amy gets a lot more story relevance and Jaime Murray’s Gerri is right up there with Farrell and Sarandon, providing a unique type of menace they tried to capture in Fright Night Part 2, but couldn’t really find a footing with. The effects are (weirdly, given the context of the production) the best they’ve looked, and there are some creative uses of vampire traits to build unique sequences. Almost as a response to the 2011 remake, the explicit eroticism of the originals is back, now really highlighting the core connecting factor and flaw of all the Charley characters: their voyeurism that comes from a lack of control in their own lives. Watching all these back-to-back, they do start to feel very similar, but like with the 2011 film, they do enough different to make it at least somewhat fun for the Fright Night fan new or old.”

2. Rich Trash🗑️ – ★★½
   “If this movie was not associated with Fright Night I think more people would have enjoyed it. As a standalone vampire flick, well… This features Elizabeth Bathory as the baddie. There were some cool special effects that showed blood vanish into her skin. The paranoia that surrounds the characters when they see her worked for me. The ending had some good action. This movie even had a had a skull stabbing with a small cross pushed all the way into an eyeball!”

3. Suspiria7734 – ★★★
   “Ok, first things first. I love the original fright night 2 so much. More that the first one. So I am not going to compare it to this. So this is a straight to dvd sequel to the remake, but has nothing to do with the remake. I like Jamie Murray playing the main vampire villain. She was good in Dexter as Lila.I didn’t think it was that bad. I seen and own worst. Thought the ending fight and vampire designs were cool.”

4. DonnieDarko666 – ★★★½
   “Not terrible, not good either. Just another average vampire b-movie.”

5. Jayson Kennedy – ★★★
   “Might as well forego my little synopsis since this is quite simple. Charley Brewster again has girlfriend troubles, “Evil” Ed again is the snarky friend, Peter Vincent is now a TV show host chasing cryptids, and Dandridge has flipped genders as an art professor who might be Elizabeth Báthory. Now set the characters in an impressively lit Romania by night and think of any key plot wrinkle in Fright Night (1985). Got one? Good, ‘cuz it’s in this sequel which is actually a vastly truer remake than Fright Night (2011). Of course, this one changes up circumstances around those points like no one believing Brewster’s claims or Evil succumbing to evil. It ain’t Van Sant’s Psycho (1998) at least.”

Meta Description:
Exchange students in Romania discover their art professor is a vampire; they must stop her blood-ritual before dawn in this gothic sequel featuring Elizabeth Báthory.