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Constant Chatter Shopping Center - Fright Night Part 2
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $39.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Starring: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen, Jon Gries
Directed By: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301435192
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301435192
Label: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Release Date: 1992-09-16
Running Time: 104
Studio: Lions Gate/Live Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-05-19
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Please re-issue !!!!!
Comment: This movie is very good as far as sequels go and this transfer to DVD is simply unacceptable! Anamorphic widescreen and remastering would improve this a hundred fold. And some nice extras would'nt hurt either. In 2009 it will be the 20 year anniversary, so for you studio heads out there who re-release other movies every five years, how about giving us Fright Night 2 for essentially the first time.
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Summary: Can we PLEASE get a decent DVD release for FN2?
Comment: Fright Night II is a fun 80s vampire sequel. Admittedly, this is not as good as the original but sequels rarely are. I actually went to see this film during its limited theatrical release nearly 20 years ago and I had a blast.
Monsters HD (part of the Voom HD channel suite that USED to be carried on Dish Network but sadly Dish dropped Voom 5/2008) just got Fright Night II transferred over to HD from the original negative and that usually means that a spiffy DVD release may not be to far around the bend.
Seriously, this is fun flick with some cool make up effects and comedic gags; enough for any vampire movie lover to sink their fangs into. If you like 80s horror films than this is a MUST see.
I am just hoping for a nice wide screen transfer of the film with a 5.1 DD sound track. Is that too much to ask for? Some extras like commentary and or cast interviews would be swell too.
The Artisan DVD release from a few years ago was a joke. I remember running out to get this and was floored at the awful picture quality; honestly it is no better than a standard VHS picture. I held on to the DVD and sold it on ebay last year for 60.00 to some poor buyer in dire need of the DVD. I am not sure how Artisan can live with itself after such a dreadful release on DVD. I say off with their heads (j/k)!
Until then we are all waiting for an actual decent DVD release to come out.
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Summary: Great movie! But what the hell was Artisan thinking of for the DVD?
Comment: First of all, both the Fright Night flicks are among some of the best vampire movies I have ever seen. They both rank up there with Salem's Lot, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Lost Boys, and many others. The only problem with Fright Night 2 is the DVD release by Artisan. The first Fright Night was released by Columbia TriStar and was a flipper disc. Although there were little to no extras on that disc the movie still had a great anamorphic widescreen transfer that still holds up. Fright Night 2 should also have gotten that but NO it didn't. Artisan treated this worthy sequel with no respect whatsoever. Despite the crimes that Artisan committed, I hope that Lionsgate rereleases the movie with a anamorphic widescreen transfer in its original aspect ratio with some good extras too. The first Fright Night should get rereleased too in a better edition. The 25th Anniversary of Fright Night is coming in two years so be prepared for it hopefully. Fright Night 2 hopefully will be released again by then The extras alone would make both of these films worth picking up. As for the movie it's still great, but shame on Artisan for what they had done.
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Summary: Do You Have a Taste for Terror?
Comment: Continuation from Fright Night..where 3 years earlier Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent ended up killing a Vampire named Jerry along with his roommate Billy.
Charlie has now moved onto college and has gotten a new girlfriend named Alex. Here he is receiving counseling with a Dr. who's trying to convince him Vampires do not exist... During this time, he begins to undergo hypnosis.
Soon after, Charlie ends up meeting a seductress who has a deadly taste for things warm and red and she seems to know a little too much about Charlie.. Then one night she ends up coming to his room, seduces him and bites him on the neck.
After dreaming of her nightly and seeing her everywhere, Soon the seductress's identity is revealed along with her mysterious group of friends. At this point things finally begin to make sense for Charlie.
Charlie's girlfriend Alex is now starting to believe that the Vampires may actually be real and not in Charlie's imagination.
Charlie's relationships with his friend and new girlfriend begin to become broken. Charlie refuses to believe he's now a Vampire and his friends and girlfriend have to try to save him before it's too late.
There are some unanswered questions in this film- You don't get to know what happened to Amy, Charlie's first girlfriend, along with other slight disapointments.
Even though it wasn't very scary, the movie still has some pretty good special effects, decent body count, comedic thrills and good acting. The film was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, the same man who directed Halloween 3.
Overall, It's a decent and somewhat interesting addition to the Vampire genre. Recommended if you liked the first.
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Summary: A definite step down from the original
Comment: Fright Night was a movie that I honestly felt ended on a pretty solid note, by that I mean that there really wasn't a need for a sequel. Nevertheless, out came Fright Night 2 just a few years later in 1989, and as you can guess it didn't quite live up to the original Fright Night.
The storyline here is not unlike wet card board: Flimsy, unstable, and weak. After a few years of therapy, Charlie has overcome his fears and paranoia, at least enough to start a new life for himself in college. However, a seductive female vampiress and her gang of fellow blood thirsty creatures have come to claim revenge on Charlie for the death of Jerry Dandridge in the previous outing. This more or less translates to "Vampires are here once again, escape and/or destroy them".
Truthfully, this sequel is very much in the same ballpark as it's predacessor, unfortunately it lacks the ingredient that was the original's the saving grace: The cast. William Ragsdale and Roddy McDowall reprise their roles as Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent respectively, and they do maintain the great chemistry we saw previously. Unfortunately when placed amidst the rest of the bland, flat characters, they simply aren't enough to keep this movie afloat.
If you're a hardcore fan of the original, you'll most likely enjoy this sequel as well. If not, this may be one to just skip over. Thanks for reading!
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