Craig Gillespie’s recent underrated remake of fun Tom Holland’s vampire thriller FRIGHT NIGHT has received a sequel again centring on unlucky teen Charley Brewster as his habit of butting heads with bloodsuckers continues. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment are behind the straight-to-DVD follow-up FRIGHT NIGHT 2: NEW BLOOD which is directed by Eduardo Rodriguez. The film has an entire recasting with the likes of Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Christopher Mintz-Plasse replaced by British newcomers Will Payne, Chris Waller and Sacha Parkinson.
We’ve the first clip from the dark comic sequel led by the seductive Jaime Murray as the chief shapeshifting vamp Gerri Dandridge, previously played by Colin Farrell. Click on the link if you missed the first trailer.
By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri’s chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and “Evil” Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a “new moon virgin,” which just so happens to be Charley’s ex-girlfriend, Amy. They enlist help from Peter Vincent, the vampire hunting host of a reality show called “Fright Night,” to drive a stake through Gerri’s plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death.
FRIGHT NIGHT 2: NEW BLOOD also stars Sean Power, John-Christian Bateman, Liana Margineanu, Alina Minzu, Adi Hostiuc, and Joelle Coutinho. It’s released on DVD/Blu-ray in the US 1st October and the UK on 21st October.
Source: Dread Central
