DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

The monsters hiding in the vast darkness of the spooky, abandoned Blackwood Manor of spooky, abandoned Providence, Rhode Island are revealed very early on to be somewhat similar to the fairy tale of the 'tooth fairy' in that they desire children's teeth.  Later on we learn from a helpful librarian (who is a young man and not an old woman) that Pope Sylvester II negotiated a peace treaty with the prehistoric 'fairy folk' that set the terms we are all most familiar with: tooth goes under pillow, gets replaced with a coin, nobody eats any children.  Well that's plenty interesting, but the more we learn about these little devils, and the more we see of them, the less menace they provide.  They terrorize the central little girl endlessly, but since they always surround her and dance around instead of inflicting any harm, we start to doubt their bona fides.  Eat somebody already, ya little bastards!

FRIGHT NIGHT

This film is a horror-comedy, but it's not very funny and it's not scary at all, so I guess its a failure.  Everyone involved, cast and crew, is talented and hardworking enough to deliver a solid film, but I don't think anybody really wanted to remake Fright Night and hence any passion for the material is lacking.  The 3D effects also take a big dump all over everything, even if you see it in 2D like I did. I suspect 3D is to blame for the murky, dirty, foggy, indistinct fuzziness that coats most scenes, and I'm positive 3D is too blame for all the crap flying at the screen.  Why couldn't they just tell a nice story about a boy who thinks his neighbor is a vampire?