Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he's running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he's so cool he's even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there's something not quite right-but everyone, including Charlie's mom (Toni Collette), doesn't notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.
The movie started off great. It was creepy and campy. It felt like that movie Disturbia from a couple of years ago but with a vampire instead. I was looking forward to the cat and mouse type game of seeing if the guy really was a vampire. Unfortunately, they sped that up way too much and he was an acknowledged vampire with the whole second half of the movie left. At that point, the movie pretty much went right into the crapper, dragged like a slug and ended up stinking.
I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone. It is a lot of fun for 45 minutes but is total garbage for the other 45 minutes.
