a question more than a review...

Rating: 3/10 (13 September 2013)

uh, "chicken or egg?" time... ie, this movie & "fright night" (the original, but mainly the remake) have so many commonalities (apart from "actual" vampires) that i'm surprised it gets compared instead to the vintage alfred hitchcock offering "rear window"... ??? :P
Still, the old saying of "hollywood has only ever made 7 movies"... (or whatever the number is... eg, i'd personally say "only 1", ie, basically it merely keep re-packaging "the 10 commandments")
...goes a long way towards explaining THAT bit.
Anyway, not putting the movie down, (some quite intense acting seems to be Shia LaBeouf's forte/penchant, & has saved many a movie i'v seen him in - nearly even "transformers" lolz) it's just that i find it somewhat amazing that this movie keeps getting compared to the hitchcock film, whilst it really seems more like a (stripped of the supernatural of course) parallel to "fright night" (the remake).