Ramin Djawadi Fright Night 2011 Soundtrack

The assault on music continues with the genericness of Ramin Djawadi's Fright Night 2011 Score. There is no doubting his talent as a composer, however, this score is full of generic mediocrity and containing none of the original's charm or sexy sleazyness.  A reasonable movie is aided by a rather crappy score. What else did people expect? It all seems very boring and uninspiring.

Full of the standard brass, and generic drones and the same old tired crap that we've heard for the last 16 or so years, frankly, you would be better off listening to traffic noise.


The original featured sleazy synthesizer themes and iconic music, not just the score, but the pop and rock songs actually featured in the movie in key scenes. In this remake, you hear all sorts of ear raping sounds which make you long for a day out train spotting, its that bad.

Considering the original 1985 score has never been released in any format, how this new remake score managed to get released is astonishing.

The only decent thing about the remake is David Tennant, at least Doctor Who got his Hollywood break.

Fright Night 2011 Comic Con Panel & Interviews

It looks like Colin Farrell loves his remakes. Not only is he in Fright Night, he is also in Total Recall, and did both panels at Comic Con 2011.  The original Jerry Dandridge also has a cameo in this new remake.  Watch the interview with Chris Sarandon for more information.  No information though on what the music score sounds like though, so let's wait and see.  It does sound like that they have incorporated some homages to the original in this remake so it may turn out better than expected, but you never know, as Sidney Prescott says in Scream 4 to the villian, "You forgot the first rule of remakes: Don't fuck with the original".  Nevertheless, this movie has got the legendary David Tennant aka Doctor Who so its bound to be good whenever he is on screen.

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