Fright Night

Composer Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans) provides director Craig Gillespie's 2011 reboot of the 1985 vampire horror-comedy Fright Night with copious amounts of (slightly tongue in cheek) thrills and chills that offer up a dark, sinister, and playful homage to classic horror themes. Opening with a surging, Elfman-esque action cue that resolves itself into a fun and macabre, pipe organ-led crescendo by the final cut, Djawadi occasionally sinks into the quicksand of percussive bombast overload, but subtle nods to John Carpenter ( We Could Rock This Evil Thing Together ) and Bernard Herrmann ( That s a Mighty Big Cross ), as well as an overall sense of Lost Boys/Scream nostalgia, helps to keep things amiable, despite all of the carnage