Was this remake necessary? A one-mile-square housing development situated in the middle of the Las Vegas desert is the setting for this digitized facelift of Tom Holland’s ho-hum 1985 cult-horror item. No one believes Anton Yelchin’s claim that neighbor Colin Farrell is a vampire and responsible for the death of two of his classmates, so he turns to a celebrity casino magician (David Tennant) for help. It’s great to look at — you can practically set your watch according to cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe’s subtle shift of late afternoon, early evening light — but the performances, particularly Farrell’s beefy neck-nibbler and Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s vengeful nerd, deserve a better script. Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) directed. With Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and an amusing bit by Chris Sarandon. (2011) — Scott Marks
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