Given that Fright Fest 2010 just finished and there’s been a fair amount of horror-related news and reviews this week on FilmShaft, you’d be forgiven in thinking it was a purely horror film website.

But frankly, horror is definitely ‘in’ this year with a strong crop of talent and movies emerging that just get us excited about the medium.

The first photos (via an eagle-eyed snapper at Collider) from Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night remake has emerged online showing off David Tennant’s re-imagined character Peter Vincent as a rather camp-looking magician. Of course it’s part of the character’s Vegas act, but it shows off how radical this Marti Noxon script departs from the original Tom Holland classic.

Fright Night stars Colin Farrell as the dreaded vampire, Anton Yelchin as Charly Brewster, Christopher Mintz-Plasse in the Evil Ed role and Imogen Poots as the love interest. Toni Collette also joined the cast as Charley’s mother. Writer Noxon described the new vampire as:

“He’s a much more ‘Jaws’-like vampire in the Amblin tradition.”

We’ll be sticking to this production like shit to the proverbial blanket, so expect more news coming hopefully – thick and fast – on what will be an interesting little film. The Dreamworks production has been filming in New Mexico and will be released next October and will be in 3D.