Dreamworks remake of the 1985 horror-comedy Fright Night will sink its teeth into Hollywood’s current romanticized-vampire trend and rip its sparkly throat out … or something like that.

Producer Michael De Luca tells Collider:

We thought it would be interesting if, in this atmosphere of the way the vampire is being portrayed right now as a romantic object, under the wire of all that in the culture the real thing moves in next door. And the real thing is a killer. Just a predator. It’s the shark from Jaws. On the outside it’s a seductive package and it looks like a human being, but it’s just about ripping your throat out and drinking your blood. And introducing that kind of vampire into the current environment.

I think the original is almost 50/50 or even more laughs than scares. And I think we’re going to have appropriate dark humor and sardonic humor and sarcastic humor and erotic humor, but not tongue-in-cheek or cheesy humor but really go for some scares.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” producer-writer Marti Noxon is handling writing duties. A director and cast has yet to be attached.