Who is Regine? What has she done?
A mysterious, beautiful (seemingly) young woman who moves into Peter Vincent's apartment building, Regine enters Charley's life three years after the events of the first film, when his psychotherapist Dr. Harrison has finally convince our hero his memories of Jerry were the result of trauma from being attacked by a cultist serial killer posing as a vampire. As Charley and his new girlfriend Alex drive home from Peter's Regine uses her bat form to follow them and rests atop Charley's car, sending him visions as she plots to vamperize him.
Dispatching her underlings to deal with Alex herself, her moronic henchman Louie unfortunately becomes smitten with Alex and tries to woo her instead. Meanwhile, Regine makes a point of being seen with Charley's roommate Richie, looking at Charley through her apartment window as she bites into Richie's neck. When Peter and Charley go to investigate, she passes the whole thing off as part of an elaborate, horror-themed costume party and convinces Charley she's just an actress, though Peter catches her lack of reflection in a mirror. As Peter attempts to flee, Regine corners him, revealing she's Jerry's sister out for revenge and warns him her beef is with Charley and to stay out of her way.
As she isolates Peter, Regine also works on seducing Charley with her charms and vampiric hypnosis, using many opportunities to bite at a wound in his neck and beginning his transformation as part of her plan to make him an immortal as he becomes the very thing he hates for her to torment eternally. Peter fails to convince Charley of her true nature and she takes his spot on Fright Night, revitalizing the show to huge popularity and having him interned for looking insane as he tries to stab her to death on air.
Dr. Harrison arrives to keep Alex at bay while Regine keeps Peter in a mental hospital. The doctor reveals himself as one of her vampire servants and attempts to kill Alex (eventually killing himself politely in a hilarious scene after Alex fails to stake him properly) and manages to help Peter escape the hospital with the assistance of a randomly supportive patient who believes Peter's claims about the existence of vampires.
Heading to Regine's lair, they encounter a partially transformed Charley who nearly gives into Regine's demands for him to kill his friends after they meddled in her affairs one too many times. Barely snapping out of her control, Regine and her henchmen attack the heroes, the vampire leader shrieking in rage when her friends/underlings are killed and fighting fiercely even while alone. Changing from her monstrous form back to her usual, alluring one, Regine nearly seduces Charley to give into her until Peter manages to reflect sunlight via a mirror into the tunnel she's hiding in, burning her alive. From her wafer-lined coffin, Regine defiantly reaches a boney arm out to the sky before finally expiring.
Actions and personality?
Regine is a seductive manipulator and her actress' performance is one of the best things about this step down from the original masterpiece. She embodies Vampires Are Sex Gods just like her brother and masterfully sets about destroying Charley while having Peter declared insane and only an unforeseen Spanner in the Works can get Peter and Alex to her lair to try and stop her.
She plants Dr. Harrison exactly as needed and plays a fantastic game having Charley denounce his own beliefs in the supernatural while isolating him from anything that could prompt him back on her tail and has a cool charm with her theatrics set to trick her foe into thinking her a mere actress while subtly drawing him into her trap.
Mitigating factors?
What she's planning to do to Charley is soul-destroyingly awful but it's Fright Night and Evil Is One Big, Happy Family is a thing. He took her beloved brother from her and even in her rage she keeps her focus on her enemy. Obviously she's a vampire who needs blood to survive but her body count is quite low and she's even willing to let Peter be brushed aside as long as she can take her revenge on Charley himself.
Verdict?
Pleased yes, great villain this one.
What's Jerry doing here?
The same Affably Evil vampire we all know and love, he's killed in the first two issues which act as an abbreviated retelling of the 1985 classic. Come issue 16, however, the witch Constance Beauegard, at the behest of the Legion of Endless Night lead vampire Jacob Hinnault, seeks to resurrect the powerful progenitor who they believe will help them Take Over the World. Partially brought back through Constance's ritual even after her death, Jacob leads his followers to use the blood of virgin vampires to fully restore Jerry's soul. Further empowering Jerry via a resistance to daylight his scientists discovered, the two nearly kill all the heroes until Claudia—aunt of Charley's new girlfriend Natalia and vampire expert—exploits his weakness to count bird seed and the two are forced to flee.
in Jacob's villa, he lures Natalia (Jacob's daughter) and tries to have Jerry turn her. While Jacob is staked and killed, Jerry manages to escape and sets about restoring the Legion. As charming as ever, Jerry seduces a prostitute in Paris, Lili, turning her and making her his right-hand woman as the two set about feeding and turning more vampires to replenish the ranks.
Utterly unstoppable for the American Anti-Monster Society Claudia has tried to form, they're fortunately joined by Evil Ed, who wishes to settle accounts with his old foe. When Ed hunts him down, Jerry nearly overpowers and kills him and when the Anti-Monster Society comes, Jerry calls upon his now day walking followers lead by Lili and prepares to square off... unfortunately the very accident prone rookies' mistakes happen to wind up killing the vampires through amusing happenstance (ex.: tripping while holding up a stake one of Jerry's vampires falls on) and a downed Ed gets up to stake Jerry non-fatally. Jerry is forced to retreat with Lili and...
... the comic got canceled there, sorry guys!
Actions and personality?
Jerry's as great as ever even if he's absent for most of the work. From the moment of Jacob's death he's able to swiftly set about reviving the League and he's clever with luring in humans, unlike Jacob comes across as a Benevolent Boss to Lili and even pulls one over on the likewise sharp Ed to nearly kill him in the final chapter.
Mitigating factors?
He's subordinate to Jacob while the latter plans to turn the planet into a snack ground for vampires but he's largely just an underling, if a strong one at that point, he doesn't go about the "Puny humans" thing like Jacob and the main thing again is he cares for his followers, while Jacob will kill them at the drop of a hat.
Verdict?
Happy yes.
Who is Constance Beauregard? What has she done?
Seemingly the proprietor of an occult bookstore Aunt Claudia visits to find a source detailing potential leads on Jerry's type of vampire to fight his sire Ed, Constance interrupts Claudia's trip to her shop by giving her a "complimentary" spray of her signature perfume... that makes the wearer follow her bidding. Also seducing basketball player Moves Wilson, Constance is revealed to the reader to be the head of a witch coven—inherited from her beloved mother—and plotting with the Legion of the Endless Night of vampires to revive Jerry.
After the potion wears off on Claudia, she makes her way to Peter's apartment and the group manage to have his scientist friend discover the perfume works like a mind control device. While Natalia doses off watching her aunt, she makes her way back to Constance's penthouse, where the ritual begins. As her mom chastises her for the new age witch ritual, Constance makes contact with Jerry's spirit... but the heroes manage to make their way in!
Sending her demonic minions after them, Charley tackles her out a window. Her coven loses their powers and her monsters disappear with her death but Moves has begun his transformation.
Actions and personality?
For a single chapter villain she's an effective manipulator, skilled sorceress and even gets fun banter with her "old witch" style mom disliking her trendier lifestyle.
Mitigating factors?
No, she plays her role pretty well.
Verdict?
Last for the comics.
Who is Evil Ed? What has he done?
Edward Lee is Charley's estranged former best friend who's been tailing the vampire Jerry since his arrival in Los Vegas. A bullied but bright kid, Ed's friend Adam is murdered by Jerry when he catches him and when Adam is absent the next day at school, Ed blackmails Charley into helping him investigate. The two get into a squabble over Charley's newfound popularity and Ed heads home alone... running into Jerry and keeping the vampire at bay until Jerry seduces him with promises to make him feel accepted, causing Ed to put down his cross and accept vampirism.
Posing as a delivery boy at Peter Vincent's penthouse when Charley is hiding out there, Ed manipulates vampire rules and accepts the invitation. An extremely effective servant to his evil master, Ed both destroys Peter's elevator to prevent escape and uses his own presence to invite Jerry himself into the house. Fighting his former best friend while continuing to go on with the snark he's always been known for, Ed is eventually overpowered by both Charley and his girlfriend Amy, calming down in his last moments to forgive Charley as he crumbles to ash.
Actions and personality?
He's supposed to be a huge loser but Christopher Mintz-Plasse makes him beyond hilarious and after giving in to Jerry deploys his well-versed knowledge of vampires, swiftly lining not one or two but three cunning ploys from his entrance, disabling of the elevator and own invitation to Jerry even in his brief screen time as a villain.
Mitigating factors?
He can get pretty savage decrying Amy as an idiot but he's implied to be a lonely gay kid who had his only friend leave him, besides, he's funny, smart and nowhere near as bad as Jerry here.
Verdict?
Happy yes to good ol' Evil Ed.
