"Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead."Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead."Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 5 nominations total
Art Evans
- Detective Lennox
- (as Art J. Evans)
Prince Hughes
- Bouncer #3
- (as Prince A. Hughes)
Christopher Lee
- Dracula
- (archive footage)
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One Great one
After all this years (20) of vampire slaughtering, Blade's karate Vs vampire flicks, or even Carpenter's Rambo characters, Fright Night still offers the scent of a classic. Tom Holland's masterpiece holds by itself because of a great cast and a plot that gathers every single cliché of the genre and plays a bit with humor and a lot of effective spooks. Roddy Mc Dowall steals the movie with his over the hill terrified looser character. Even special effects are bizarre today as they're a craftsmanship result giving some scenes a bizarre concept that takes you directly into Roger Corman's "B" world. A true pleasure to watch from time to time. Happy 20 years
One of the best vampire movies from the 80's
Fright Night is a good horror film. It's not scary but well made. It has enough violence to make a true horror bugf happy. It also has a good story. It's well made, written and acted. It's hard to believe thos movie is almost 40 years old. I remember seeing it heavily edited on broadcast television before I got a chance to rent it. Television cut out good stuff. I think the most interesting character is the vampire. Mr. Sarandon was convincing as the neighbor from hell. William Ragsdale along with Roddy McDowell played their parts to the hilt. I recommend watching this in the dark with someone who loves old movies as much as you do.
Its as 80's as 80's can get
The 80's dropped a few movies of this ilk that blended horror themes with comedy (House being another good one). Plants its tongue firmly in its cheek and just focuses on being entertaining. Its really good fun.
Chris Sarandon is absolutely fantastic in this and the rest of cast contribute well.
Keep an eye on your neighbour, you never know who lives next door?
Chris Sarandon is absolutely fantastic in this and the rest of cast contribute well.
Keep an eye on your neighbour, you never know who lives next door?
The first horror movie i've ever seen
Classic, good vampire movie. Maybe not a great one, but still one of my favourites.
So much better then the remake.
This is another one of those examples where the classic is way better then the original. The remake completely changed the story line I would not even really call it a remake.The acting in this one is good and the special effects are actually creepy instead of that CGI crap. Really is a great classic horror.
This movie is about a young guy named Charlie Brewster. While spying on his neighbours one day he sees things to lead him to the suspicion that his new neighbour is a vampire. He is scared for his life while everyone else is scared for his sanity.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid it used to be scary then but now its just funny and enjoyable. Must see for horror fans if not might not enjoy it so much.
This movie is about a young guy named Charlie Brewster. While spying on his neighbours one day he sees things to lead him to the suspicion that his new neighbour is a vampire. He is scared for his life while everyone else is scared for his sanity.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid it used to be scary then but now its just funny and enjoyable. Must see for horror fans if not might not enjoy it so much.
Did you know
- TriviaBecause of his theatrical roots and the long hours spent in the makeup chair, Chris Sarandon helped apply his own vampire makeup and often worked on the finger extensions while the makeup artists were putting appliances on his face.
- GoofsIn the attack scene in Charley's bedroom, Jerry Dandrige has his hand around Charley's neck and Charley drives a pencil into the top of his hand. In the next scene, Jerry pulls his hand away and looks at the pencil, and it is sticking more than halfway through his hand. If the pencil has been shoved that far down, it would have pierced Charley halfway through his neck.
- Quotes
[Jerry welcomes Charley and Peter Vincent to his home]
Jerry Dandrige: Welcome to... Fright... Night! For real.
- Crazy creditsJust as the screen cuts to black at the end, Evil Ed can be heard saying, "You're so cool, Brewster!"
- Alternate versionsThe Swedish version (cinema and video) misses the following: The transformation scene with Ed was removed (1m 50sec), and the scene where Dandrige's assistant melts was shortened by 16 sec.
- ConnectionsEdited into Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
- SoundtracksFright Night
Written by Joe Lamont
Produced by Seth Justman
Performed by The J. Geils Band
Courtesy of EMI America Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
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- Also known as
- La hora del espanto
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,922,237
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,118,543
- Aug 4, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $24,924,175
- Runtime
- 1h 46m(106 min)
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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