Fright Night

There are some very good reasons to be afraid of the dark

FRIGHT NIGHT (18)

D: Tom Holland

Columbia (Herb Jaffe)

USA 🇺🇸 1985

105 mins

Horror/Comedy

W: Tom Holland

DP: Jan Kiesser

Ed: Kent Beyda

Mus: Brad Fiedel

Chris Sarandon (Jerry Dandridge), William Ragsdale (Charley Brewster), Amanda Bearse (Amy Peterson), Roddy McDowell (Peter Vincent), Stephen Geoffreys (Edward Thompson), Jonathan Stark (Billy Cole)

It may not be the best horror movie of the 1980's, but it probably has the best poster!

A tongue-in-cheek spin on Dracula mythology with a good amount of 1980's cheese.

A teenage boy suspects his next door neighbour of being a vampire and takes his suspicions to his own equivalent of Van Helsing, a horror TV host who doesn't take the claims at all seriously.

It's all quite cartoonish and works better as a comedy rather than a horror, but is entertaining throughout it's duration. A sequel followed in 1988 before a miscast remake materialised in 2011.

6/10