Waste of time

Better Late Then Never

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

As this film opens seventeen year old Charley Brewster is kissing his girlfriend Amy while a horror movie plays in the background. He complains that she won't go as far as he would like… then she offers to sleep with him but now he is watching the new neighbours taking what appears to be a coffin into their house. She is not impressed with his behaviour. The next night he thinks he sees the neighbour murdering a woman; biting her in the neck with his obvious fangs. He reports a vampire attack but understandably the police don't believe his story of modern day vampires. The neighbour Jerry Dandrige soon pays Charley a visit and it is clear that he really is a vampire. Wanting help Charley seeks out Peter Vincent, an actor who starred in many vampire films and presents 'Fright Night', a late night horror show. He is not interested but later, after being approached by Amy and Charley's friend 'Evil Ed' who persuade him to show Charley that Dandrige is human… he has quite a shock when he sees that Dandrige has no reflection in a mirror. Initially he just wants to get away but ultimately he and Charley will confront Dandrige in order to save Amy, who he has bitten.I enjoyed this film more than I expected; it has some good scary moments and plenty of tongue in cheek humour. The physical effects are pretty impressive and can be quite gruesome at times. The story is entertaining; I liked that nobody, including the 'vampire hunter' believed Charley until they saw concrete proof that Dandrige is a vampire. William Ragsdale does a solid job as protagonist Charley and Amanda Bearse and Stephen Geoffreys are fun as Amy and Evil Ed. Chris Sarandon is impressive as the suave Dandridge; both menacing and seductive. It is Roddy McDowall however who is most memorable; he is great as Peter Vincent the cowardly TV vampire killer who ends up doing it for real. The tension increases nicely towards the end, but not at the expense of humour, giving us an enjoyable final confrontation. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of '80s horror; it isn't the scariest horror film but it is a lot of fun.

When Charley Brewster, a young dweeb of an idiot who for unknown reason cannot kiss and make-out with his girlfriend, accidentally saw his suave 'bisexual' neighbor slash vampire, Jerry, devour one of his hapless victim, Charley tries to caught him in the act once again against the discouragement of his disbelieving family and friends. This ultimately fails and in turn he and every person his closed with is pursued to be the vampire's next victim. I would not lie this film has a lot of problems to begin with. Its universe is oddly inconsistent in its lore and story-wise, it does not really offer anything new. But it oddly worked for me. Its lack of ambition and overall conviction of its characters gave it a enjoyable self-serious melodramatic camp that had been lost in a lot of film nowadays. It is also inventively successful in integrating vampire tropes and styles to fit in a kitschy eighties. A true surprise, Fright Night tells you that it does not need perfect to be likable. Its just need to be true to itself to be great [4.5/5]

When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him. I never actually got to see this film until today and i just now i finished it and i gotta say Fright Night is probably one of the coolest Vampire Movies ever Made. The 80's music is fantastic, the characters are well made and react how actual people would react and not the stupidity we see this days, the special effects and the prosthetics are some of the best that i have seen from Amy's creepy new look to even Billy Cole's epic death and let's not forget that awesome Wolf Scene Transformation and i kept wondering how they did all that i mean it's a 1985 film for god shakes. Also the acting is pretty damn good Chris Sarandon who plays the Vampire is really good and he does have a creepy vibe to him from the way he moves to even the way he talks especially when he transforms plus that Club scene was so Terminator (1984), Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent just a great great character that keeps developing as the film goes on and William Ragsdale as Charley Brewster the kid reacts the way that every person with an actual brain would react if he or she learned that their neighbor is a Vampire or a Werewolf. Overall great film and in my opinion probably one of the best Vampire films ever made and it's definitely way better than just a pathetic 7.1 common IMDb!!!

FRIGHT NIGHT, one of the essential vampire horror films of the '80s, succeeds in being a far better spoof of the vampire genre than Polanski's THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS. Whereas Polanski's film tried too hard to be funny, FRIGHT NIGHT lets the horror and comedy flow in equal amounts, and often the two feed off each other to produce this enjoyable and campy tribute to the vampire film. Horror film addicts (like myself) will enjoy the many references to other vampire films of the past. McDowall has a portrait of Bela Lugosi on his wall, and there are many clips of horror films playing on television sets, from THE PREMATURE BURIAL to THE SCARS OF Dracula. Even the theme of vampires not being destroyed unless the protagonist has absolute faith, explored in Dracula HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, turns up again here.The cast all do good jobs in their roles, and happily this time the female heroine (who looks strangely like Stockard Channing in GREASE) has more to do than sit around in a flimsy negligee and scream (although, unsurprisingly, she does both during the course of the film). William Ragsdale is likable as the hero who nobody believes and whom everyone thinks is merely paranoid, a theme resurfacing these days in the world of conspiracies. Chris Sarandon is a cool and suave vampire, and acquits himself well with the role, putting across a sense of raw power and hypnotism, just like Christopher Lee did before him.Stephen Geoffreys is memorably nerve-wracked as Evil Ed, however it is Roddy McDowall who is the real star of the film, as fading star Peter Vincent (obviously reference to Peter Cushing and Vincent Price here). He looks the role perfectly, and is great as the rather timid hero who doesn't actually believe in vampires and turns white at the thought. While the plot of the film is nothing particularly new (and a lot like that of THE 'BURBS), it stays fresh and frantic enough to never delve into the clichéd territory of THE LOST BOYS.The makeup is also remarkable, with the spiky fangs and coloured contact lenses being very similar to the makeup job done in the two Italian DEMONS films. In some instances the vampires even look quite scary, which is no mean feat. There are also two excellent disintegration scenes which are worth tuning in for. The shots of a skeleton burning and melting against a wall look very strange and different, I'm not sure if these were animated or not but they certainly stand out from the other rubbery offerings we have come to expect from '80s horror films.With a wry nod to the horror genre in general (McDowall remarks that nobody wants to see vampire films anymore, instead preferring ski-masked killers murdering virgins) and a tongue definitely in cheek, FRIGHT NIGHT is a fun film which deserves the status it has as a minor classic. Well worth seeking out if you're a vampire fan. A sequel, imaginatively titled FRIGHT NIGHT 2, followed a couple of years later.