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Title: Fright Night (1985)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Chris Sarandon | ... | Jerry Dandrige | |
| William Ragsdale | ... | Charley Brewster | |
| Amanda Bearse | ... | Amy Peterson | |
| Roddy McDowall | ... | Peter Vincent | |
| Stephen Geoffreys | ... | Evil Ed | |
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Jonathan Stark | ... | Billy Cole |
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Dorothy Fielding | ... | Judy Brewster |
| Art Evans | ... | Detective Lennox (as Art J. Evans) | |
| Stewart Stern | ... | Cook | |
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Nick Savage | ... | Bouncer #1 |
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Ernie Holmes | ... | Bouncer #2 |
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Heidi Sorenson | ... | Hooker |
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Irina Irvine | ... | Teenage Girl |
| Bob Corff | ... | Jonathan (as Robert Corff) | |
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Pamela Brown | ... | Miss Nina |
For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money... Written by Anonymous
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After watching this film just Friday, I have already found this film to be a very memorable piece of work by Tom Holland who did Psycho II and of coarse Child's Play.
The story is about a kid who believes that there's a Vampire living next to him. He tries to notify that people are being murdered by the blood thirsty Jerry but nobody will believe him. He then looks up to the famous horror vampire killer on TV, Peter Vincent who he believes will help him stop Jerry and his buddy.
First watching Child's Play and now Fright Night (Another horror film I should have watched ages ago..) Tom Holland does a top notch job on creating the right amount of humour, scares and disturbance for us to feast on. I believe like Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper or even John Carpentar, Tom Holland is a legend in the horror business as in this film he can create the right mood like he created the right scares for Child's Play.
Chris Sarandon does an excellent job as the charming but sinister Jerry Dandrige who takes people in and posses them with his evil love. I just could not get over how great Chris Sarandon was in this vampire role.
I usually hate vampires and vampire films but with Tom Holland's great direction and once again memorable scenes and Chris Sarandon's perfect-o acting, I believe that now I like vampires (well only Sarandon's for now).
The other actors where casted perfectly for their roles and the special vampire and wolf effects and even the concept are all done well.
They say they are going to release a remake of Fright Night this year. All I can say is that I've looked at the trailer and it looks fail. The new actor playing Jerry Dandrige doesn't look like he'll be able to pull it off, he just can't do it and the whole remaking of the story looks like a complete mess. I have no hopes for the remake.
The original from me gets 9 bloody vampires out of 10.