Fright Night

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Sexual Situations * Nudity * Not Particularly Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1985/Color/105 Min./RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vistar Films & Columbia-Delphi IV Productions/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Tom Holland (</B><I><B>Child's Play, Fatal Beauty, The Temp</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay....Tom Holland</B></div> <div> <B>Music.............Brad Fiedel</B></div> <div> <B>Producer........Herb Jaffe</B></div> <div> <B>Visual Effects Art Director..John Bruno</B></div> <div> <B>Creatures Designed & Created by Randall William Cook & Steve Johnson</B></div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Peter Vincent..........Roddy McDowall (</B><I><B>Arnold, Cutting Class, Fright Night II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Jerry Dandrige........Chris Sarandon (</B><I><B>Child's Play, The Sentinal, Whispers</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Charlie Brewster.....William Ragsdale (</B><I><B>Mannequin Two, Fright Night II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Amy........................Amanda Bearse (</B><I><B>First Affair, Married with Children</B></I><B>-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Evil Ed....................Stephen Geoffreys (</B><I><B>The Chair, 976-Evil, Moon 44</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Billy Cole...............Jonathan Stark (</B><I><B>House II: The Second Story, Project X</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Judy Brewster........Dorothy Fielding</B></div> <div> <B>Detective Lennox...Art J. Evans (</B><I><B>CB4, Die Hard 2, Mom, Native Son</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Cook......................Stewart Stern</B></div> <div> <B>Bouncer #1.............Nick Savage</B></div> <div> <B>Bouncer #2.............Ernie Holmes</B></div> <div> <B>Hooker....................Heidi Sorensen</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Charlie, his friends, and a washed-up movie Von Helsing take on a real vampire who moves into the scary house beside Charlie's. Amen! Finally, a modern vampire we can care about and a movie where the timing and attention to detail, pace lighting scenery and first rate writing and acting from beginning to start. Nods to and fun with the entire history of vampire movie-making; the house from </B><I><B>Salem's Lot</B></I><B>, a Max Schreck-</B><I><B>Nosferatu </B></I><B>stand-up move, Frank Langella's wall-walking act, etc. Need we go on?  This movie also boasts remarkable special effects. Vampirous Amy is absolutely chilling. No crummy wax-plastic bats in this one. The music is even good. A modern triumph with a vampire in it. Filmmakers! Pay attention. Here are actors with a story in a movie with a director. It may be a while til you get such a chance again. It wouldn't be fair to single out anyone in the outstanding cast but we will. This is the role Roddy MacDowall was born and raised and fated to play, Chris Sarandon may actually be a suave vampire in real life, Stephen Geoffreys really possessed, and Jonathan Stark a smug zombie - the casting is that good. Dorothy Fielding, Amanda Bearce and William Ragsdale are all perfectly over the top. Yes, good, funny, and it's even scary. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Peter Vincent Vampire Killer (Roddy MacDowall) arrives in the nick of time, holding out a crude wooden cross. This cheep Von Helsing is a TV show "Fright Night", hosting B-horror movies ignored by a pair of teens. But one of the teens is distracted by people hauling coffins in the next house. A knockout blonde arrives at 99 Oak, next door. Our teenager is studying when there's a scream next door. Next thing you know, the blonde who he saw is reported as  murdered hooker. Brewster goes over to the cellar door next door, but someone is there and warns him away. Charlie is out watching the vampires and his mother calls him, alerting the vampires as to his presence. Charlie brings a policeman to the house, telling the policeman that the murdered girl had been there. Things go all right a while, but then he starts talking about vampires sleeping the sleep of the undead and he's given the bum's rush. Evil tells Charlie that the Vampire can't enter the house unless asked to come in by an owner of the house. Well, look who mother's invited over for a drink. He can come any time he wants. That night, Charlie is chucked around his room in a riveting scene. However, a pencil through the hand thwarts the vampire momentarily. Charlie goes to Peter Vincent with his story, and Vincent bemoans the fact that all Charlie's generation is interested in is maniacs running around in ski masks, bothering young virgins. He then drives away in his Studebaker. Amy suggests that she try with Vincent. She goes to him and tries the story again. Vincent is pondering his notice of eviction. He agrees to help them for $500. Dandridge is called, and it is agreed that they prove to Charlie that Dandridge is no vampire. Unfortunately, Dandridge fails the reflection test. Evel, now vampirized, goes to get Vincent. "Hurry, let me in, there's a vampire out here.' Fortunately, Vincent's got the tools of his trade there. As usual, Dandridge has picked out Amy because she looks like a woman he knew long ago. Amy is brought back and Vampirized. Vincent and Charlie enter, stakes and crosses at the ready and a wealth of movieland solutions at their disposal. Now all they need is a little faith. Nice interlude with Evil. The live in carpenter dissolves as well. Unfortunately, Vincent hasn't the faith required for his cross to work against Dandridge.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>