I’ve been meaning to cross-post some movies from the Monsterdon watch party announcements on [email protected] since they usually link to full movies online, and Halloween-A-Thon seems like a great opportunity to do it! (I haven’t actually seen this one btw… dunno if it’s any good… this was the watch party on Oct 5 but I had something else going on…)

The film follows teenager Charley Brewster (played by William Ragsdale), who discovers that his next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry’s killing spree.

The film was released on August 2, 1985, and grossed $24.9 million at the box office. Since its release, it has received positive reviews from critics and become a cult classic, and spawned the media franchise of the same name.
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Fright Night garnered critical acclaim, holding a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the average rating is 7.2/10 based on 38 reviews. The site’s consensus reads: “Fright Night deftly combines thrills and humor in this ghostly tale about a man living next to a vampire.”[32]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, “Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished”.[33] Variety praised Sarandon’s performance, writing that he “is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow”.[34] Colin Greenland gave a negative review for White Dwarf #75, stating “We may be justified in suspecting that a film which has such contempt for its characters has contempt for its audience, too.”[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fright_Night