"Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead."Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead."Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 5 nominations
Art Evans
- Detective Lennox
- (as Art J. Evans)
Prince Hughes
- Bouncer #3
- (as Prince A. Hughes)
Christopher Lee
- Dracula
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIt was Chris Sarandon's idea to have Jerry eating apples throughout the film. While researching vampire lore, Sarandon looked at information about bats and concluded, "Jerry had a lot of fruit bat in his DNA."
- GoofsIn the attack scene in Charley's bedroom, Jerry Dandrige has his hand around Charley's neck and Charley drives a pencil into the top of his hand. In the next scene, Jerry pulls his hand away and looks at the pencil, and it is sticking more than halfway through his hand. If the pencil has been shoved that far down, it would have pierced Charley halfway through his neck.
- Quotes
[Jerry welcomes Charley and Peter Vincent to his home]
Jerry Dandrige: Welcome to... Fright... Night! For real.
- Crazy creditsJust as the screen cuts to black at the end, Evil Ed can be heard saying, "You're so cool, Brewster!"
- Alternate versionsThe Swedish version (cinema and video) misses the following: The transformation scene with Ed was removed (1m 50sec), and the scene where Dandrige's assistant melts was shortened by 16 sec.
- ConnectionsEdited into Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
- SoundtracksFright Night
Written by Joe Lamont
Produced by Seth Justman
Performed by The J. Geils Band
Courtesy of EMI America Records, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
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So much better then the remake.
This is another one of those examples where the classic is way better then the original. The remake completely changed the story line I would not even really call it a remake.The acting in this one is good and the special effects are actually creepy instead of that CGI crap. Really is a great classic horror.
This movie is about a young guy named Charlie Brewster. While spying on his neighbours one day he sees things to lead him to the suspicion that his new neighbour is a vampire. He is scared for his life while everyone else is scared for his sanity.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid it used to be scary then but now its just funny and enjoyable. Must see for horror fans if not might not enjoy it so much.
This movie is about a young guy named Charlie Brewster. While spying on his neighbours one day he sees things to lead him to the suspicion that his new neighbour is a vampire. He is scared for his life while everyone else is scared for his sanity.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid it used to be scary then but now its just funny and enjoyable. Must see for horror fans if not might not enjoy it so much.
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- Oct 26, 2012
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Die rabenschwarze Nacht - Fright Night
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,922,237
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,118,543
- Aug 4, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $24,923,585
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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