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Fright Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fright Night is a 1. American horror film written and directed by Tom Holland and produced by Herb Jaffe. It stars William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy Mc.
Dowall, and Amanda Bearse. The film is also the directorial debut of Holland. The film follows young Charley Brewster, who discovers that his next- door neighbor, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire.
When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent, 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, 1. Over the years, the film gained more reappraisal by critics and has since gained a cult following. The film was followed by a sequel, Fright Night II in 1.
With Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant. A remake of the 1985 original, teenager Charley Brewster (Yelchin) guesses that his new neighbor. Fright Night is a 2011 American supernatural comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie, and produced by Michael De Luca and Alison Rosenzweig. Amazon.com: Fright Night: Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Gillespie: Movies & TV.
- Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all-he's running with the popular crowd and dating the hottest girl in high school. In fact, he's so cool he's.
- This horror-comedy sequel finds the teen protagonist of Fright Night being terrorized by the undead sister of the vampire he killed in the original film. Two years.
- Fright Night is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by Tom Holland and produced by Herb Jaffe. It stars William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall.
Fright Night 2: New Blood in 2. Seventeen- year- old Charley Brewster is a fan of both traditional horror films and a horror TV series entitled Fright Night, hosted by former movie vampire hunter Peter Vincent.
One evening, Charley discovers that his new next door neighbour Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire responsible for the disappearences of several victims. Charley tries to tell his mother and asks his friends for help.
In desperation, he contacts the police, but they believe that he is imagining things and ignore his claims after revealing his suspicions to them when he accompanies a homicide officer to Jerry's house. That night, Charley gets a visit from Jerry, who offers Charley a "choice" by forgetting about his vampire identity, but he refuses by using his crucifix on Jerry. When Jerry stops Charley and slowly tries to push him out the window to his death, he stabs Jerry's hand with a pencil. Enraged, Jerry destroys Charley's car in retaliation and threatens Charley that he plans to do much worse to him later. Charley turns to Peter Vincent for help, but Peter dismisses Charley as an obsessed fan.
Charley's girlfriend, Amy Peterson, fears for Charley's sanity and safety, resulting her hiring the destitute Vincent to "prove" that Jerry is not a vampire by having him drink what they claim is "holy water", but it turns out to only be tap water; Jerry having claimed to Peter that drinking actual holy water would be against his religious convictions. Vincent discovers Jerry's true nature after glancing at his pocket mirror and noticing Jerry's lack of a reflection, causing him to accidentally drop and smash the mirror.
Vincent then flees, but Jerry learns of his discovery after finding a piece of his pocket mirror on the floor. Jerry hunts down and turns Charley's friend, "Evil" Ed Thompson, into a vampire. Evil then visits Vincent and tries to attack him, only to be warded off when injured by a crucifix. Meanwhile, Jerry chases Charley and Amy into a club.
While Charley is trying to call the police for help, Jerry hypnotizes and abducts Amy who bears a resemblance to Jerry's lost love (whom Jerry has a painting of). With nowhere left to turn, Charley attempts to gain Vincent's help once more.
A frightened Vincent (following Evil's attack) initially refuses, but he then reluctantly resumes his "Vampire Killer" role as Charley approaches his neighbour's house. The two are able to repel Jerry's attack using a crucifix, though only Charley's works since he has faith in its spiritual power.
Jerry's protector, Billy Cole, appears and knocks Charley unconscious over the banister, having Vincent flees to Charley's house. At his house, he finds that Mrs. Brewster is still not home and is attacked by Evil, who transforms into a wolf. Vincent seemingly kills him after staking him through the heart but later removes the stake.
Meanwhile, an unconscious Charley is taken to Amy who has been turned into a vampire by Jerry. Vincent says the process can be reversed, but only if they kill Jerry before dawn. Charley and Vincent are then confronted by Billy whom Vincent shoots since he saw his reflection in the mirror. However, Billy is revealed to be a zombie- like creature, who rises again and continues advancing towards them until he is killed by Charley who stakes him and then melts into goo and dust.
Jerry appears, but Vincent is able to lure the overconfident vampire in front of a window using a crucifix (now working due to his renewed faith in its abilities). Just before the morning sun, Jerry transforms into a bat and attacks Vincent and Charley (biting Charley in the process) before fleeing to his coffin in the basement. Charley and Vincent go in pursuit of Jerry; Vincent breaks open Jerry's coffin and tries to stake him through the heart whilst Charley has to fight off Amy who has completed her transformation. By breaking the blacked- out windows in the basement, Vincent and Charley expose Jerry to the sunlight and kills him. Jerry's death leads Amy reverting to her human form and the three embrace.
A few nights later, Vincent returns to his Fright Night TV series and announces a hiatus from vampires by instead presenting Octaman. The series is being watched by Charley and Amy as they embrace together in bed. When Charley goes to turn off the TV, he at first sees red eyes in Jerry's now- vacant house, but dismisses them. Unbeknownst to both Charley and Amy, a survived Evil with red eyes (hiding in the darkness) laughs and says "Oh, you're so cool, Brewster!"Production[edit]Development[edit]While writing the script for Cloak & Dagger,[5]Tom Holland amused himself when he conceived the idea of a horror- movie fan becoming convinced that his next door neighbor was a vampire, but he didn't initially think this premise was enough to sustain a story.
What's he gonna do," Holland asked, "because everybody's gonna think he's mad!"[6] The story percolated in his mind for a year and finally one day while discussing it with John Byers, then the head of the story department at Columbia Pictures,[5] he finally figured out what the boy would do. Of course, he's gonna go to Vincent Price!'"[6] In that era, many local TV affiliates in the United States had horror hosts (perhaps the most famous are Zacherle, Svengoolie, and the nationally syndicated Elvira), so Holland decided it would be natural for the boy to seek aid from his local host. The minute I had Peter Vincent, I had the story. Charley Brewster was the engine, but Peter Vincent was the heart."[7] Once he'd conceived that character, Holland knocked out the first draft of the script in three weeks.[5][6][8] "And I was laughing the entire time, literally on the floor, kicking my feet in the air in hysterics."[5]Holland wrote the film for himself to direct, in part because he was so disheartened by the film that was ultimately made from his previous screenplay, Scream for Help,[6][8][9] and he'd developed enough of clout from the successes of his screenplays for Class of 1.
Psycho II, and Cloak & Dagger that the head of Columbia Pictures said, "Let's take a chance on the hot screenwriter kid,"[1. Fright Night would be as successful as it ultimately became. Casting[edit]The Peter Vincent character was named after horror icons Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, and Holland specifically wrote the part for Price,[5][8] but at this point in his career, Price had been so badly typecast that he had stopped accepting roles in horror movies.[1. Guy Mc. Elwaine, then the head of Columbia Pictures, suggested Roddy Mc. Dowall for the part.[1. Mc. Dowall had already starred in the Holland- penned film Class of 1. Holland was immediately receptive to the suggestion.
He understood the part," commented Holland, "and he also understood what he could do with it, and he really wanted it!"[7] Mc. Dowall was particularly interested in the genesis of the character. In the film, I perform as being in my late 2. I'm the washed- up hasbeen," Mc. Dowall adding that the role interested him because, "I'd never played anything that old."[1. Holland and Mc. Dowall built a lasting friendship, and Mc. Dowall eventually invited Holland to a dinner party where he introduced him to Vincent Price, who was flattered that the part was an homage to him and commented that the film "was wonderful and he thought Roddy did a wonderful job."[5]Chris Sarandon's agent gave him a copy of the script and he replied, “there’s no way I can do a horror movie,"[9] but he decided to give the script a once- over and was immediately captivated by it.
I thought this is one of the best scripts I've read in a long time," Sarandon said, "beautifully constructed, it was obvious that this was a labor of love, it was clear that the writer/director's approach to it was one of wanting to have fun with the genre without making fun of it, the characters were beautifully drawn."[8] Sarandon was worried about being typecast as a villain, but the script resonated with him because the story was deeper than just an average monster movie. Forgetting about vampirism, what this film is about on one level is an older man trying to take a younger man's girl away from him," commented Holland.[1. Although he liked the screenplay, Sarandon was still leery of working with a first- time director, so he flew to L. A. to meet Tom Holland and producer Herb Jaffe. He and Holland had an immediate rapport (and went on to make several more films together), and Sarandon was awed that Holland had the film so completely mapped out that he "literally described the movie shot- by- shot all the way through - page- by- page, scene- by- scene. It was basically the way he shot it."[8]Jonathan Stark wasn't a fan of vampire films at all, but he also liked the script. The Billy Cole character was written as a hulking giant, so Stark padded himself with extra clothing when he went in to audition.[8] At auditions, he read the scene in which he's being questioned by the detective, which was written to be played straight.
I'm thinking if I'm sitting there being evil," Stark commented, "the lieutenant's gonna get suspicious.