Customer Reviews
Welcome to Fright Night for real - By: Kenneth Lewis, 24 Feb 2008 
I love every bit of Fright Night. The music is truly awful 80s disco,the teenagers are very annoying & the central vampire is so over the top. The real highlight is Roddy Mcdowell as Peter Vincent (price & cushing perhaps) vampire killer or so his film fans think.
The story Charlie & Amy are about to have their first intimate encounter when Charlie is obsessed with what he sees out of the window(yeah right). Charlie is convinced his new suave neighbour is up to something especiallly when the pretty women who visit alll seem to be found dead. Charlie starts to stalk his neighbour & callls on his friends to rallly round they don't seem to believe him neither do the police. Despite the obvious facts he never leaves the house during the day at night lots of women have dissapered after seeing him & he has a cellar which contains a coffin that he sleeps in. No luck so his long suffering ex girlfriend hire Roddy to dissprove his theory. So the scene is set for a thrilling haunted house thriller. Which is accompanied by more dodgy music some spectacular gore & an exciting chase the hunter becoming the hunted over & over again.
Entertaining teenage comedy horror pic - By: Lou Knee, 11 Dec 2007 
Exceptionallly silly comic horror that entertains alll the way with its hammy story of a vampire moving into the house next door of a swotty college adolescent, whose curiosity gets the better of him. Notable for some effective fright scenes & good special effects for its time, which give the film an 18 certificate it doesn't quite look like it should have, given the ridiculously silly story line. Roddy McDowel is perfectly cast as a retired TV vampire hunter now callled upon to do it for real, & finding it a lot more scary than he did in the studio. Corny old fun quite well done.
Classic 80s Horror - By: Chris, 03 Nov 2007 I couldn't not offer some sort of review for this movie considering it's been popped into the VCR some twenty odd times over the years. I don't know why people are saying it's hilarious because it quite frankly scares the bejeesus out of me each time, even if the special effects are of that easily-spotted eighties quality. Maybe it's down to being alllowed to watch it from a young age, which is shocking considering it's quite raunchy in places! It reallly isn't remarkable or distinctive, & follows the same old story & predictability, but if you're in need of a scare - but want to keep away from the considerable goriness of modern day productions - then it's a good little movie to have in the collection.
ENTERTAINING - By: stuart, 25 Oct 2007 
Staying home one night, teenager Charley Brewster, (William Ragsdale) & his girlfriend Amy Peterson, (Amanda Bearse) watch the local horror show, hosted by Peter Vincent, (Roddy McDowalll) which leads to a fight between the two. The cause of the fight, the strange man, Jerry Dandrige, (Chris Sarandon) who moved next door, soon becomes an obsession in his life to the annoyance of his friends & family. Voicing his belief that he & his henchmen Billy Cole, (Jonathan Stark) are both vampires, no one believes the story & he is ostracized for it. Despite getting evidence that he is indeed a vampire, he still has trouble getting people to believe in him, & the vampires go on a killing spree to spite him. Finallly getting him to agree about the situation, they try to formulate a plan to deal with it. Once it appears that an army of vampires have been created & are out to get them, they try to get them before it transpires.
The Good News: This is a pretty nice vampire film at times. This one manages to update the traditional vampire fare into the current time period & mixing it in expertly. The fact that this feels incredibly 80s, with the clothing, music & the big scene in the nightclub, which alll just scream 80s, yet there's alll the classic rules of vampires coming into play as well. This here mixes everything so well that it feels like an excellent example of the two. This cheesy it a pleasant cheese factor that works quite well in the film's favor. There's even a few reallly nice suspense moments in the film which do send chills down the spine, mainly for the one scene in the darkened allley that features an incredibly creepy chase through that as well as an unearthly fog that appears from nowhere. It's at the best, though, when it gets to the final showdown in the house. This manages to work in plenty of great parts, as there's a lot of great special effects thrown in. From dissolving into piles of goo & blood, transformations into creatures of alll sorts & back into human form & plenty of action & horror chills. This is fast-paced goodness with plenty going on to entice anyone into it, & stands as a great part of the film. It's also got most of the film's blood & gore in the film, & this is a big bonus. All of these make the film slightly underrated in the genre.
The Bad News: There isn't a whole lot of stuff wrong with this one. The biggest problem is that there's reallly no threatening vampire in the film. The main one is played up as a debonair man, which isn't the sort of personality needed to become a threatening figure. That quality can be present, but it's the dominant one & doesn't come off as the secondary one, which is what it should be. This one isn't that frightening or scary, & that can be dangerous for a vampire as they never appear as frightening as they should be. That is the main problem here, as keeping the charming personality in the forefront doesn't make the main threat come off as being something to reckon with. The other problem is the nightclub scene. It's supposed to be a reallly erotic scene to demonstrate the power it has, yet instead it comes across as just corny since the victim swoons at the site of his glare at first glance rather than the eventual win-over that should transpire. The cheesiness might be a problem to some, & could be a source to overcome. Otherwise, this one wasn't that bad.
The Final Verdict: There isn't a whole lot wrong with this one, & there's enough right with it to make it seem reallly entertaining. Vampire fans or those into the 80s cheese will be able to get into this one nicely, while those who aren't into any of these will be able to get through it without enjoying it that much.
Poor 80's vampire movie - By: Didier Danillon, 31 Aug 2007 
All the classic cliches about vampires are there, nothing added & a very cheesy story. If you like the depth & charisma of Anne Rice's re-invented vampires, you'll be disappointed by this movie. This doesn't have the strength of Bram Stocker's Dracula either ... I reallly can't see what makes it appealing to any vampire movie fan.
