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"Oh, you're so cool, Brewster!"
Evil Ed
Fright Night
Credits
Title: Fright Night
Genres: Horror
Directed by: Tom Holland
Written by: Tom Holland
Produced by: Herb Jaffe
Music by: Brad Fiedel
Cinematography: Jan Kiesser
Edited by: Kent Beyda
Production
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Released: August 2nd, 1985
Rating: R
Running time: 106 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Budget: $9,000,000
Gross: $24,922,237
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Fright Night is an American feature film of the horror genre withe an emphasis on vampire fiction. It was written and directed by Tom Holland and produced by Columbia Pictures. It premiered theatrically in the United States on August 2nd, 1985. The movie spawned a sequel called Fright Night Part II in 1989, and was remade twice, first in 2011 as just Fright Night, and again in 2013 under the misleading title Fright Night 2: New Blood. The movie also spawned a Fright Night ongoing comic book series published by NOW Comics.

Fright Night stars William Ragsdale as suburban teenager Charley Brewster, who has the misfortune of discovering that his charming new next door neighbor, Jerry Dandridge, played by Chris Sarandon, is actually a vampire! While trying to balance a tenuous relationship with girlfriend Amy Peterson, Charley must now confide in his weirdo classmate "Evil" Ed Thompson over what to do about his vampire problem. Salvation comes in a most unlikely form as Roddy McDowall enters the story as Peter Vincent - a washed up movie actor-turned late night horror host.

Co-stars in the movie include Amanda Bearse as Amy Peterson, Stephen Geoffreys as Evil Ed, Dorothy Fielding as Judy Brewster, and Jonathan Stark as Billy Cole.

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Actor Role
Chris Sarandon Jerry Dandrige
William Ragsdale Charley Brewster
Amanda Bearse Amy Peterson
Roddy McDowall Peter Vincent
Stephen Geoffreys Evil Ed
Jonathan Stark Billy Cole
Dorothy Fielding Judy Brewster
Art J. Evans Detective Lennox
Stewart Stern Cook
Nick Savage Bouncer #1
Ernie Holmes Bouncer #2
Heidi Sorenson Hooker
Irina Irvine Teenage girl
Robert Corff Jonathan
Pamela Brown Miss Nina
Chris Hendrie Newscaster
Prince A. Hughes Bouncer #3
Joy Michelle Moore High school student

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1980s | Coffin | Crucifix | Female topless nudity | High school | Impalement | Mild profanity | Stabbing | Student | Vampires | Wolves

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