"I have just been fired because nobody wants to see vampire killers anymore, or vampires either. Apparently, all they want to see are demented madmen running around in ski masks, hacking up young virgins."
At the end of the eighties, I often went to visit my uncle. His son had a big poster for this movie on his bedroom wall. A poster that fascinated me and aroused my curiosity, and because of which I nothing would made me stay alone in that room. At that time, I didn't have a video recorder, and I don't think there were any video clubs, and even if there were, I doubt that my parents would have let me watch horror movies. Three and a half decades later, I finally watched it.
"Fright Night" is without any competition the film that has been sitting on my watch-list for the longest time, and probably decades of anticipation and childhood fascination raised my expectations unrealistically high, but I must say that I am quite disappointed. This movie is not bad, far from it, but it is even further from horror. To whom this is scary, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" would cause a stroke or a heart attack.
A typical representative of the light-horror films of the eighties, at a time when slashers were at their peak, "Fright Night" returns to the vampire mythos and combines it with teenage romance. Characteristic make-up and special effects of that era horrors, with a fair amount of humor and obligatory comic-relief characters (Peter Vincent - the vampire killer, a witty name that alludes to Peter Cushing and Vincent Price). The film is in all respects quite nicely done and entertaining for a relaxing afternoon, but also quite unimpressive and forgettable.
6,5/10.
At the end of the eighties, I often went to visit my uncle. His son had a big poster for this movie on his bedroom wall. A poster that fascinated me and aroused my curiosity, and because of which I nothing would made me stay alone in that room. At that time, I didn't have a video recorder, and I don't think there were any video clubs, and even if there were, I doubt that my parents would have let me watch horror movies. Three and a half decades later, I finally watched it.
"Fright Night" is without any competition the film that has been sitting on my watch-list for the longest time, and probably decades of anticipation and childhood fascination raised my expectations unrealistically high, but I must say that I am quite disappointed. This movie is not bad, far from it, but it is even further from horror. To whom this is scary, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" would cause a stroke or a heart attack.
A typical representative of the light-horror films of the eighties, at a time when slashers were at their peak, "Fright Night" returns to the vampire mythos and combines it with teenage romance. Characteristic make-up and special effects of that era horrors, with a fair amount of humor and obligatory comic-relief characters (Peter Vincent - the vampire killer, a witty name that alludes to Peter Cushing and Vincent Price). The film is in all respects quite nicely done and entertaining for a relaxing afternoon, but also quite unimpressive and forgettable.
6,5/10.