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Fright Night

Directed by Tom Holland

United States • 1985 • 106 mins. • In English

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When teenaged horror film obsessive Charley (William Ragsdale) comes to believe that a suave vampire (Chris Sarandon) has moved next door, what can he do but turn to his favorite late-night horror show host, the TV vampire hunter Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) for help? “Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished.”—Roger Ebert

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Appears in: 2018 on Celluloid, Genrified! Cult & Other Curiosities

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