Where to Watch Fright Night
- Ecto-1ANovember 21, 2025🧛🏼♂️ When Zillow doesn’t mention the vampire next door… and it knows your name 😬 I’m not usually one drawn to vampire movies, but Fright Night is a rare exception. It’s sharply written, confidently directed, well-acted, perfectly paced and impressively produced. The remake doesn’t come close to capturing what made the original such a gem. Even with a few dated effects, as you’d expect from a film of its era, it still holds up remarkably well. The mix of horror, humor, suspense and old-school charm gives it a personality the remake never quite manages to recreate.
- stuhannafordOctober 29, 2025Dated, as you can imagine, but good fun and with a whole coffin load of 80's SFX that are still a good watch. Difficult to call it a horror, even at the time, with lots of goofy lines, goofier characters and a humorous and playful look at classic horror movie tropes rather than gore galore. Not so many Fright's, but will offer a good, old fashioned movie Night in.
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Fright Night was released on August 2, 1985.
Fright Night was directed by Tom Holland.
Fright Night has a runtime of 1h 47m.
Fright Night was produced by Herb Jaffe.
For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that they are a vampire and his day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. But Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist.
The key characters in Fright Night are Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale), Amy Peterson (Amanda Bearse).
Fright Night is rated R.
Fright Night is a Horror, Comedy film.
Fright Night has an audience rating of 7.7 out of 10.
Fright Night had a budget of $9M.
Fright Night has made $24.9M at the box office.