Fright Night
Year: 1985
Director: Tom Holland
Written by: Tom Holland
Threat: Vampire
Weapon of Choice: Stake
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Fright NightYear: 1985 Director: Tom Holland Written by: Tom Holland Threat: Vampire Weapon of Choice: Stake IMDb page: |
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Fright Night Part II
The tyranist's thoughts
I saw this once a long time ago and I have nothing but fond memories so when I decided that it would make a good Halloween
flick, I had a lot of high hopes. Fortunately it mostly stands up to my original memory of it. This movie is one of the funnest
vampire movies ever made. I might say that Lost Boys has an edge on it, but not by much. Here they've taken
everything we love about vampire movies and distilled it down into a troubled teen's nightmare. They pay homage to the
classic Dracula legend as well as the many movies that have featured vampires since then. I say relax and let the movie
work its magic. You will have fun and there are a lot of vampire movies that I can't say that about.
Total Skulls: 17
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup |  |
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| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | |
The Premature Burial |
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | |
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| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | |
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| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | |
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| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | |
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| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| What the hell? | |
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| x years ago . . . | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | |
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| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | |
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| Blood hits camera | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | |
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| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | |