Fright Night 📺

Happy Monday! I have a question for you: Do you remember the 21st night of September?

Today’s movie is the 1985 vampire horror-comedy Fright Night—streaming on Prime Video. Like last week, I’m including a full review with an added “10-second cut” section for those of you that like shorter reviews. Here’s the trailer.

⏱ 10-second cut: Fright Night is just about as eighties as a horror movie could be, complete with a vampire disco hypnosis scene and macabre late-night creature feature host. However, in embracing the inherent cheese and the genre tropes that we’re familiar with, director Tom Holland makes a creature feature that has both fangs sunk deep into both golden ages of horror—the 30s/40s and the 70s/80s.

📺 Stream on Prime Video. Buy or rent on Apple TV, YouTube, or Prime Video.

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