01. Fright Night (1985)
Next to Better Off Dead, Fright Night is my favorite movie of all time. I saw it when I was a kid and fell in love with it and it has been my favorite ever since. A lot of vampire movies balance horror and humor but this one is the best. It took the vampire story and the horror very seriously but poked fun at B vampire movies the whole way through. The story is pretty straight forward, Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) is an average high school kid with girlfriend Amy (Married with Children’s Amanda Bearse) and best friend ‘Evil’ Ed (Stephen Geoffreys), Trigonometry pop quizzes, a workaholic mom and all of a sudden a vampire living next door. Charlie, up late watching a local horror show Fright Night hosted by B-movie actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowell) thinks he sees the new neighbors moving a coffin into the house and it starts him down a road of paranoia that has his friends thinking he is crazy. Of course, Charlie isn’t crazy and neighbor Jerry Dandrige( Chris Sarandon) is a vampire but no one will believe him, least of all Peter Vincent who is paid to perform a fake vampire test on Dandrige. That’s when things get real. Like Lost Boys, Fright Night straddles the line between parody and horror and director Tom Holland has a sure hand. The film spawned a sequel directed by Tommy Lee Wallace that is almost as good as the original and is set to be remade in 2011 with Anton Yelchin as Charlie, Colin Farrell as Dandrige and David Tennant as Vincent. I am cautiously optimistic about this one but even if it blows, the original rocks out.
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Okay, so I was almost to the bottom of the “vampire” list and I was like, “Where the hell is the Lost Boys.”
I almost had a stroke.
Best soundtrack, EVER.
God.
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3 fright night
2 interview
1 lost boys
also I was going to be furious about Silver Bullet not being higher until I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf. Good Call.
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You can also use midi controllers on certains phones, and you
can load your own sounds and samples in WAV or Soundfont format.
It’s all being done on a consumer and a grass-roots basis but I think some of the options that are available in
usable technologies can be brought here and the DVC30 was one of those.
Not all mp3 player decor will work with the next brand.
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Butch Patrick was reportedly cast out of over 500 boys in March 1964, and would appear in all episodes broadcast on CBS.