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    Fright Night (1985)

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    Nerdish small-town teenager Charlie (William Ragsdale) discovers that his new neighbour, Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire and responsible for several deaths in the area.

    Desperate because friends and family do not believe his tale, and in danger from the vampire who knows that his secret has been discovered, he turns to Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), the washed-up TV host of a horror show (called Fright Night) who claims to be a vampire killer.

    Chris Sarandon’s Jerry is a stylish vampire dressed in a full-length leather cape, who presents a convincing image of virility and potent menace, while the screenplay – in a possible nod to Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) – coyly hints that Jerry is involved in a bisexual relationship with his roommate (Jonathan Stark).

    Director/screenwriter Tom Holland – who previously penned Class of 1984 (1982) and Psycho II – respects the historical archetypes of the vampire genre (garlic, wooden stakes, coffins, aversion to daylight, non-reflection in mirrors etc) and mercifully steers clear of overt parody of the Love At First Bite (1979) variety.

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    Jerry Dandridge
    Chris Sarandon
    Charlie Brewster
    William Ragsdale
    Amy Peterson
    Amanda Bearse
    Peter Vincent
    Roddy McDowall
    Evil Ed
    Stephen Geoffreys
    Billy Cole
    Jonathan Stark
    Judy Brewster
    Dorothy Fielding
    Detective Lennox
    Art Evans
    Cook
    Steward Stern
    Jonathan
    Robert Corff
    Miss Nina
    Pamela Brown

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    Tom Holland

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