We mentioned its financial earnings earlier, and should add it was the most successful horror film released that summer. The remake, despite a strong performance from Colin Farrell as Jerry — and perhaps due to a wretched one by David Tennant as a reimagined Peter Vincent — lost a lot of the warmth and chemistry of the original and failed to leave an impression. And yet 30 years later, the original Fright Night is still loved and acclaimed.
Coming along at a time when horror movies were just starting to become cynical exercises in body counts, Fright Night is a loving tribute to the genre as well as a skillfully crafted and character-driven narrative. Don Kaye donkaye. Don Kaye is an entertainment journalist by trade and geek by natural design.
Skip to main content area. Photo: Columbia Pictures. Watch Fright Night on Amazon So here came this film that not only was about a vampire, but a traditional, very Dracula -like vampire making his way in the modern world. For the transformation sequences, it took up to 8 hours to prepare Sarandon's makeup.
Sarandon was uncomfortable spending that long sitting in a chair doing nothing, and since he'd had experience doing his own makeup for his work on the stage, he volunteered to help. He did some of the stippling and, while the makeup men were applying prosthetics to his face and head, he worked on the finger extensions. Sarandon has often joked that the rubber fingers caused difficulties whenever he had to urinate, so gay costume supervisor Mort Schwartz constantly offered to help him.
His will had been broken by that point! The makeup for Evil Ed's wolf transformation took 18 hours. While he had the wolf head on, the crew began pouring what they thought was Methylcellulose into his mouth to create the illusion of saliva, but when Geoffreys began to complain about the taste, Mark Bryan Wilson realized they'd been using prosthetic adhesive, which was gluing his mouth shut.
On Christmas Eve, during the shooting of a scene where he's running down a staircase, Ragsdale accidentally tripped and broke his ankle, resulting in the film being temporarily put on a hold until he could recover from his injury.
Many scenes were shot with his foot in a cast. For the scene in which Jerry is carrying Charley by the throat with one hand, Sarandon was simultaneously pulling Ragsdale on a furniture dolly. The shot of Jerry pulling the pencil out of his hand was achieved by having a spring-loaded collapsible pencil glued to his palm and an eraser-tip loosely attached to the back of his hand.
When he turns his hand and pulls the spring-loaded piece from his palm, out of shot a monofilament wire jerked away the tip, so when he turns it back it appears as though he's pulled it straight through his hand.
The crew attempted to achieve the illusion of the cross-scar vanishing from Evil Ed's forehead live on-set, but effect was a resounding failure.
In that pre-digital age, Edlund's crew was able to alter the film utilizing optical photography to achieve the effect. Filming of the sequence with the Jerry Dandrige Bat was difficult for the crew, who kept winding up on film while puppeteering the creature. Further complications ensued when the bat tries to bite Roddy McDowall's character and he forces a bone into its mouth; there was difficulty getting the puppet to bite, and then McDowall jerked the bone to hard and broke the bat's skull.
The bat was quickly patched, but required repairs forced them to wait two days to shoot more close-ups. Fright Night' s widest release was 1, theaters.
It performed the best of any horror film released during the summer of It was also the second highest-grossing horror film of , bested only by A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.
Chris Sarandon was praised for his multifaceted performance. The sequel was not as well received as the original. With the immediate success of the first film, producer Herb Jaffe pushed to make a sequel, but Tom Holland was busy with another project and Jaffe was unwilling to pay star salary for Chris Sarandon , so production soldiered on without them.
Fright Night Part 2 opens with Charley Brewster in therapy, convinced that his encounter with "serial killer" Jerry Dandrige was primarily delusion. However, when Jerry's sister Regine arrives in town seeking revenge, Charley and Peter Vincent find themselves in a role reversal.
The film was first screened in Europe in ; the following year it attained a limited theatrical release in the USA and then was dumped on VHS and laserdisc. Despite its status as a financial flop, the film has developed a cult following of its own. Unfortunately, before the meeting could occur, Menendez was infamously murdered by his sons, Lyle and Erik.
His proposed plot was that single-father Charley Brewster inherits his mother's home and soon his two teenage children become convinced that there's something evil in the house next door - namely Evil Ed , whom Charley discovers survived and is attempting to resurrect Jerry Dandrige.
The first remake was Amavasai Iravil "Moonless Night" , a blatant clone made for the Tamil film industry in India in It follows the plot of the original almost scene-for-scene, but various changes were made Peter Vincent is a priest, the vampire gets stabbed with a paintbrush instead of a pencil, etc. The film was never officially issued outside of India, but it can be easily found online.
In , the film was offically remade by DreamWorks. This incarnation is set in Las Vegas, Peter Vincent has been changed to a magician, and Jerry Dandrige is no longer a sensuous vampire but a blood-thirsty monster.
Completely ignoring the events of the film, this one centers on Charley, Amy, and Evil Ed, who have traveled to Romania for schooling and soon discover that their sexy new teacher is an ancient vampire.
Peter Vincent's occupation has been changed once again to a reality-TV show host. Although no credit was given, this remake with its female villain owes just as much to the original sequel as the first film. A variety of merchandise has been produced to tie in with the movie, including video games, home video releases, soundtrack albums, comic books, trading cards and T-shirts.
To date, no action figures have been produced. Fright Night Wiki Explore. Fright Night. The Story of Fright Night. Evans Irina Irvine. ItsFright Night, a horrific howl starring Chris Sarandon as the seductive vampire and William Ragsdale as the frantic teenager struggling to keep Jerrys deadly fangs out of his neck. Can these mortals save Charley and his sweetheart Amy Amanda Bearse from the wrathful bloodsuckers toothy embrace? If you love being scared,Fright Nightwill give you the nightmare of your life!
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