Post by Morgan Taylor / Saren on Dec 8, 2006 11:56:02 GMT -5
I was thinking the other day about some of the past vampire/werewolf related movies I'd seen in the past. Most were kinda corny...but I thought some of us could discuss some of our favorite (or least favorite) supernatural types of movies.
I guess one of my favorites is a 1985 movie called "Fright Night." The movie starred Roddy McDowell and Chris Sarandon. I first saw this movie when I was in junier high (8th grade I think) and it's stayed with me ever since.
The movie follows a high schooler named Charlie Brewster. When a new resident moves in to the house next door, Charlie begins to suspect that this new fairly good looking and mysterious neighbor (played by Sarandon) is in fact, a vampire. He trys to tell his friends about his suspicions Jerry Dandrige, the new neighbor, but they don't believe him. With his friends feeling sorry for him, they arrange for a famous TV show host that goes by the name Peter Vincent (played by McDowell) to meet with Dandridge and determine if he is infact a vampire.
When Peter Vincent "The Great Vampire Killer", Charlie and his friends go meet with Dandridge, Jerry falls for Charlie's girlfriend Amy. Amy looks strikingly similar to a former lover of Jerry's, and so he believes that she was reincarnated to be with him. And so the stage is set...Jerry wants to turn Amy into a vampire and Charlie along with Peter Vincent must stop Dandridge before Amy is lost forever.
This movie is an 80s movie to the core. The score is dripping with electric guitar strings and the effects are less than amazing (but I'm sure was very good for the time) The movie is fairly hokey(sp) but is a good enough mid-80s vampire chapter.
I do have one complaint about it though. Fright Night is a very traditional vampire movie, with coffins in the daytime, silver and garlic, mirrors, the whole schabang. But....there is a scene where Jerry bites a character (I'm not going to tell you who, in case you want to see it) to turn them into a vampire. He bites this individual in the shoulder! The bite was pretty high up on the shoulder, but every time I saw that I was like, "There's a bone there you nit-wit!" In reality, Jerry would've broken his fangs off.
But anyway...hope more people talk about their favorite vampire/werewolf movies.
I guess one of my favorites is a 1985 movie called "Fright Night." The movie starred Roddy McDowell and Chris Sarandon. I first saw this movie when I was in junier high (8th grade I think) and it's stayed with me ever since.
The movie follows a high schooler named Charlie Brewster. When a new resident moves in to the house next door, Charlie begins to suspect that this new fairly good looking and mysterious neighbor (played by Sarandon) is in fact, a vampire. He trys to tell his friends about his suspicions Jerry Dandrige, the new neighbor, but they don't believe him. With his friends feeling sorry for him, they arrange for a famous TV show host that goes by the name Peter Vincent (played by McDowell) to meet with Dandridge and determine if he is infact a vampire.
When Peter Vincent "The Great Vampire Killer", Charlie and his friends go meet with Dandridge, Jerry falls for Charlie's girlfriend Amy. Amy looks strikingly similar to a former lover of Jerry's, and so he believes that she was reincarnated to be with him. And so the stage is set...Jerry wants to turn Amy into a vampire and Charlie along with Peter Vincent must stop Dandridge before Amy is lost forever.
This movie is an 80s movie to the core. The score is dripping with electric guitar strings and the effects are less than amazing (but I'm sure was very good for the time) The movie is fairly hokey(sp) but is a good enough mid-80s vampire chapter.
I do have one complaint about it though. Fright Night is a very traditional vampire movie, with coffins in the daytime, silver and garlic, mirrors, the whole schabang. But....there is a scene where Jerry bites a character (I'm not going to tell you who, in case you want to see it) to turn them into a vampire. He bites this individual in the shoulder! The bite was pretty high up on the shoulder, but every time I saw that I was like, "There's a bone there you nit-wit!" In reality, Jerry would've broken his fangs off.
But anyway...hope more people talk about their favorite vampire/werewolf movies.
I can't remember it too well cause I only saw it once. Our local Blockbuster doesn't have it...they only get the new, popular movies. 
and 
I'm embarassed to say that no, I've never seen The Lost Boys. Not entirely anyway. Wasn't Bill Paxton in that?...at a very young age obviously. 
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