When newcomers first move into the empty home next door to the Brewsters in ”Fright Night,” Mrs. Brewster, too long a single mother, worries that the das...

Charting meta-horror terrain nine years before Scream would make it ubiquitous, Fright Night celebrates genre clichés even as it exposes them as such. In an...

Horror-film star helps teenager probe vampirish neighbor. Bright idea, but it fizzles out.

The best line in "Fright Night" belongs to Roddy McDowall, who plays a broken-down old hambone actor who used to star in vampire movies. "The kids today," he

Tom Holland's Fright Night is one of the best studio horror flicks of the 1980's. The film is frightening, clever, and uses comedy in an interesting way with...

Director Tom Holland keeps the picture wonderfully simple and entirely believable (once the existence of vampires is accepted, of course). In a quick 105 min...