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It’s a tall order to ask that a film that speaks to horror fans at an intelligent level also embraces its nostalgia factor and manages some genuinely creepy moments. Many try to do it but few succeed like Tom Holland’s Fright Night does. Released in the mid-80s when franchises were being developed out of horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, Fright Night bridged the gap between classic and contemporary horror marrying tropes of gothic romance with cynical consumerism and iconic practical effects to create a genre classic widely regarded as one of the best horror films of the 1980s.
The latest episode of Deconstructing... digs into Tom Holland's Fright Night, starring William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Chris Sarandon, and Amanda Bearse
Dr Chris takes a look at the Fright Night movie series as a whole in this extended review. From the 1985 original movie and its 1989 sequel to the remake in 2011 starring Colin Farrell.
LRA writes: Welcome to our very first Rewind episode! On occasion we here at The LRA Show like to take a break (I know, how dare we right?) and in place of our normal episode we have put together a compilation of sorts with clips taken from some of our older episodes from either The LRA Show or the now inactive Home and Theater podcast and splice them together. In order to keep this semi-relevant and worth your while we have chosen a handful of segments dealing with films that have some sort of bearing at this time. The films we have for you for this episode include the 1980's horror/comedy Fright Night, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and the 2010 remake True Grit. Music featured is "Back in Time" by Huey Lewis & The News and "Cheer Down" by George Harrison.
