Fright Night (1985) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100000586/fright-night; WARNING: uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox might not work for that tubi link
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ns3g4
- archive: https://archive.org/details/fright.-night.-1985.1080p.-blu-ray.x-264-yts.-ag
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm126519
The film follows teenager Charley Brewster (played by William Ragsdale), who discovers that his next-door neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry’s killing spree.
The film was released on August 2, 1985, and grossed $24.9 million at the box office. Since its release, it has received positive reviews from critics and become a cult classic, and spawned the media franchise of the same name.
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Fright Night garnered critical acclaim, holding a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the average rating is 7.2/10 based on 38 reviews. The site’s consensus reads: “Fright Night deftly combines thrills and humor in this ghostly tale about a man living next to a vampire.”[32]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote, “Fright Night is not a distinguished movie, but it has a lot of fun being undistinguished”.[33] Variety praised Sarandon’s performance, writing that he “is terrific as the vampire, quite affable and debonair until his fingernails start to grow and his eyes get that glow”.[34] Colin Greenland gave a negative review for White Dwarf #75, stating “We may be justified in suspecting that a film which has such contempt for its characters has contempt for its audience, too.”[35]
This is one of my favorite movies! I watch it every October
Same, it scared the absolute shit out of me when I first watched it as a kid. The walk home in the dark from my friend’s place afterwards was harrowing.
