Was that Octaman? #Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

THE CREDITS SONG OMG #monsterdon

so charlie basically has to spend the rest of his life converting people to christianity so they are able to defend themselves against vampires #monsterdon

I love a zero chemistry ending

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HOLY SHIT IT'S OCTAMAN ON THE TV

WHEN #Monsterdon NEEDED HIM MOST, OUR HERO RETURNED

That sounded like...The Boys!

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epic head vampire death, we had it all!

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I took the liberty of putting you in a diaphanous gown, I hope you don't mind

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"OH NO, MY ARMPIT!"

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@bunnyhero @Newpa_Hasai Well, I mean pop culture vamps are more liberally-defined, I just think werewolves are separate, and they're mixing their monsters up into a kind of ... mash?

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RIGHT in the SHOULDER what the FUCK dude

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How Vincent got his Faith Back
was the alternate title. #monsterdon

BAT

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Will he explode or melt?

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"You gotta Faith...."

We miss you George

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even if he survives this night, he did alert the whole town to him being a vampire, so he'll just get finished off when some guys go to the big 5 and get a crossbow tomorrow #monsterdon

TIL every vampire dies in a different, gooey practical effect. This one has decided to melt into green goo, then turn into a creepy skeleton and shatter.

10/10, no notes.

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yeah i pretty much mostly remember the scenes on the stairs haha

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@moira

If this is it, please let me go

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It's not just like the movies because you're getting steady work here, Roddy

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@Lazarou Oh yeah, they absolutely shot the money with the werewolf goo. #Monsterdon

Hand of glory?

#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

That scream is the same scream that man this week will make when he finds out Tilly Norwood is not a virgin

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@bunnyhero @allanb @Victorsigmoid Yabbut di they try fire tho? #HiBunny! #Monsterdon

really working the smoke machines here

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holy fuck so this is where the good parts of the movie have been hiding, huh

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dogs can be vampires? why wouldn't you go down to the pound and recruit like 100 dog servants immediately #monsterdon

@blue @JoeWynne If you do it right you use pre-wrap first (sports wrap that isn't sticky that goes under tape). Harder to do if the tape isn't going all the way around though I guess?

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Evil is having fun

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@diazona @floatybirb #Monsterdon There was a GREAT novelization of this movie, and then Tom Holland retold this story as Fright Night Origins with some fleshed out details because he wants to continue this series that way.

I am Peter Vincent
The Great Vampire .... killer

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Did he bite her neck or an apple? I wasn't looking at the screen, it sounded like an apple. #monsterdon

This is going to be one of those "kill the head vampire and vamp friends get turned back" deals, isn't it?

We know the rules

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Charlie tried to recruit Peter Vincent to help fight the vampire, but he won't go because he's scared and also not a real vampire hunter.

Meanwhile, Sweater Vampire has dressed Amy in a sexy not-quite-toga-dress and explains that she looks like someone he used to know, whose portrait is on the wall.

He takes off his short and makes out with her, which she decides to go along with; eventually he bites her and starts drinking her blood.

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Amy, get some standards gurl

Don't just give it up for any Tom, Dick, or Dracula in town

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Ok, right now I’m headcannoning that Amy is 27

Because jeezopete

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ETA: dear lordt, autocorrect, you are not helping

Ah the old "Vampire thinks you look like his old flame" routine...

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The creepiest thing about Amy waking up like that is she did not dress herself

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what if it was punky brewster in this instead of charley brewster

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High schools kids are allowed in this night club?

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DANDRIGE QUIT CREEPING ON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

nope nope nope nope nope

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#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985 vampires will definitely steal your girlfriend

tempting Amy with his sexiest dancing sweatshirt

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Duran-duranpire

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here he comes to suck his way across town

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Who designed this neighbourhood?!

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yea this is close enough that I think it's THEY LIVE, especially with the alley shots

amusingly, this movie is 3 years earlier, though. so I guess if there were any link, it would be that THEY LIVE (1988) sounds like FRIGHT NIGHT (1985)

the electric guitar kinda spoils it but the rest is the same vibe

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Wow, the feed is really divided. Poll time!

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Oop there's our first of two "fuck" utterances for this film to keep to its rating

That "fruitcake" epithet from Ed is getting real old, they can cut that out anytime.

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@JoeWynne Beautiful. This is officially my favorite aspect of the movie. #Monsterdon

(I was trying to turn off the slightly over-large subtitles on this disc and had to cycle through _twenty-five other languages_ after English to get to OFF. Annoying, but excellent localization work!)

Meanwhile Dandrige visibly failed to appear in Vincent's prop mirror! EGADS he is a real vampire after all

And he just spotted the shard of mirror that popped out of Vincent's prop case when Vincent dropped it in shock! The kids are rumbled!

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It would be funny if Vincent just left the movie and is last seen flying across the country.

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hello police? I met this guy named Jer and he didn't cast a reflection in my compact mirror so... hello? hello?

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The vampire guy comes down to greet them and leer at the metalhead nerd and the girlfriend, then charms the girl, proving again that he is an Evil Bisexual (TM).

Charlie then awkwardly bullies him into drinking the holy water, which he does without harm. The actor tries to convince him that was a valid test, but Charlie is not convinced.

The vampire guy vaguely threatens Charlie's friends so he backs off and pretends to be convinced that the vampire guy is not a vampire.

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Unfortunately they didn’t cast Billy Zane as the vampire

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Wait, the cross didn't work last time, why does he care?

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if he's not a vampire have him touch THIS [pixelated]

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AMY!!!

GET

OUT

OF

THIS

MOVIE!!!!!!

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Nowadays this vampire certification process would be done over Zoom

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@JoeWynne Speaking of Cassandra Peterson, I met her at #DragonCon many years ago (probably circa 2008). She was seated at a table in the vendor hall, signing autographs. I didn't get her autograph, but no one was there, so we talked for a bit. In retrospect, I should have paid for her autograph because I was just a dick by talking to her and not getting an autograph.

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Naturally, the actor decides that we should do a phone interview to prove if the vampire neighbor is a vampire or not.

After refuses crosses and holy water, which I would probably refuse anyway, but eventually gets him to agree an investigation where he drinks the holy water.

The arrive at night and Charlie is mad that the actor is not bringing his bag of stakes. Anyway, they get let into the house that is full of clocks and art and stuff.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ManWithPez/115324681080749103

I was 10, by the way.

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And at the time, VERY 10. Just an annoying little shitbird. #Monsterdon

That's "born again" christian. A "reborn" christian would maybe be more like a vampire or zombie.

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"Yes. This is Jerry Dandridge. How did you get this number. I JUST moved in."

"Ma Bell don't fuck around, Mr. Dandridge."

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"these teenagers gave me $500 to break in a vampires house" sounds very Florida Man

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Amy asks if Charlie recruited the vampire actor, he says that he tried to but he wasn't interested. So they decide to form a scooby do gang and go after the vampire.

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"Suck his way throughout the entire town!"

I've seen that movie ;)

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Dude, you just had a vampire throw you around the room, so now you’re filling the whole room with candles so the vampire can burn it down next time?

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"This is just like FRIGHT NIGHT"

:blobfoxfingerguns:

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#monsterdon I couldn't light that many candles without accidentally burning my house down.

Zero chance of survival.

#monsterdon Too much hair product, and all those candles, there's going to be Barbecue!

Was this pitched using "Rear Window"?

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#FrightNight

Did we watch that Dracula movie with Monsterdon?

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Fucking prank calling vampires.

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All this vampire violence wakes up the mom, who is alarmed that her door is nailed short. The vampire escapes. When the mom gets out, Charlie said that nothing happened and he just had a nightmare, so the mom offers him drugs (a valium), which he refuses, then tries to tell him about her nightmare where she was naked in a zoo or a hockey game or something. Then she goes to bed.

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I want a Valium, mom

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loving these 80s special effects, which work!

Ouch with that hand!

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@jsadow by jove you are right i am out of my element.

I think the guy is metalhead nerd. I also think this is the small town subculture effect where all the alternative people and the nerds merge together into a single clique.

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The boy dutifully nails his window shut, only to find that his mom has already invited the next door neighbor in, because she's a milf and he's a hot vampire. He says he might come back later whenever he feels like, and his mom accepts. This alarms the main character.

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8 bucks is $200,000 in today's money.

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Anyway, the boy goes to warn his mom about the vampire neighbor, but she doesn't believe him. He sees the vampire guy trading some shiny package with a guy in the jeep.

The mom thinks he had a bad dream and gives him hot cocoa, which he refuses, out of Foolish Pride. He tells his girlfriend this the next day, and she also think he's being a little bit crazy. He says that he'll go to the police.

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"I don't need a warrant, I have a White Boy instead"

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you blew it, Charley

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@LuluHelle it's an 80s horror movie thing

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Charlie's pompadour grows with his confidence

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Homicide detectives ALWAYS bring the complaining witness with them.... #monsterdon

Did he just eat the apple core? Clearly he’s not human.

#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

Reposting my general theory for movies that if they show us girl nipples in the first 20 minutes, they're likely to be bad, as if the movie turns out to be bad, the audience might be tempted to keep watching anyway in hopes that there are more nipples.

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Bahahahaha, the lapels on that coat! Wingspan enough for hang-gliding.

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@jonny Your fingers being an extra knuckle longer isn't either, but It's gonna get a second look if you flash them as a warning sign. #Monsterdon It took me FOREVER to figure out what was supposed to be scary about that scene. I finally caught it, because it's not the last time he'll do it.

nice vampire POV cam

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This kid really doesn't know boundaries...

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Explain to your ma what you were doing....

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so she apologized for having boundaries is what just happened. cool

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The TV keeps playing while they're kissing and the TV announcer says that this is "Fright Night", dropping the title of this #monsterdon

Then the girl wants to stop making out, but the boy wants to make out more, and the boy complains that he's not getting any sex, so the girl gives in and relocates to the bed then asks him for sexing.

But then the boy is distracted by random guys outside carrying a coffin and gets out his peeping binoculars. The girl is then mad because she is ignored.

This movie starts with a moon and a wolf howl, and then zooms to a house where someone is, ironically, watching an old vampire #monsterdon, but this is the 80s so its on the TV. Somewhere where a vampire lady is trying to bite/seduce a vampire hunter.

Anyway, then the camera pans out to a pillow nest by the floor of a bed where two people, probably teenagers, are making out. Damn Gen Xers and their pillow nest makeout sessions.

Nothing is more TERRIFYING than a prudish girl in an 80s teen movie

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Charlie, shut the fuck up. #Monsterdon

ROWDY RODDY MCDOWALL

...wait, that's not right

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So. There's a moon. That's good.

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