ugh, they gonna bone with Peter on TV aren't they 🥴
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and back to where we started

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Demonic Dandrige is set aflame by the purifying rays of daybreak! Amy's hair returns to normal! Peter Vincent discovers that a lifetime of portraying heroism did nothing to prepare him for the real thing, but he found it within himself and in his unlikely partnership with Charley!

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"Amy! Your hair's back!"

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the dramatic irony in the climactic scene is that the vampire was defeated by Charlie, who sucks

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@ManWithPez

Indubitably!

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He had a terrible sunlight accident!

Wow. Not even a bear-zooka, but what an explosion!

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Well she gets to keep the dress though

#WorthIt

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the movie's faithfulness to vampires having supernatural corrupting abilities is undercut for the sake of a happy ending reuniting the lovers we don't really care about much

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“Come on, Mr. Vincent! Get in here!”

#Monsterdon #Hugs

#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985 sevreal minutes after dawn but whatever

Oh no

Amy's old haircut came back

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He fucked off into a ball of flaming goo. Nice.

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Anyway they fight and they fight and they fight and the basement is full of furniture and junk everywhere. Eventually the human boys get smart and start breaking open windows so that there's sunlight everywhere. Which is a good idea.

Eventually the last window is revealed and Sweater Vampire decides his Death Move is to burst into green flames and also turn into a bat and then a skeleton bat.

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didn't realize Chris Sarandon contained the Arc of the Covenant.

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@diazona Mebbie he's Vulcan? #Monsterdon

*vwoop*

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Good vampire skeleton! With green fire! Oh we are filming ALL of the money! #Monsterdon

I had no idea vampires were so asplodey

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okay this is a pretty cool death scene holy crap
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BAT!

Bats come in there flavors: Tiny Screm, Fuzzyboi, and KILL IT WITH FIRE.

We all know what this one was, eh? lol

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My goodness sir, that is an awful lot of goo coming out of you
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#monsterdon Absolutely no melanin at all. I understand how that feels as a very white person. ;)

one last stunt and visual effect to send us off, hell yea

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and this is why you don't listen to amy grant, kids

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I didn't think getting turned would give you better hair, but here'm we are. #monsterdon

The Head Vampire always gets the Dawn death

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that's right

ARE YOU MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SUN?!

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@wohali I chair-ish this movie? #Monsterdon

curse this anomalously well-lit basement!

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MY WINDOWS

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PERIOD CORRECT REPLACEMENT GLASS COSTS?

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Chekovs black painted glass

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@funkula yeah, I mean the stakes are just too high! --dad #Monsterdon

The moral of this movie is actually: If you're a vampire don't move to the suburbs and don't eat the neighbors, and for the love of god not high school kids. #monsterdon

@Configures @Newpa_Hasai @allanb apparently dracula doesn't count as a vampire to some people 🤷 #monsterdon

IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN THE FRAME IT DOESN'T EXIST

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AGAIN...THAT IS HIS SHOULDER #Monsterdon

nice callback with the straight stand-up out of the coffin there.

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"You pushed Amy around once too often, now you get ANGRY AMY"

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Pretty sure that's not where the heart is

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They only had one window to break, so of course you have to see it happen three times!

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@Lazarou It is though sexy vampire Willow was a lot sexier.
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eyyyy there's the chocolate coffin #monsterdon

“And that, Charlie, is for how sucky a boyfriend you were for the TWELVE MONTHS we were together!!”

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Hurry, Peter! I'm...so...horny!!! #Monsterdon

dang that MOUTH

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"Hurry Peter, her nips are pointing at me...."

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poor lady has action nipple and i want to give her a cardigan
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#monsterdon That entire basement is full of potential wooden stakes…

Did the sun just made the ghostbusters proton pack charging sound? #Monsterdon

@allanb i know. please stop being condescending #monsterdon

Charlie...Charlie bit my finger! #monsterdon #frightnight1985

This is like 'Sexy Vampire Willow" isn't it?

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"Don't be frightened, Charlie."

They're falsies. #Monsterdon

How did Amy grow 14 inches of hair overnight?

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@bunnyhero @allanb @Newpa_Hasai "No true Scotsvampire"

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hey, how come Evil didn't get like 10x hotter when he got vamped?
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"Who are you, and how do you know what time it is?"

"I'm a clocksmith, and I'm a clocksmith."

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MONSTER CHOMP

Charley gets gnawed right on the forearm by a writhing, slimy, squealing bat-Dandrige! Who then flies off to fight crime and avenge his parents or something

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wut

Okay so the cross starts hurting Sweater Vampire as the sun rises, then all the clocks go off. Then the sun blasts sweater vampire with a laser, motivating him to turn into a bat that lunges after Peter Vincent and tries to bite him. Charlie distracts him and instead gets bitten in the arm, then the sun starts burning the bat who flies away. They chase him to the basement.

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Now that was the first half of a death scene befitting a master vampire

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I thought you had to kill him BEFORE sunrise to save Amy?

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@allanb @Newpa_Hasai "actual" lol let's not get into vampire purity tests now #monsterdon

While fending off Jerry in his bat form with a bone for the climax of the film, Roddy McDowall accidentally cracked the puppet's skull. The crew scrambled to fix the bat so they could continue shooting, but such extensive damage occurred that it took two days to properly reassemble, so they had to temporarily delay filming further close-ups of the creature.

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Aww widdy baby bat monster.
Does the bat... ?
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maybe should have spent a little more time coming up with creature SFX for the bat-form that aren't just a 2-sec loop, though

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This is not the cute bat that I was promised. :(

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now playin fetch with the sky puppy
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LASER SUN! GO!

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Marty! are those my clocks? #monsterdon

OK this #Monsterdon gets the Best Bat Award of all time

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#monsterdon is this thing quoting scarface?

So yeah Pete's basically the main character for the last half hour of the film, huh. #Monsterdon

BAT! #monsterdon

"You've got to have faith for that to work!" ... And that's how Peter Vincent got religion. #Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

You're OUTATIME!

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Sweater Vampire ambushes them as they visit Amy, then crawls off the roof, where he commands Amy to kill them, which she obeys because she is vampirizing now. But Peter Vincent repels her with a cross because he has faith now.

Charlie and Peter run around the house until Sweater Vampire leaps through a window to challenge Peter Vincent to a duel so he can start giggling. But he doesn't have enough faith to repel the big vampire. Oh wait nevermind he does now.

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Chekov's cuckoo clocks! HAH!
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Because the sun rises at exatly 6:00:05 this morning.

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Ask not for whom the bird goes toot toot

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checkov's clocks

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#monsterdon He's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

@Newpa_Hasai @allanb i'm pretty sure he takes the form of a wolf in the novel? #monsterdon

Goo and sand at the same time? #monsterdon It's like they couldn't decide.

WINDOW, WHAT DID I TELL YOU

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Sure, the vampire may triumph but he's ruined all the charm of his house #Monsterdon

Grats to whoever called the stained glass window not making it.

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Cindy, the henchman is leaking. #monsterdon

A scene so nice they showed it thrice!

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Sooooooooooooooooooo!

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That’s the movie poster! #Monsterdon

How much she loves you? I don't really think you've had time to develop a substantive relationship but okay sweater man

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The problem of sounding menacing with fake teeth in your mouth...

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"Show me how much you love me. Kill them!"

Is it just me, or is Jerry a bit toxic?

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@Violinknitter I mean Amy clearly sucks less as a vampire so there's a chance

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Me: "Wait, when did Amy become a redhead?"

Katie: "Maybe that's what he meant when he said 'she's worse'?"

BRUTAL

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Maybe his gun had a coolant leak. #monsterdon