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jcgamer107 posted...

Fright Night was a refreshing & meta take on vampire movies when it first came out, and still holds up pretty well today. It's somewhat of a parody but is also pretty damn scary, which is rare. Evil Ed reverting back from a wolf freaked me out as a kid, and Chris Sarandon plays the right blend of charming and sinister. Meanwhile Roddy McDowall's reluctant hero character is one the best 'good guys' in 80s horror.

Christine is one of King's worst stories in my opinion, or at least worst concepts. I'm all for 'cursed object' horror, but an evil car always seemed silly to me.

I agree that the concept for Christine is very silly, and I'm really not much of a fan of King's writing tbh. But I think Carpenter knows that and it feels just as self aware to me as Fright Night, even more so really.

This was probably the 5th or 6th time I saw it and I've really grown to love it.

Love Fright Night as well though. And yeah, McDowell is great in it and I love that he gets his own little character arc in it too. His character is a great way to sort of bridge the gap between the geniune horror elements of the movie and the intentionally campy throwback aspects to like B horror cult schlock that the movie also seems to admire.

Great movies, and this ranking motivated me to finally get around to watching the blurays I had for Christine and Fright Night, though I had seen both movies before.