#film: fright night

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David Tennant as Peter Vincent in Fright Night

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Behind the scenes images of Stephen Geoffreys having prosthetics applied to him as his turn as the unlucky Evil Ed in Fright Night (1985)

Steve Johnson wished Evil Ed's transformation to be lumpy and 'asymmetrical' in contrast to the transformations in American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Geoffreys would spend 18 hours in the makeup chair as prosthetics were applied to his whole body. He had to take sleeping pills to pass out the time away!

For filming the transformation, Geoffreys would have to sit with his back against the set wall, which had a hole for a puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf arm, as well as holes in the set's floor for another puppeteer to operate the rod-puppet wolf legs. Geoffreys would wear a neck appliance with the wolf head as a 'hat'; he could see out from holes in the neck, and the head was fitted with cable-operated animatronics allowing it to blink and grimace.

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Watching 1 horror film everyday in October 6/31

Fright Night (1985), dir. Tom Holland

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CHRIS SARANDON as JERRY DANDRIGE in Fright Night (1985), dir. Tom Holland

Of course, uh, now that I've been made welcome I'll probably drop by quite a bit. In fact, anytime I feel like it.

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Friday Night Frights Frankie <33

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Fright Night movie poster advert from April 1986 (UK)

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My Top 10 favorite 80s Horror Movies

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)

2. Near Dark(1987)

3. The Lost Boys(1987)

4. Killer Klowns from Outter Space(1988)

5. Child’s Play(1988)

6. The Slumber Party Massacre(1982)

7. Children of the Corn(1984)

8. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors(1986)

9. Fright Night(1985)

10. The Thing(1982)

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The Amazing Mr Fell (1941) | Peter Vincent (2011)

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Some of the prosthetic makeup sculpts devised by Richard Edlund's Boss Film Studios for Stephen Geoffreys, Amanda Bearse and Chris Sarandon in Fright Night (1985).

Effects artist Steve Johnson wished for the prosthetic makeup on Goeffreys as Evil Ed to be 'a little Quasimodo', uneven and lumpy. Johnson had always been bugged by how 'symmetrical' the American Werewolf in London and Howling transformations were, and wanted to do his own spin.

Chris Sarandon had three stages of makeup applied to him to represent his monstrous states; Steve Neill was assigned to do the makeup, but was persuaded by an eager Randall William Cook into letting him do the final (and most monstrous) makeup stage.

Amanda Bearse's 'shark mouth' mask was a last minute job requested by Tom Holland; Randy Cook sculpted a simple latex mask for Bearse to wear, believing that it would only be used for one brief shot. He was embarrassed when it turned out it didn't just get used for several shots, but became the most iconic image of the film!

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𝔉𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 (յգՑՏ) 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔗𝔬𝔪 ℌ𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡

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Amanda Bearse in Fright Night (1985)

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Fright Night, 2011

Dir. Craig Gillespie