Fright Night (1985 film)

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Fright Night (1985 film) is a horror-comedy about a teenager who discovers his new neighbor is a vampire and seeks help from a washed-up TV horror host to stop him.

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Label Occurrences
Fright Night 10
Fright Night (1985 film) canonical 4

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf film
horror comedy film
vampire film
award Saturn Award for Best Writing
awardReceivedBy Tom Holland
boxOfficeGrossUSD approximately 24,900,000
budgetUSD approximately 9,000,000
characterPortrayed "Evil" Ed Thompson
Amy Peterson
Billy Cole
Charley Brewster
Jerry Dandrige
Peter Vincent
cinematographyBy Jan Kiesser
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Tom Holland
distributor Columbia Pictures
editedBy Kent Beyda
followedBy Fright Night Part 2
genre comedy
horror
supernatural
vampire
hasRemake Fright Night (2011 film)
mainCharacter "Evil" Ed Thompson
Amy Peterson
Charley Brewster
Jerry Dandrige
Peter Vincent
musicBy Brad Fiedel
nominatedFor Saturn Award for Best Horror Film
notableFor mixing horror and comedy in a vampire story
reviving interest in vampire films in the mid-1980s
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A teenager discovers his new neighbor is a vampire and enlists a washed-up TV horror host to help stop him.
portrayedBy Amanda Bearse
Chris Sarandon
Jonathan Stark
Roddy McDowall
Stephen Geoffreys
William Ragsdale
producer Herb Jaffe
productionCompany Herb Jaffe Productions
Vistar Films
ratingMPAA R
releaseDate 1985-08-02
releaseYear 1985
runtimeMinutes 106
screenwriter Tom Holland
setIn suburban United States
writer Tom Holland

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Fright Night (1985 film)
Description of subject: Fright Night (1985 film) is a horror-comedy about a teenager who discovers his new neighbor is a vampire and seeks help from a washed-up TV horror host to stop him.

Referenced by (14)

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Fright Night (2011 film) basedOn Fright Night (1985 film)
Tom Holland directed Fright Night (1985 film)
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Tom Holland wrote Fright Night (1985 film)
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Imogen Poots portrayedIn Fright Night (1985 film)
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Charley Brewster appearsIn Fright Night (1985 film)
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Ed Thompson appearsIn Fright Night (1985 film)
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Ed Thompson basedOnWork Fright Night (1985 film)
Brad Fiedel notableWork Fright Night (1985 film)
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Brad Fiedel workedOn Fright Night (1985 film)
Roddy McDowall notableWork Fright Night (1985 film)
Amy Peterson appearsIn Fright Night (1985 film)
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Art Evans notableWork Fright Night (1985 film)
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Chris Sarandon notableWork Fright Night (1985 film)
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Chris Sarandon appearedIn Fright Night (1985 film)
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