As an up-until-recently with it Movie Guy, I feel I should offer some [belated] correction to the two young men loudly discussing the movie Fright Night in the YMCA weight room this afternoon.
1. For starters, the movie was released in 1985, not "a long fucking time ago," as one of you - the wannabe alpha male with the lousy form on your preacher curls - described it. Why, I remember '85 like it was yesterday, and just because neither of you were actually born at the time is no excuse not to familiarize yourselves with the era that brought us Back the Future and Commando.
2. And what are you talking about; "Nobody was in it?" What about Roddy McDowall, Chris (first husband of Susan) Sarandon, Amanda "Marcy D'Arcy" Bearse, or...the guy who went on to make gay porn? And are you seriously telling me you've never heard of writer-director Tom "Child's Play" Holland? What kind of heathens are you?
3. Finally, Fright Night is hardly accurately described as an "old ass horror movie," as you both so blithely dismissed it. Did you know they were making scary movies all the way back at the turn of the (20th) century? Were you aware that most films of the genre released by the 80s were - necessarily - derivations and remakes of true classics like the Universal horror movies of the 1930s and the Cold War analogs of the 1950s? Of course you don't, because you're a couple of high school meatheads whose historical perspective, on film or anything, begins with the first season of American Idol.
And not being able to bench as much as a 40-year old man is pretty sad, frankly. Don't think the lifeguards stuck inside because of the rain didn't notice.