USA Up All Night

Shocker / Fright Night (1997x42)

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Hosted by Rhonda Shear Film 1: Shocker is a 1989 American horror film written and directed by Wes Craven. It stars Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, and Mitch Pileggi as the evil antagonist Horace Pinker. Both Craven and Universal had hoped for the film to launch a franchise. However, due to the middling commercial performance and poor reception of the film, no sequel was made. Film 2: Fright Night is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by Tom Holland and produced by Herb Jaffe. It stars William Ragsdale, Chris Sarandon, Roddy McDowall, and Amanda Bearse. The film is also the directorial debut of Holland. The film follows young Charley Brewster, who discovers that his next-door neighbor, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire. When no one believes him, Charley decides to get Peter Vincent, a TV show host who acted in films as a vampire hunter, to stop Jerry's killing spree.