Growing up one of my absolute favorite movies was "Fright Night". I remember watching that with my friend Tom Gerard over and over and over when I was about maybe 11 or 12. Its continued on as one of my favorite vampire movies, although I'm sure a lot of that is simply for nostalgia reasons. Anyway, it was on cable last night and I caught the last half hour of it or so (which is too bad, cause I like the first half of the movie the most), and was struck by two questions: First, whatever happened to the guy who played "Evil Ed" Thompson, and is the soundtrack available for purchase anywhere? So, being the geek I am, I looked online to find the answers to these two questions, and the reason I'm blogging about it is because both answers were so weird I had to share this info with any other "Fright Night" fans out there.
First, it turns out that "Evil Ed" (played by Stephen Geoffries) went on to have a long film career... as a gay porn star using the name "Sam Ritter." While there were certainly some homosexual overtones in "Fright Night" (as could be argued about any vampire movie), I really didn't see that one coming 
Now, as for the soundtrack, that is apparently very hard to come by, maybe even harder than the soundtrack to "The Shining" (probably because there is almost surely considerably less interest, except among a few weirdos like myself). Its so rare, in fact, that Amazon has no listing for it, and the one copy of it on eBay is going right now for $202, and that is after 4 bids with 3 days to go! There was one copy of it on eBay for $90, but it was for an LP, not a CD. Anyway, who knew there was this kind of weirdness surrounding one of my childhood favorites?
Comments (2)
Will? I didn't realize that this was one of your favorite movies? Looks like we have more talking to do! At any rate, I guess I could see where "Evil" wanted to be accepted in the film...that is why he ended up bitten, he wanted attention and I believe he was jealous of "Brewster" and his girlfriend (just think about this for a minute) Wow...this was one of my favorite movies also...My favorite part was when the "Vampire Killer" finally saw that the vampire was a vampire when looking in the mirror and seeing that the vampire didn't cast a image...
Thanks for the memories!
MIA
Posted by MIA | August 26, 2003 5:15 PM
Posted on August 26, 2003 17:15
I too loved the movie fright night.
"Evil Ed" was a great character and i think
his fear made him make the decision...he prolly figured that he'd become a vampire or die as
as a victim of the vampire. It really wasnt his
fight, and figured since he was forced to be in the middle of it, Evil Ed mise well join. whatever made him make that decision,
he made a great character and became my personal
favorite. Amy also became weak and ended up seduced by Jerry Dandrige as well...so apparently
jerry has a way with mortals that no one understands.
Posted by Vaine | February 19, 2004 7:45 PM
Posted on February 19, 2004 19:45