Episode 40. ReVamp: Fright Night (1985) and The Lost Boys (1987)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In the 1980s, vampires left their castles and European hideaways for American suburbs and small towns. In this episode, Andrea and Alex examine what happens when the monster you fear is part of your community and discuss what is to be done when they want to borrow more than just sugar…. REQUIRED READING Fright Night. […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Welcome. Welcome to Flight Night.
0:45.0	Flight Night.
0:48.0	For real.
0:52.0	For real. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror Podcasting from the Harrod Halls of Academia.
1:00.0	I'm Alex West with Andrea Subasati and fangs for joining us guys. It is July it is
1:07.8	summer it is hot it is steamy and as we promised last episode we are talking about two steamy vampire flicks.
1:17.0	Now these films aren't necessarily box office success stories but they are so beloved within the horror canon.
1:25.0	They feel to me like really youthful vampire films.
1:29.0	I think any listener who is at approximately our age has a certain sense of nostalgia about these
1:34.3	films and I think new listeners and new horror fans going back to these films will
1:39.3	find that they still hold up as really fun vampire
1:42.7	flicks. And I think these two films and these two films are of course
1:46.8	Tom Holland's Fright Night and Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys have not only
1:52.4	the nostalgia that Andrea was mentioning but also such a love for
1:56.3	the horror film and we've talked about this so many times on the podcast of films that
2:00.9	we all consider to be horror films but that the filmmakers are so
2:04.8	reticent to call horror and these films wear that horror badge proudly they are
2:11.6	proud card-carrying members of the horror community. And I think that's partially
2:17.4	the reason why they are so embraced as great films in the horror community on top of being really strong films.
2:24.7	And they're also oddballs.
2:26.2	I think when we get into the production histories of both films, not only are they
2:29.6	labors of love the
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