VAMPIRES: Pt 15 - Fright Night (1985) & The Lost Boys (1987)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 118 minutes
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This week Mike is joined by Jamie Graham to discuss two of the coolest vampire movies ever made…80s classics FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) and THE LOST BOYS (1987)
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | 1985 was a big year for American teen and coming of age movies. John Hughes had become |
| 0:29.5 | a household name with his iconic film The Breakfast Club. Joe Schumacher broke through to the main |
| 0:38.3 | stream with his brat-pack classic St. Elmo's Fire. And of course, Robert Zemeckis' back to the |
| 0:46.0 | future was the biggest grossing film of the year. Meanwhile, a young writer called Tom Holland was |
| 0:56.0 | about to make his directorial debut with one of the first ever teen vampire movies, |
| 1:02.8 | Fright Night. It perfectly blended the fun colourful style of teen movies from this era with classic |
| 1:10.5 | vampire mythology and added a post-modern twist by making our teen heroes aware of vampire movies |
| 1:18.4 | and vampire lore. Two years later, Joe Schumacher followed up his teen movie St. Elmo's Fire |
| 1:28.0 | with The Lost Boys. Similarly to Fright Night, this vampire movie focused on pop culture savvy teens |
| 1:35.6 | contains an instantly iconic soundtrack and would go on to inspire just about every teen |
| 1:42.3 | vampire film for the next three decades. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of |
| 1:54.8 | the vampire and we discuss two 80s teen vampire classics, Fright Night and The Lost Boys. |
| 2:02.5 | Michael. Michael. That's why I want to hear every term I enter a room. Hello and welcome back |
| 2:13.2 | to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter and as ever, I am your host. If you're |
| 2:18.8 | tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history |
| 2:24.0 | and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genre's one series at a time. |
| 2:29.9 | We are currently in the middle of our eighth series exploring the evolution of the vampire |
| 2:35.3 | and this is part 15. This week's episode is sponsored by $20 Patreon subscriber Joe |
| 2:41.9 | Minehart and in this week's episode, as that intro suggested, we're covering two absolute |
| 2:47.5 | bangers. Fright Night from 1985 and The Lost Boys from 1987. Both of these discussions will be |
| 2:55.3 | spoilerific. I'm sure there's not many people out there that haven't seen these two films, |
| 2:59.5 | but if you haven't, what are you doing with your life? Go and watch them immediately before |
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