Fright Night (1985)
William Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
Amanda Bearse played the girl next door in Fright Night and then spent eleven seasons on Married with Children. She became a prolific television director and was among the first American sitcom performers to come out publicly, in 1993.