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.
Director: Tom Holland
Tom Holland directed Fright Night and Child’s Play and wrote Psycho II. He worked largely in horror and had a distinct comic sensibility inside it, which is what makes Fright Night hold up.