Fright Night/YMMV


 * Complete Monster: Jerry
 * Interestingly, he seems to try to subvert this when he tells offers Charlie 'something he doesn't have, a choice.' However, it soon becomes clear just how sadistic and evil he is.
 * Cult Classic
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Evil Ed, oh so much. When his actor, Stephen Geoffreys, refused to appear in the sequel, critics considered it career suicide. They were right.
 * Evil Is Sexy:, in the basement before final transformation.
 * Foe Yay: Between Jerry Dandridge and "Evil" Ed. It's not subtle.
 * Freud Was Right: The entire film is about sexuality and growing up. Amanda Bearse does a yeoman's job of being convincingly a girl, and as the film progresses, she becomes more and more mature, At that point, it's hard to believe it's the same actress. Ed goes through his own sexual awakening  as well.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Jerry is not eating the apple. He's cleaning his teeth.
 * In hindsight, it also makes for quite the proto-reference to another work of vampire fiction that uses apples for symbolism.
 * Ho Yay: Jerry and Billy seem close. Very close.
 * Hell, Charley's mom's first line of dialogue is saying that she thinks a gay couple moved in next door!
 * Between this, the Foe Yay, and how Dandridge treats either gender of victims, forget Subtext, it's downright text.
 * Memetic Mutation: Just about everything Ed says: "You're so cool, Brewster!", "To what do I owe this dubious pleasure?" was apparently pretty popular in the 80's.
 * "HIS DINNER IS IN THE OVEN! MMM-MMMM!"
 * My God, What Have I Done?:.
 * Nightmare Fuel: The makeup effects on toward the end. Originally the effect Richard Edlund designed for the librarian ghost's One-Winged Angel form in Ghostbusters, but it was kept out of that film because it was just too frightening for it.
 * This also comes with a bit of Enforced Method Acting. William Ragsdale wasn't allowed to see full makeup until they actually started shooting, and if you look at his face when  turns to attack him, you can see he's legitimately scared out of his mind.
 * The scene where Evil Ed shows up under the covers of Charles' mom's bed with a red wig, the wig's pretty narmy but the face gives a legitimate Jump Scare.
 * Also when he turns into a red-eyed wolf (a real one),, he slowly turns back into his human form, and by change I mean being that a near naked humanoid with a wolf's face that slowly morphs back into a human shape which looks disturbing and demonic at the same time and the the gurgle   will leave an impact on you. In addition to the hand effect of solidifying back into a human shape as well.
 * Jerry's caretaker/partner who goes from Perpetual Frowner to Affably Evil in a nanosecond of his introduction,.
 * Jerry going One-Winged Angel and.
 * Tear Jerker:.