This is actually my first vampire movie, and before I start let me just say I prefer the Anne Rice vampires more than the Twilight variety so if you've got recs in that vein, give them to me!
Anyway, Fright Night was awesome. It's an 80s film about a kid who suspects his neighbor is a vampire, and nobody believes him.
I loved it but I don't think will be rewatching this mainly because of the slow pacing and how the plot circles around the same few threads, it doesn't get nearly as crazy or charming as I had hoped it would.
Fright Night is still an immensely fun movie to watch with an interesting premise and a colorful distinct cast of characters. More than a movie, it feels like a tradition, there will probably be a lot of movies wanting to be like Fright Night and try to give us the current generation equivalent to this film.
The practical effects are superb and so are the gory kills and I love how it pays homage to older horror vampire stuff while building a new modern ground for films to come, sort of like Scream where teenagers are used to watching slasher films. A classic!
I guess it just leans more into the campiness, I agree about horror but found some parts of it funny yet predictable. I have seen some vampire movies on tv as a kid but that was just Twilight and Van Helsing, I don't remember much about them. This is the first one I have seen start to finish