From a period when horror films were synonymous with demented madmen running around in ski-masks hacking up young virgins, it's cool to see a movie so steeped in love for the classics, when vampires slept in coffins, avoided crucifixes, and freaking murdered your butt.

So hot.

- The directorial debut of Tom Holland, who felt his previous script wasn't done justice and that he had to handle this one himself.

- First vampire film to spend more than a million dollars on its special effects, and it shows.

- Peter Vincent was, of course, named after Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, the latter of which Holland had in mind for the role. But Price's health problems and aversion to starring in more horror roles ended that train of thought, and the part eventually went to Roddy McDowall. Price would later thank Holland and McDowall for the homage.

- Actor William Ragsdale was cast as Charley on Halloween Night 1984.

- Actor Chris Sarandon was the one who suggested that Vampire Jerry would eat a lot of apples because he had some fruit bat in his DNA and was constantly cleansing his pallet after drinking blood.

- Roddy McDowall based his performance of the Cowardly Lion.

- Actor Stephen Geoffreys was a bit upset people thought he was good fit for the decidedly jackass-y Evil Ed.

- The relationship between Jerry and servant Billy was intentionally made homoerotic by Tom Holland. The actors did not pick up on this until late in production.

- The special effects team had just completed work on Ghostbusters when production started. One of the puppets they had built for the Ghost Librarian was deemed too scary and was used for Fright Night instead.

- Chris Sarandon had experience with make-up in the theater, so he'd work on his elongated vampire fingers will the crew worked on applying make-up to his face.

- They wanted Jerry to whistle "Whistle While You Work," but they couldn't get the rights from Disney.

- Actress Amanda Bearse wore a breast plate to make her vampire cleavage more...vampire-y.

- William Ragsdale broke his ankle during production, resulting in many scenes in the movie being filmed while his leg was still in the cast.

- It took 18 hours to apply Stephen Geoffreys's wolf transformation make-up. They meant to put methyl cellulose in his mouth to create a saliva-like substance, but they accidentally used a prosthetic adhesive that was gluing his mouth shut.

- Actor Jonathan Stark had to be covered in an assortment of goop for the scene where Billy melts down. He was unable to wash it off on the set, so he drove home covered in slime, at once point scaring the daylights out of a gas station attendant.

- The contact lenses worn by the actors were thick, hand painted plastic that could only be worn for 20 minutes at a time due to how painful they were to wear. Stephen Geoffreys had scratches on his eyeballs for months afterwards.

- William Ragsdale reaction to seeing Amy's vampire face was genuine; he had not see the make-up until they shot that scene.

- Upset that they had not been invited to do the DVD commentary, the actors produced their own DIY commentary.

- The remake isn't all that bad, actually, even if it is a bit pointless. Unless watching David Tennant adjust his crotch was a thing you've always wanted to see, in which case this is an important motion picture event.

So, um. Yeah, Fright Night rules.