Movies like Fright Night (1985)
The best movies like Fright Night (1985) are Blood & Donuts (1995), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991) and Transylvania 6-5000 (1985). If Fright Night hooked you with its comedy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Lost Boys (1987)7.1/10 from 2,450 votes
- NewestRenfield (2023)Released 2023
Blood & Donuts (1995)
In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991)
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTransylvania 6-5000 (1985)
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Midnight Hour (1985)
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoys from County Hell (2021)
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lair of the White Worm (1988)
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSubspecies (1991)
Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost Boys: The Thirst (2010)
A mysterious fiend uses a designer drug to turn partiers at an all-night rave into his personal army of never-say-die bloodsuckers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSubspecies 4: Bloodstorm (1998)
Vampire fledgling Michelle Morgan has escaped the grasp of her master Radu Vladislas. Found by a woman named Ana, she is taken to a hospital where a doctor claims to be able to cure her vampirism. Radu, recovering from the near-death delivered by Michelle and her friends, travels to Bucharest to follow his fledgling. He visits the vampire Ash's stronghold. Ash and his protege Serena plot to destroy Radu and employ the help of the humans, Ana and the Doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
Shortly after high school student Jeremy Capello goes on a hot date, he finds he can't stand garlic or see his reflection in mirrors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be too late....
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNadja (1995)
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOnce Bitten (1985)
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisScream Blacula Scream (1973)
After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's adopted apprentice is chosen as the leader. Willis seeks revenge by reviving the African prince Blacula — but soon finds that he cannot control him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Night Stalker (1972)
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDef by Temptation (1990)
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Relatives (2022)
A nomadic recluse living on the fringes of society reconsiders his bloodthirsty legacy when a teenage girl shows up claiming to be his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Vamp (1986)
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she meets Maximilian, a smooth-talking Caribbean playboy determined to romance her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove at First Bite (1979)
Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNear Dark (1987)
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInnocent Blood (1992)
Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lost Boys (1987)
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFright Night (2011)
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVampire's Kiss (1989)
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWaxwork (1988)
Wealthy slacker Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends, are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which displays eighteen of the most evil men of all time. After his ex-girlfriend and another friend disappear, Mark becomes suspicious…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRenfield (2023)
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Fright Night?
The closest matches to Fright Night are Blood & Donuts (1995), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991) and Transylvania 6-5000 (1985). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Fright Night?
People who watched Fright Night most often go on to Blood & Donuts (1995), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991) and Transylvania 6-5000 (1985).
What is the highest-rated movie like Fright Night?
The Lost Boys (1987), rated 7.1/10 by 2,450 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Fright Night?
Renfield (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Fright Night?
Yes: Blood & Donuts (1995), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991) and Transylvania 6-5000 (1985).
How are movies similar to Fright Night chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Fright Night, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.