fright night was a very fun movie. it's less concretely intertextual than scream (which iirc namechecked it), but really fun.
cw for somebody pushing another person's sexual boundaries in the opening scene tho
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i think, if i compare it to scream (being also a highly referential comedy horror movie), fright night is the more enjoyable film in itself, but its overt metatextual elements were weaker (being mostly just allusions to vampire films as a whole; although then again maybe there's a lot of more specific bits i missed because of my limited familiarity with the genre and the film not namedropping specific films)
also, unlike scream, fright night was actually a horror movie with comedic elements rather than a comedy full of horror references