Werewolf Ambulance: A Horror Movie Comedy Podcast - Re-Release - Fright Night (1985)

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

Hey everyone, we are re-releasing a classic episode from the early days of Werewolf Ambulance this week in lieu of the Sinners episode. They're both vampire movies. (I tried!)There is a lot going on right now & we weren't up to recording this week. We'll be back soon with a new episode. In the meantime if you have a little scratch laying around, our friend Pye could use your help. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-pye-battle-cancer   Thanks so much & we'll be back in your ears soon! 

Hi, and welcome to another episode of Werewolf Ambulance. I'm Katie and I'm here with my friend Alan. Hey, Alan. Hey, Katie. How are you? Are you a ghost today? Katie, I'm a British ghost. Oh, no, wrong movie.

No, no, not Ghost Ship, not again. No. No, I am not. I'm a su ghost. Oh no, wrong movie. No, no, not Ghost Ship, not again. No. No, I am not. I'm a suave vampire this time, Katie. I'm a sexy, sexy suave vampire in a beautiful turtleneck. So many weird necklines in this movie.

Somebody's sweaters with leather patches. Yes, this is a really well-costumed movie. Maybe we should tell you what movie we're talking about. Well, I assume the new suave-swap vampire is Friday night Friday night 1985 1985 excellent wait, there's a there's there's no other Friday night. It's just 1985. That's the one. Okay There's a remake in 2011. Oh is Prince Humbert ink in it. No Then well Colin Farrell no America's Prince Humbert and feral no America's Prince Humperdinck we are gonna do spoilers if this is the first episode you're listening to so watch the movie if you care about that

kind of stuff if not listen on and you can probably guess how this one is it's true yeah it's true so Friday Night is about a teenage boy named Charlie Brewster who Is basically just trying to get to the bone zone with Marcy from Married with Children. Yeah, as any respectable red-blooded 1985 teenage boy would be. Yeah, and he has a new neighbor move in next door to him that he comes to believe is a vampire. Right. Well, we should also mention that Charlie is a horror freak. He loves the gothic horror films. Yeah, and he's a big fan of a guy who plays

a vampire killer a lot named Peter Vincent, who is clearly like a mashup of, I don't know, like. Well his name is a mashup of Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. And he's also a nod to like all the horror hosts of Yor with like, like Zachary Lee and uh, Chilly Billy Cardelli, Pittsburgh Zone. Pittsburgh Zone.

Chilly Billy Cardelli. So he's a nod to that as well, which I really adore. Yeah. Yeah, he's a great character. It's a great movie. It is. Really enjoyed it. All right, so we're following Charlie Brewster trying to make out with Marcy Darcy,

aka Amanda Beers, aka Amy. Amy. Although in my notes, I refer to her only as Marcy. And you know, he's a horror freak and he's watching while he's making out with this girl on the pillows next to his bed, like total high school style. I loved it. I really appreciated it. On the TV is Peter Vincent introducing a horror movie that he's starring in also, which I really thought was quite fun. Then Charlie notices that something's happening next door and they're moving a coffin into the basement next door.

This really elaborate coffin is being moved in. His girlfriend is ready to go to the aforementioned bone zone. But Charlie is now fixated on this coffin which is a shame because a few minutes earlier he was pressuring the shit out of her i have written here maybe she's not ready Charlie and so Charlie actually uh ends up running out of the room to go tell his mom that a vampire is moving in next door his poor single mother his poor beleaguered single mother sort of oblivious as well. Yeah, she's just trying to go to the bone zone, too

It's true doesn't matter with him. Just anyone Causing his girlfriend to leave the house and you know setting up some some turmoil in Charlie's life the next night He's looking through the next door neighbor's window right sees him being Prince Humbert ink with Lady a lady a A lady. A young lady. A young lady. Seemingly very young lady. Which comes up again later, which is upsetting. And he's like, you know. They're mackin'. There's some hot sacks going. There's a lot of closed eye rubbing. And that's what I call it. And this is the first boobs that show up in the movie too. Yeah. Yeah.

Humbertink, Jerry Dandridge, the vampire. Not a good name. It's a great name for a vampire. You know what's a better name? Prince Humbertink. Chris Sarandon is the actor playing the vampire. Oh, he's so hunky in this movie. Yeah, surprisingly hunky. I would not think of that guy as a hunky dude, but he's totally rockin' right. Really well cast as a hunky dude. Yeah, he's standing behind a young lady. Hunky evil dude. I'm sorry. Is that a special kind of hunky?

Yeah, because you can be like a hunky nice guy, or you can be like a hunky bad guy. So is that this like the bad boy to the anthony sort of thing? Yes. I like it. Katie's into hunky evil dudes. Who isn't?

Name me a woman in their 30s who isn't. So he's standing behind her, takes her shirt off, takes her bra off. Her bra is doing nothing. It's like made of spider webs. I don't know what it's doing. It's a wish bra. It's a wish bra. And Charlie's watching this whole thing as any self-respecting 17 year old boy would

be. With binoculars, despite it being about 15 yards away. And this is the first time you see Jerry Dandridge's fangs come out as he's about to bite into the girl's neck. And he gets like long gross fingernails too. Yeah. Well, I really liked the subtlety of him changing to a vampire. Like, this is right around the time of the more dramatic changes of vampires like the Lost Boys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And stuff like that, you know, where they get the big brow ridges and all that stuff. And he does later on have a really dramatic change, but this is more subtle. Yeah, still hunky. Yeah, sensual vampire. Sensual vampire. So Charlie becomes convinced that he kills this woman. Right. And then the next day after that, he's coming home from school when... Oh we should mention that Jerry Dandridge notices Charlie staring

at him and draws the blind so you don't actually see him bite the girl. Oh right, right, right. So at this point there's still ambiguity. Yeah. He might just be like a goth guy who likes to wear fangs or something. Yeah, that seems legit. Yeah. I mean before Craigslist there had to be something. So the next day, Charlie's getting home from school and he sees a woman getting out of a car being dropped off at his neighbor's house dressed very scantily. Right. Very high heels. Yeah.

She's practically wearing a sandwich board that says prostitute. Yes. It was very, like very 80s prostitute. Yeah. Yeah. At like 330 in the afternoon. Right. You know he gives this lady the up and down. Yeah. So the next day at school he's in like the hip cafeteria like the Saved by the Bell cafeteria with the TVs and everything and there's a story on about a woman who's been murdered and her body's been found and he recognizes it as that lady. Yeah. so he goes to the cops.

Right. And the cops are like the worst fucking cops on the planet, this cop that he works with. I like the cop because he looks like he came out of a 70s cop TV show. Yeah, they were like, we need a short black man in a trench coat. So the cop takes Charlie over to his next door neighbor's

house and he says, this kid says you're a murderer, which is not, my friends, how the criminal justice system works. I mean, you were what, 11? You have no idea how it... No, you weren't even... I was one. You were one. I was 11.

You were one. You have no idea what the criminal justice system was like in 1980. This is Reagan era. Things are going crazy. I guess. I guess. I guess. I guess.

In this scene, we also meet Prince Hopper's helper, like, live-in dude guy. Right. Right. He's kind of like a butler, but he just wears polo shirts. Named um. Billy Cole, played by Jonathan Stark. Billy Cole.

Yeah, Billy Cole. Old Billy Cole. And I like him because he wasn't, he wasn't a Renfield. He wasn't like a super crazy whack job. He was just like, hey, what's going on? I'm the guy, I'm the guy next door. Yeah. And I was doing a little reading about that, and that's how Jonathan Stark got the role is he came in and he didn't play it crazy. He just played it like, if you're going to be a dude who's protecting a vampire, you probably want to seem as normal as possible. Yeah. Just a regular dude with poofy poofy cooch ball hair.

Yeah, a lot of tucked in shirts too. 1985. What are you going to do? Yeah, it's pretty sweet. So the cop seems to be taking Charlie's accusations seriously enough to go there, but then Charlie freaks out and is like, he's a vampire. We got to open the coffin. And the cops like, you get out of here. You wasted my This is what their voices sounded like just basically how I'm doing them now I think the cop tells him if he does this again, I'll put him in jail forever Yeah, right, right. You can go to jail forever for that. I mean, it was the Reagan era Trickle down then from there Charlie goes over to his friend's house to talk to him about

vampires and his friend is to him about vampires and his friend is fucked up. Evil Ed, he's great. He is so weird. Steven Jefferies, yeah, he's fantastic. He rules and is the worst. He's everything. Well, watching this movie, I've seen this movie a ton of times and every time I'm like, man, I really want to be Charlie Brewster, but I know that I'm just Evil Ed. I don't think anybody's Charlie Brewster though, you know? Yeah. I could pull off a tweed jacket with elbow pads. Yeah, cause you're in your forties. Oh, that's right. Ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And Evil Ed is just like a really skinny kid with like big spiky hair and he's always talking like this. You're so cold Brewster. He is so weird. He like basically, you like can't have characters like him in movies in a post-Columbian era. Oh, geez. You know what I mean?

I like him because he's like, he's every 80s nerd trope. Like he's obviously like got a little bit of a science thing going on because he's working like he's working with electronics when Charlie comes in his room and he's got a little rock and roll with his sleeveless black t-shirts and all that stuff. He's just, he's just a token dork. I guess. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate the token dork. And he tells Charlie that he need not worry because the vampire can't come into his house without being invited. Right. So naturally Charlie's desperate single mother totally invites him in it because he's so fucking hunky. How's she supposed to not? So naturally, Charlie's desperate single mother totally invites him in. Right, when Charlie goes home.

Because he's so fucking hunky. How is she supposed to not? And they're drinking Bloody Mary's. I love that. And when he's in their house, he's whistling strangers in the night, which I also really loved. Yeah. He's just a suave fucking dude.

Oh, he's so good. Yeah. Oh my God, I need to just watch all of his movies. This is getting weird for me. You just discovered you have a criss-arounded fetish. I know. It's so funny. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have a fetish. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have a fetish. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have a fetish. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have a fetish. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to have a fetish. I just watch all of his movies. This is getting weird for me.

You just discovered you have a Chris surrounded fetish. I know. It's so weird. He's just such a good, hot, bad guy. There's just like, there's nothing else to it. Yeah, for sure. Although later he gets a little weird. So he leaves and then comes back later.

Right, for the full blown threat. Yeah. To really lay into Charlie, let him know that now he's been invited in. Hangs him out the window, basically, doesn't he? He slams him into the wall and chokes him and knocks his pinball machine over. Charlie's mom notices none of this damage to the home. No, she's got an eye cover on. Oh, right, right.

I'm assuming she also took some, oh god, what was the Xanax of the day? Valium. She took some Valium god, what was the Xanax of the day? Valium. She took some Valium before she went to sleep. This is when we see the full transformation into Ookey-Cookey Vampire because Charlie stabs him in the hand with a pencil and he wooden stakes him in the hand. Those were finger quotes you guys heard just then? Yeah. And that's when Chris Aranda becomes just an ugly, heinous, Nosferatu.

Still kind of hot though. Oh god. Just kind of hot though. Oh God. Just kidding. I guess, I guess. JK, cause I was called on it. Right. Yep. Uh, and then Charlie sees on TV this really well-timed spot for Peter

Vincent's, uh, vampire hunting show. Right after Chris Sarandon like books because he's been wooden staked. Yeah. Charlie's like, Oh, well I'll go see this guy. Right. And at that point, the guy on TV is been wooden staked. Yeah. Yeah Charlie's like, oh, well, I'll go see this guy right and at that point I got on TV is obviously a vampire hunter Yeah, right at that point I have in my notes How is this movie another hour and 15 minutes because this seems like it's getting to the climax It is not we haven't even gotten into the nitty-gritty of a Roddy McDowell yet. Yeah, this is It's a long movie. It is a really long movie.

I mean, I don't feel like it feels like a slog at any point, but it is a long movie. Yeah. It's surprisingly long. There's no need for it to be as long as it is. Right. But I still enjoy every minute of it. But I think it could be chopped down by a half hour probably.

Yeah. So Charlie goes and he approaches Peter Vinson, Rodney McDowell, and he's just like, Ronnie McDowell in amazing old man hair, which is just like cake with flour. Yeah, yeah, it's a powdered wig. It is literally a powdered wig. It's awesome. And you also see him like 20 years prior in the movie clips that they're playing.

So he's like doing this really wide age range and stuff. I kind of want to watch his, uh. Oh yeah, watch the shit out of those movies. They had ridiculous names like they were like orgy of blood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That sounds real actually. Yeah, but it was on the, it was along those lines. So he goes in, he approaches Peter Vinson and it just happens it's on the exact day

that he's been fired from the TV station he works at because no one's watching horror movies anymore. They just want to see demented madman running around in ski masks hacking up young virgins Which I feel like should be the tagline for our our podcast This is what Katie wants You love demented man-man I do

I love a high body count I'm simple I guess I prefer your subtler horror films my NPR tones Mm-hmm And so Peter Vincent kind of wants none of his bullshit. He's offering to sign an autograph, but then when Charlie's pressuring him to come hunt a vampire with him, he's not, he ain't having it. Yeah. And then eventually Ed, Evil Ed and Marcy go back and pay him to help Charlie. Right. After

they see that Charlie's like totally lost the plot, like he's covered his room and garlic and crosses. He's cutting work like wooden stakes and lost the plot, like he's covered his room and garlic and crosses. He's cutting work like wooden stakes and he's just like, he's gone off the deep end. Their idea is to help him by, you know, paying Peter Vinson a $500 bond. It made me so sad. It made me so sad that he was like, Oh, I'll definitely take that. I was like, Oh, Peter Vinson, so sad. But then also like, what if Marcy's mom was like, well, you could use that bond you have.

And she's like, oh, I gave it to a TV vampire hunter to have him prove that someone wasn't a vampire. Am I good? To help my handsy boyfriend. Yeah, yeah. You know the one who's always grabbing at my tits? Charlie. You're so cool, Brewster.

We're also like 15 minutes into this movie like is going on forever. So they go and meet with Peter Binson, he agrees to do it. They set up a meeting with Jerry Dandridge to go the next night and Jerry Dandridge is like oh well now I'm going to get him in the house, ha ha ha. And doesn't do anything with him. No, I didn't understand his excitement about that. Were you going to kill all of them? No.

So they set it up so he's going to drink some holy water. But Jerry Dandridge makes sure to point out that he's born again. So no crucifix is no actual holy water, but he'll drink tap water. He's a man of God. Yeah, a man of God. And he chugs the holy water, which is just tap water, and everything's fine. And everyone's like, Charlie's not being a dick bag.

And Charlie's like, no, he's still a vampire. How could he do that? And then Peter Vincent's leaving and I guess he's gonna check his makeup because he pulls out a compact with a mirror and a cigarette case or something. And sees that Jerry Dandridge casts no reflection. I was trying to help.

Do you wanna do that again? Nope. Okay. You looked lost. Well do that again? Nope. OK. You looked lost. Well, that's, I'm sick. Hey, guys, I'm sick. Peter Vinson drops his mirror, and it smashes on the ground. A little sliver rolls away to be brought up again in three

hours. To be stepped on later by Jerry Dandridge, letting him know that they know that he knows that they know, that he's a vampire. And- Yep. And some more shit happens. Well, some more shit.

You're skipping an amazing part. So Evil's going to peel off and go home and Charlie's like, no way, dude. We've got to walk Amy home. So they're walking Amy home through the city. All of a sudden they're in the city. They're in the suburbs and then all of a sudden they're in the city. And Evil's like, well, I'm just going to rip down this alleyway. And they're like, no, don't go alone, don't go to the alleyway. And he's like, fuck you guys, man, there ain't no vampires. Says dumb, dumb,

dumb, dumb, dumb, killed by a vampire. This scene was actually pretty sad. So sad. Him crying was like really moving. Like I don't have a lot of feelings when people die in movies. Shit. Well you know they're gonna die. Like you know from the beginning, evil is not making it to the end of this movie. I think I was afraid the I don't have a lot of feelings was gonna have a period. I was already oh shitting. This is my beaches moment again. No like he you know he's gonna die. So he gets killed.

But it really like upset me. It's really beautiful on some level because Stephen Jeffrey is really good at just capturing that sad teenage boy who feels alone in the world. I have no idea what that felt like. And then the best part is that the compassion that Chris Sarandon has for him. It makes him so much more handsome.

He's just like, it's a beautiful it's a beautiful, like taking him in. He's like, no one, no one understands you and they don't like you. Yeah. Never going to like you. And he's like, it's a real big bummer. Yeah. But it's awesome. Well done. Yeah. Kills him, turns him, turns him and then hunts down Charlie and Amy in a dance club, club radio. So good. It looked like so much fun I wanted I like I've been to clubs, you know, and it's not really my scene. It's like to you know I don't I'm not good at it. I think I could be good at club radio. Yeah, you can slightly gyrate

Oh, that's all you have to do just slightly gyrate I'm slightly gyrating right now, which is exactly what Prince Humbertink does with Marcy in a super gross scene because he's like an early middle-aged man and she's a teen and he's just fucking going to town on that. Yeah. I mean, technically he's probably a few hundred years old. Yeah. So it's even more gross.

The scene is really like the scene at the end of Dirty Dancing, the time of my life scene. I like half expected Jerry Orbach to be sitting in club radio. I don't know who that is. Jerry Orbach? You know who Jerry Orbach is? No, I don't. Get the fuck out.

Who's Jerry Orbach? He was on Law and Order and he was like the, he was the dad in Dirty Dancing. Oh, okay. I don't remember who he was. Come on, he's dead. The Dirty Dancing. Oh, okay. Come on. He's dead. The man is dead. He died for your sins. Jerry Orbach died for your sins.

I would wear that. I bet a lot of people would wear that. People who don't even like this podcast. Look him up. You'll know who he is when you see a picture of him. But yeah, it's really like the dirty dancing scene. It's like just very like sort of choreographed sexy dancing in low light. And it's weird.

Wait, bleeding right into a Terminator style fucking brawl where Terry Dander is just beating the shit out of the bouncer. Yeah, he kills them. Leon. It's awesome. I like anything where you grab someone's hand and just crush it. I think that's really, that's a good plan.

You're like, look how strong I am. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. That's a good wrestling move too. The feat of strength, you know? Not bought to you by WWE Studios. Nope. So then Jerry takes Amy back to the house, or on a first name basis.

Yeah. Earlier, we noticed that Jerry is looking at Amy going, she looks just like her, doesn't she? And Billy Connolly goes, oh, she does. And then we go over to a painting of someone, of someone from his past. Never explained to you. That looks vaguely like Marcy Darcy. It's totally Marcy Darcy. It's a portrait of Marcy Darcy. So Jerry Dantridge in that like that homage to Dracula sort of thing where he's falling in love with the woman from his past. Yeah. It's like you know not that jazz. And they kiss and it's extremely uncomfortable. So yeah he takes her to the back to the house gets her to take

her top off. It's real weird. Yeah and then he bites her. Yeah and turns her. And I wrote I didn't expect Amy to die a virgin. There's the one scene where I'm pretty sure he goes to... You know what? I thought that, but then... But she goes, I've never. But then you can see his belt buckle. You can see his belt is buckled. No, I thought it was... Oh.

That's what I thought was happening. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, movie. I don't know. Oh, man, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, movie. How come I've never noticed this before? Oh, man. Yeah. Is that a vampire thing? Well, technically, I mean, you would think that they couldn't get like erections or anything. Why couldn't they get erections?

Because they don't have any blood. But they're like the ultimate seducers. What is the point of being a seducer if you can't get an erection? The punishment of it is you're the ultimate seducer, but you can only kill. Your sexual release is murder. Oh, tape a popsicle stick to it or something.

We're leaving this bit in. I know you thought this was coming out, but this is staying in. So, shit. So yeah, he's making out with Marcy Darcy. She takes her top off. He bites her, turns her, and. He's wearing the strangest collar in this scene.

It's like a boat neck sweater that curls down at the edges. He's been wearing turtlenecks, he wears mock turtlenecks, he wears the fucking weirdest shirts in this movie. And you know what? It doesn't take away. Looks fucking good. Oh, he's so good. Height of fashion in 1985. Yeah, so ill.

Collarless trench coat? Yeah, he was working it. High-waisted pleated slacks. With a shirtless. So, so fucking hot. So then we cut to evil, right? Who is now a vampire haunting Peter Vincent, Peter Vincent in an also very sad and like haunting scene. I kind of, this scene lost me a little bit because he like doesn't get any more like overblown or dramatic as a vampire. He's pretty much that way the whole movie. He's on 11 the entire time.

The entire time. And then he becomes a wolf? Yeah. Well, you're skipping ahead because this is when there he goes to Peter Vincent's apartment and Peter, he like tells him that he's being hunted by a vampire. Peter Vincent takes him inside and then he turns out he is a vampire. And Peter Vincent, pizza him that he's being hunted by a vampire Peter Vincent takes him inside and then he turns out He is a vampire. Yeah, and Peter Vincent pizza Peter Vincent puts the crucifix on his head. Oh, yeah, and burns him and he jumps out the window It looks like one of those um, Virgin Mary toast things Yeah

It's a very got iconic image at this point of the like screaming Evil Ed with the burnt crucifix Like there's t-shirts and all that jazz So he jumps out the window and then Charlie comes to get Peter Vinson to get him to help him. And Peter Vinson's like, I can't do it. I gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. This movie is very confusing to me because it's just a series of people going from like one house to another, to another, to another, to another, to another, to another. Reading about the movie, they did two weeks of rehearsals where they basically set it up like a stage play and they ran through the entire movie.

And I wonder if that's why there's those like set pieces. Oh, maybe. Because he was thinking of it as like a theatrical performance. Interesting. So I have a hard time remembering the chronology. Right. And also a lot of the stuff in the middle

is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right, right. And yeah, everyone has to go to Peter Vincent's house at least once to try and get him to do a thing. Yeah. And Ronnie McDowell said that like, house at least once to try and get him to do a thing. Yeah. And Ronnie McDowell said that like he kind of based this character on the cowardly lion. There's the bravado when like the false bravado when he's going to do a thing that he knows he doesn't actually have to do. But then when real shit comes up, he's cowardly.

Which having read that, I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. It is. So Charlie goes to Jerry Dandridge's house and just walks in, just busts in the front door. And then suddenly Peter Vincent's behind him. No, no, no. No, you skipped over where he kills evil as a wolf in Charlie's house.

I thought that was after. Ah, fuck, who knows? Okay. So he kills evil as a wolf. Right, Peter Vincent, like- But we are vampires wolves? Yeah, they can go back and forth. That seems like it's chomping at the wolf man to me a little bit. You already have a bat.

Why do you need, you know? No, they've always been able to transform between werewolves and bats. I think what happens is Peter Vinson shows up and then goes to check on Charlie's mom. I have seen this movie so many times that I'm losing this part of the movie. Sure. Oh, I do have written here, I hope Charlie's poor mom doesn't come home

to find Evil on the carpet. So they're in Charlie's house when Evil becomes, oh, cause he goes to check on Charlie's mom and Evil's laying in the bed with a raggedy and way gone. Oh, right. And he pops up. Also, that's not what Charlie's mom's hair looks like. No, she does not look like raggedy. Not at all, not even remotely. But Evil looks really great And he pops up. Also, that's not what Charlie's mom's hair looks like. No, she does not look like regular hair.

That's fine at all. Not even remotely. But Evil looks really great when he pops up because his teeth are just fucked up. He just has these gnarled fangs and he's got the contact lenses in, which at that point in time weren't contact lenses. They were just half ping pong balls. They were scratching everyone's eyes and everything. They were really murderous looking.

So they engage in combat. Evil turns into a wolf and jumps on Peter Vinson but as he's doing that Peter Vinson has a table leg that he stabs him with and stakes the vampire. And then another super sad scene with evil. His death scene I think is really sad because he just and Peter Vinson stays with him through his death which I thought was really touching as well. It's a beautiful movie. Beautiful. So then we go back to Jerry Dandridge's place.

Basically Hope Floats. I've never seen Hope Floats. It was literally the first thing that popped into my head. I believe having never seen that movie, my review was so to shit. We go back to Jerry Dandridge. Back to another house. Yeah, back to house. And you know, Jerry Dandridge is Back to another house. Yeah, back to house.

And you know, Jerry Dandridge is just fucking with them. And like he does the cool thing where he's walking down and scratching the railing with his big, big, long ass finger. And we are told by Peter Vincent, who knows this from movies, that Amy won't die if they kill the vampire that bit her before dawn. So they have to kill Prince Humbert Inc. So there's a long battle that goes on throughout the entire house. They end up in the basement.

This basement. It's got hundreds of years of collected crap in it. No, that's not my beef. It is full of windows and gets excellent light because they bust out all the windows and he burns to death. Yeah, it gets light from every angle. Yeah, just like basements do. Oh, and there's the death scene for Billy Connolly. I don't even understand what that was.

He just turns into goop. Yeah, what is the toady and why is he filled with slime? I don't know. I don't know. Okay. I don't know enough about the lore of the Jerry Dandridge vampire. I have several other questions. So yeah, they beat the vampire. Marcy Darcy turns back from, although we do see her full transformation into a vampire

and she looks awesome. Why is her hair so long? You know, she's sexy now. That made me kind of mad. I like the idea of that making you mad. Well, it's like she couldn't be pretty with her short haircut. I like the idea of that making you mad. She couldn't be pretty with her short haircut. They literally just put a silly wig on her when she's a vampire and then when she wakes

up again as a teenage girl, her hair's back to being short. Come on fucking guys. Come on 80s. But she has that giant mouth. Yeah, her giant mouth is huge. Yeah, it looks really nice prosthetic on that. Here's another question. Okay, so they've killed Barry killed very dangerous. Everything's fine

Yeah, do you think Amy keeps the gauzy white dress that he dressed her in? I hope so It looks really nice on her. I thought about her wearing it till I cursing your prom. Yeah And then I wonder if it was like too many bad memories. I should say not everything is fine because there's a great Bumble bangle moment at the end of the movie where Marcy Darcy and Charlie are making out and hanging out in his bedroom. And then the camera pans over to the window across the street or across the way and Jerry Dandridge his house and there's two little red eyes. Oh yeah, that's right. And then you hear evil laugh and that's the end of

the movie. I love it. Yeah. It was like my memory being a fucking bag of garbage. Well, I think the thing about this movie is that there's about an hour of it. There's just people running around, fighting vampires vaguely. There's no real, you don't need to remember the chronology of it. You know, the beginning and the end, and that's about it. Right, yeah, yeah.

I would assume at this point, I've seen it so many times that it's just mush in my brain. Yeah, probably it's like mixing with your own childhood, and you're like, remember when we had all this fog machines around our house and every time you looked at it, it was foggy. I love the way that house looks when it's super foggy. It's so silly. It's so cool looking.

So speaking of the set design, I have this theory and it's that this movie, Monster Squad and the Burbs all exist in the same universe. Oh, okay. Because it all looks like it could be on the same street. It really does and part of me really likes that idea Yeah, they're three of my favorite movies and like they're three charming ass movies So yeah, that was like that could be a world that I could go exist in. Yeah, can I go live where Monster Squad is now? only if Rudy is there speaking of hot bad guys.

Mentioning Monster Squad, not a lot of people know that that's where the name of this podcast came from. It's from a track. Alan, I didn't know that. It's from a track on the Monster Squad soundtrack. I did not know that. You probably told me and I just forgot. Werewolf Ambulance. That's cool. I'm glad we did that. I love that movie. I didn't know in the soundtrack. Yeah, I would love to do's cool. I'm glad we did that. I love that movie. I didn't know in the soundtrack. Yeah, I would love to do that movie. There's a song in that movie that I really love where he's waking up for school with the day.

The montage scene? Yeah, love that song. Rock until you drop, dance until your feet fall off. Rock, dance until your feet fall off. Yeah, so I really like the idea that this, they all exist together. Yeah, they're all friends.

Yeah, and I can go live there. So. You're a scary. Yeah, and I can go live there. So. You're a scary German guy, aren't you? Probably, probably by the time I get there. Another piece of pie. God damn it, that movie's so good. I know. All right, enough monster squad.

Yeah. So I feel like this movie for me, I was 11 when I saw this movie. I was probably actually 12, because I saw it on HBO. So it was probably out for a year or two before I saw it. And I was just like, fuck, can this be teenage years? Can this be me growing up? Like, it was just like, yeah,

cause I didn't know what making out with girls was. Now you know. And that stuff. And you know, like how great would it be to be able to meet like Zachary and have him come and assist you in a situation like that stuff's so cool. Isn't it so sad what you think your teenage years are going to be like and then what they're really like? Oh man. I already read a lot of Sweet Valley High and I remember thinking

that I was going to go on a lot of dates as a teenager. No! You know, it's just nothing is well, let's save that for our feelings podcast, feelings ambulance. Werewolf tears. Yeah, but I feel like this, this movie really like, it gave me hope and like something to aspire to. This could be my shitty suburban, you know, like growing up. Yeah.

It wasn't, no, it was, it was. There wasn't a vampire next door to you. No, there wasn't. Or was there? Nope. No, it was. There wasn't a vampire next door to you. No, there wasn't. Or was there? Nope. No, no. Probably an elderly couple. No, just nice family. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, this movie. It's good. I really like this movie. It is good. I really liked it. It's on Netflix. It's uh, I wish it was shorter. Like, you know how I get about that.

Where it's hard for me to sit for that long because I'm a petulant child. Seven. Oh. Seven. Well, okay. You didn't even have to ask for that long because I'm a petulant child. Seven. Seven. You didn't even have to ask me. I knew it, I was ready. You jumped right in. This is the first time, this is beautiful. Seven, it was a seven.

You give it a seven? I think a seven. Yeah, it's good. For Hot Chris Sarandon alone. Oh, fine, eight. This movie, yeah, I love this fucking movie. For Hot Chris Sarandon? Just for the total package.

Oh, he is the total. I'm sorry, I'm done, I swear, I'm done. I'm gonna, I really wanna give it a 10. I just fucking love it so much. I'm gonna go nine, I'm gonna go nine. I'm gonna downgrade it a little bit, but I love this movie. The poster art is fantastic with the cloud vampire

up in the house. You know, this is the same director that directed Child's Play, so that's pretty sweet. Tom Holland. The how at the beginning of this movie is almost exactly the how that we use at the end of the podcast. That we found on Clipsounds.com.

Free Clipsounds for your free stuff shit dot com. There's, I mean Roddy McDowell, like fucking, I'll watch Roddy McDowell in anything. I love that dude. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna give it a nine. Great. Solid ass movie. We like this one.

Yeah. So what are we doing next week? Next week we're doing the Dario Argento classic, Suspiria, witch. Witch. Witch. So you can find us on Facebook, we're Werewolfambulance. Twitter, we're Werebulance. Instagram, we are Werewolfambulance.

We're really keeping it as simple as we can for you here. Yeah. Thanks so much to everybody who's been liking our stuff and talking about us and hyping us up. Yeah, guys. It's really beautiful. Thank you so much. It's hardening, knowing that people are like,

you like me, you really like me. You really like me. Thanks for listening to another episode of Werewolf Ambulance. Bye. Bye. you