What’s a monster movie without its monsters? Just a plain old movie of course. Which Fright Night certainly ain’t. Saving its big budget effects for the last quarter, Fright Night comes barrelling at us with some truly spectacular beasts.

Of them all, the impressive werewolf death scene, in which actor Stephen Geoffreys had to don all manner of prosthetics, is a particular highlight.

“It’s one thing when you’re there on the set making it,” notes Stephen Geoffreys, “and then when I saw it for the first time put together with the sound, it just – I could not believe how incredible it looked.

“And that scene, with the stake, I guess that was shot in post production after everybody had left. It was agonizing. It was almost inhuman the stuff that they put on me. But ya know, it turned out great, so it was worth it.”

Ragsdale likes that scene for its pathos. “Usually that’s the heroic moment,” he notes, “when you kill the beast. And in that moment, there’s so much sympathy.”