Fright Night story
A young couple (Stuart Whitman, Barbara Anderson) inherits a farmhouse where they experience unseen terrors. Directed by: Jeff Corey. Story by: Kurt van Elting (s), Robert Malcolm Young (t).
8 total · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fear | major | Tom and Leona were subjected to various preternatural terrors during their stay at the old farmhouse. |
| haunted object | major | There was a haunted chest. |
| human vs. spirit | major | Tom and Leona Ogilvy moved into a house and were apparently beset upon by one or more spirits that were perhaps attached to a mysterious trunk in the attic. The spirits perpetrated various hoaxes that turned Tom and Leona against each other. |
| husband and wife | major | Young married couple Tom and Leona Ogilvy spent a night in a spooky farmhouse. |
| haunted painting | minor | The farmhouse portrait of cousin Zachariah seemed to be inhabited by his ghost. |
| psychological stress | minor | Tom was stressed out over having writer's block and being haunted. |
| undead being | minor | A ghoul-like cousin Zachariah appeared to Tom and Leona looking for the chest. |
| witchcraft | minor | Lucifer was invoked by the voices. |