Three years after the events of Fright Night, Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is in therapy, trying desperately to forget how his neighbor turned out to be a vampire and that he teamed up with former actor and now TV host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) to destroy him. Or, if not forget, at least believe that the vampire wasn’t a vampire but rather a serial killer, and the trauma of those events caused him to imagine a supernatural evil.

Charley’s now in college, and he’s got a new girlfriend, Alex (Traci Lind.) One day after therapy, he spies several people entering his apartment complex carrying coffins. There is a similar scene in the first film. The plot of this sequel pretty much follows the same pattern as the first movie. Charley sees some spooky stuff and doesn’t believe it. Then he sees something he has to believe and tries to convince his friends. They don’t believe it until they are face to face with evil. Then they destroy the evil.

The script in this one isn’t as tight. It is a lot sillier and funnier, but the plot is a bit of a mess. There are four villains this time: two vampires, a werewolf, and a guy that eats bugs.  He might be a vampire too, or maybe something else. Mostly he eats bugs and looks menacing (he’s played by Brian Thompson, so he’s good at looking menacing).  The main vamp is Regine (Julie Carmen), and she uses her sexy vampire powers to seduce Charley. She’s ultimately going to turn him into a vamp so that she can torture him for all eternity for what he did to the vampire in the first film who was her brother.

Much like the first film, Charley mostly ignores his girlfriend while at the same time constantly begging her forgiveness. The werewolf takes advantage of this, swooping in on her when Charley has stood her up. He makes a few attempts at wooing her (and after each attempt, the eating guy tells him he was supposed to rip her throat out.)

The villains are more goofy than terrifying. There is one scene where they go bowling for some reason. It turns into a musical montage with them goofing around. One guy scoots one girl down the lanes; another one bowls with one ball in each hand. It ends with the owner’s head coming up the lane chute. It is more fun than I’m making it sound.

Eventually our heroes will have a showdown with the villains. It is pretty good, but not really all that memorable. The whole film is like that. I enjoyed myself, but it will probably be another 15 years before I have any desire to return to it.