Herschel Walker is facing a runoff in his bid for a seat at the Georgia State Senate. However, it’s his rallying cry for votes at a recent assembly that got people wondering — and Twitter chattering — about whether or not werewolves can kill vampires.
That’s right, the ex-athlete turned Trump endorsee, wanted to use a metaphor for trusting in yourself and he decided that the movie Fright Night was the perfect example.
Standing at the dias among a crowd of people, he recalls that he was up one night watching a “stupid” movie called, “Fright Night, Freak Night, or some type of night.”
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Don’t vote for anyone who calls FRIGHT NIGHT a “stupid movie.”pic.twitter.com/gUBv6RCK2E
— Joe Russo (@joerussotweets) November 16, 2022
Some of us here at iHorror thought it was a joke – perhaps a “Bad Lip Reading” skit? It’s safe to assume as we did, the football star meant the 1985 horror comedy Fright Night starring Chris Sarandon and William Ragsdale.
He could have been talking about the 2011 Colin Farrell remake, but we love nostalgia so we are going to go with the former.
“I don’t know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not?” Walker told the crowd. “Uh, I guess it depends on the vampire? I don’t feel comfortable making such broad generalizations. But I’m going to tell you something I found out: A werewolf could kill a vampire, did you know that? I didn’t know that, so I didn’t want to be a vampire anymore, I wanted to be a werewolf.” C’mon, werewolves die easier than vampires. And was there a werewolf in Fright Night?
Anyway…the point of his speech was faith. He describes one scene in the movie where vampire hunter Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) tries to use an assortment of anti-vampire tools to kill the “master,” but it doesn’t work because Vincent has terminal imposter syndrome. “You have to have faith for this to work on me.” Walker says about the movie scene. “And that’s the way it is in our life: It don’t work unless you got faith. It’s time for us to have faith.” George Michael would agree.
The weird address has gone viral and it has people wondering a few things: can a werewolf kill a vampire? Would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf? Or just, WTF is he talking about?
The moral of the story might be what Joe Russo says in his tweet about the whole diatribe: “Don’t vote for anyone who calls FRIGHT NIGHT a ‘stupid movie.’”