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T’S A BALMY, POSTCARD-PERFECT DAY IN LOS ANGELES, AND COLIN FARRELL IS PRETENDING TO BE A VAMPIRE. NOT JUST ANY VAMPIRE, THOUGH – FARRELL IS RECREATING A SCENE FROM THE 1985 HORROR-COMEDY CLASSIC FRIGHT NIGHT. HE STANDS AT THE DOOR OF A TINY OFFICE IN A NONDESCRIPT EDITING SUITE, TURNS HIS HEAD TO ONE SIDE AND DELIVERS HIS FAVOURITE LINE FROM THE FILM: “SHE’S SOMEONE I KNEW, A LONG TIME AGO.” He hams it up and gives it a bit more theatricality than is strictly necessary, but
you’ve got to hand it to him, the Irish-born actor does a pretty mean Jerry Dandrige. This isn’t the version of the “GQ vampire” that Farrell is bringing to the screen this month in DreamWorks’ Fright Night remake, though. Screenwriter Marti Noxon (TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) have
crafted a predator who takes more cues from Ted Bundy than Dracula. “I love the whole notion of the vampire as having some romantic yearning, searching
through all eternity for someone who’ll take the trip with him,” says Farrell. “I really wanted that notion in the film, but it wasn’t designed that way. This version of Jerry is a sexual predator – someone with very little, if any, notion of what it is to be human
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