What follows is the Fright Night portion of the interview:
Quint: Of course, I’m a kid of the 80’s, so I love the original. Can you talk a little bit about the tone? I don’t know if you are a fan of the original…
Anton Yelchin: I love the original. It’s awesome.
Quint: That’s good to know. Was that kind of the vibe on set? “Let’s try to do something in that vein?” I don’t think anybody wants a shot for shot remake, but…
Anton Yelchin: This one is definitely not as campy. There are definitely self-conscious things about it, but the other one is literally like (Rainer Werner) Fassbinder without that much anger. The humor isn’t as mean, you know? So, yeah. This was definitely less campy and more of a… I think it’s really, hopefully, going to be scary. Sitting in 2010 watching FRIGHT NIGHT is not scary, but I can imagine like in 1984 or 1985 (it was). The effects are awesome. They are gruesome and…
Quint: And as campy as the movie is, it’s still goes for the horror. It’s kind of like AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, which as funny as the comedy is in that, they weren’t [frick]ing around when they designed that werewolf.
Anton Yelchin: Seriously.
Quint: And the same thing with the vampires in Fright Night.
Anton Yelchin: Cronenberg does that a lot where it’s like really self-conscious and really creepy, but also kind of funny and weird. It’s different, but you know what I mean. Like the VIDEODROME stuff is like so weird and uncomfortable and then so is THE FLY. I think this one is definitely, I hope, going to be pretty violent and scary and funny at times. The cast is so great and I think Colin [Farrell] is an awesome vampire.
Quint: That was pretty inspired casting.
Anton Yelchin: Yeah, he’s awesome. He really is really, really awesome and he just possesses that quality of being an intense sexual predator, which the original was all about and he really inhabited that original… The thing that Chris Sarandon brought to it. In this one, I think it’s just jacked up more and like I said a little less campy.
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What do you think of the idea of a remake of Fright Night? Do you have any thoughts on the original or hopes for the remake?