Fright Night 2: New Blood
The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital HD in both rated and unrated versions on October 1, 2013. The rated version runs 31 seconds shorter, with 5 cuts of explicit gore and nudity from the scene in which Gerri lures a local woman into her lair. The DVD and Blu-ray feature identical extras: an audio commentary with director Eduardo Rodriguez and producers Alison Rosenzweig and Michael Gaeta, "Fright Night" webisodes and a "Dracula Revealed" featurette which includes interviews with principal cast and crew members.
Colin Farrell
Later that year, Farrell played the main antagonist in the "Fright Night" remake, joining Anton Yelchin, David Tennant and Toni Collette in the story of a charismatic vampire who moves next door to a high-school student and his single mother. The film was released by DreamWorks, with Craig Gillespie (of "Lars and the Real Girl") directing a script by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" writer Marti Noxon. Sukhdev Sandhu of the "Telegraph" wrote that Farrell "proves his comedy credentials once more...utterly seductive as the plushly eyebrowed carpenter-cum-bloodsucker", while the "New York Times"s A.O. Scott thought that Farrell played his role with "a wink and a snarl and a feline purr". Logan Hill of "New York" magazine, on the other hand, was confused by the actor's performance: "Sure, [it] may not make much sense, but neither do centuries-old vampires living in Nevadan subdivisions. So he goes for it."