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.
Fright Night
Sarandon was offered a role in the 2011 remake and chose to pass on the torch by doing a cameo as a man who's eaten by Jerry Dandrige. Sarandon pointed out that "It's not the original and they didn't set out to make the original," but the cast and crew of the remake "were all huge fans." Farrell had watched the film countless times during his youth and publicly stated, "I heard they were remaking "Fright Night" and went, ‘Ah, god, remake! Hollywood, so dull! And I read the script and really hoped I "didn't" like it, and I did. Recalled Sarandon of his first encounter with Farrell, "He walked in and he literally was almost shaking, he was so excited at the prospect of meeting his childhood idol. He gave me a beautiful bottle of wine and a DVD set of the Carl Dreyer "Vampyr". It was a really graceful and wonderful introduction."