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Assistant Publisher 58 NIGHTMARE JIIlILBUJUiI SJIIlITH 7 POSTAL ZONE LIBRARY Circulation Director "Unholy" roller A talented ART SCHULKII"I discovery Creative Director 10 MONSTER 62 PH & PEN OF W.R. JIIlOHALLEY INVASION First ALEX GORDON Financial Director pix: "Nightmare 4" "Freaks" fanfare JOAl'l BAnZ Marketing Director FRANK JIll. ROSI"IER 24 DR_ CYCLOPS 64 CLASSIFIED AD Priceless Price VAULT ... RIGHTNIG PARI.2 Bares Its Fangs :=---. The .t.... of Frlght.lffght- Part 2 40 their 4arD.e4Ht to oatdo The Lo.t Boy.' l_bioDable attire. (Left to rilbt: Jonathall Onea, Brian ThOm.PMtD. Julle ClU'IIlea and ...MUClark.) ollywood Rule *1: Never kill By MARC SHAPIRO snakes around an open bathroom a goose laying golden eggs. door while the shower beats a H Take, for example. Friday estimated $50 million worldwide to background ra.ta.t.a.ta.t. Wallace is the 13th. Part VII (soon to be Part date). it seemed a safe bet that there satisfied and yells, "Cut." VIII), or A Nightma.re on Elm Street would be further adventures for The studio where the lion's share 3 (soon to be Part 4). or ALIENS Peter Vincent and Charley Brewster. of Fright Night-Part 2 is being film­ (soon to be .. well, you get the pic­ ed is a little-used relic from the ture). The Set Visit: Day ODe 1940s, The sucker's also pretty So when a rather small but FX· Tommy Lee Wallace plays footsies drafty, which explains why. after crazed little exercise in vampire with shower steam. First take: U's exiting a mock-up of Charley tomfoolery called Fright Night prov­ too thick. Second take: It's too thin. Brewster's apartment, Wallace puts ed not only a critical success (I. e. Are you ready. baby bear? Third on a heavy jacket to snuggle up for a somebody other than FANGORlA take: Wallace motions the cramped quick script read. Jeffrey Sudzin, liked it) but a box office bonanza (an camera crew slowly back. The steam the film's line producer, could do without the chill wreaking havoc on his ongoing head cold. But, between sniffles and sneezes, Sudzin chronicles the history of Fright Night-Part 2. "There was never any question that a sequel to Fright Night would be made," swears Sudzin. "But when a new regime took over at Col· umbia, a number of projects were dumped, including the Fright Night • sequel. When that happened, Herb ~ Jaffe, who produced the first t'Fright Night, got the rights back i from Columbia and took the project u to Vista." ~ Of course, Fright Night-Part 2, :g budgeted at $7.5 million for a ~ 45-day shoot, would have been .i! nothing without Roddy McDowall as i fearless vampire killer Peter Vincent j and William Ragsdale as perpetual :s victim Charley Brewster. "Getting i Roddy and Bill back was no pro­ ~ blem," claims Sudzin. "They were i happy to do it once they saw the ':: script." ! The second chapter in Fright f Night's stylish bloodsucking saga begins three years after the original ended. Charley Brewster, now in col­ lege. celebrates the conclusion of three years of intense headshrink­ ing that has convinced him everything that happened in the first film was all a dream. Brewster and his latest main squeeze Alex (Traci Lin) pay a visit to TV horror host Peter Vincent (McDowall), whose continued on-air tirades to beware of the unknown have once again gotten him fired. Charley begins to get that old uneasy feeling again. a feeling that·s justified with the appearance of female excitress Regine (Julie Carmen) and an equally eerie group of cohorts. Regine, as the tale un­ Colds, turns out to be the sister of the dear departed Jerry Dandridge, come to take revenge on Charley by seducing him into the vampire life. After a series of near-misses, which include girlfriend Alex's fending off the amorous advances of some of Regine's ghouls, Charley, once again aided by horror host Vincent, sets about doing battle with the vam­ piress and her horror horde. Fright Night-Part 2's .co­ writers-director Wallace (who plot­ ted the course of Halloween Ill: Season oj the Witch) and the duo of Miguel Tejada-Flores and Tim Met­ calfe {of Revenge oj the Nerds in­ famyl-have invested the sequel with so much '80s hi-tech and glitzy hipness that one is sorely tempted to compare Part 2 to an episode of Miami Vice. Sudzin is quick to laugh that comparison off. but Carmen, putting on makeup in preparation for a heavy seduction number. feels Fright Night-Part 2's attitude is definitely now. "Intellectually, it's clever in a very new wave sort of way," judges Cannen, whose exotic appearance makes her the ideal candidate to suck Charley's blood.. "This film sits on the cutting edge all the way down Loale tran.rorm., .. McDo_all' ••tant double bang. on ror dear ute. the line. Regine is definitely a freaked-out personality, kind of like Fright Night-Part 2 romp. Carmen poured on her body, thanks to the a cross between Tina Turner and read everything concerning vam­ ordeal by fire required in the crea­ Catherine Deneuve." pires and watched every vampire tion of a glamorized vampire mask Carmen, whose talents are on dis­ movie she could lay her hands on. by FX supervisor Bart Mixon and play in The Penitent and The Milag­ Naturally, she watched the original key sculptor Brian Wade. "The six ro Bea.nfield. War, hasn't always Fright Night until she was blue in hours required to get the neck and, waxed so enthusiastic about the the face. face piece on was hard enough, but film, In fact. she remembers an early "I picked up some mannerisms the actual molding of the mask was draft of the script that sent her look­ from the Jerry Dandridge character, a killer." groans Carmen. "I had ing for a stomach distress ~ag . "I such as his wink and the Bela Lugosi never had prosthetics applied was afraid of the part because way he held ~is hand. that 1 use in before, so you can imagine what Regine's character was nothing this film," Carmen reveals. "But I happened when Brian and Bart more than an Elvira imitation," the stopped looking at the first movie poured alginate and plaster over my actress winces. "The revisions made when I realized I could very easily head. When the plaster began to her a more multidimensional being fall into the trap of being a female harden, I got totally claustrophobic who happens to like sucking blood.." clone of the Jerry Dandridge and started to panic. The only thing Subsequent rewrites so impressed character. " that saved me was that I meditated Cannen that she began turning The actress jokingly claims she and gave myself up to the weight of things down right and left in order will have a clause in future con­ the plaster. But I was so freaked that to thoroughly prep herself for her tracts against any latex being I went home that night and cried. FANGO RIA 1176 45 during a break in his action. "I'll tell you. I meet a lot of people who say, 'I don't go to those kind of movies. but I hear you were very good.' .. Ragsdale. attired in a bathrobe (he spends a good part of this movie in the vicinity of a bed), remembers he took the persistent rumors of a Fright Night sequel in stride, but was more than willing to repeat the Tole of Charley when the rumors got serious, and he's happy to report "The effects are a variation of things that have aD been done before." -visual FX coordinator Gene Warren Jr. that his second turn at Charley is not a carbon copy of the first. "Charley gets involved in more of an emotional battle," he assesses. "The first fUm was more of a physical thing. He's been in therapy and is trying to cope and decide whether or not to believe in all this strange stuff that's happened to him. What he has to deal with is much more troublesome, emotional­ ly. and so the role has a lot more substance. "Charley is a character that is very close to home for me at this point," continues Ragsdale.