I like playing "horror" parts on the screen. This may surprise you, but let me explain my point of view. There is a popular idea that portraying a monster of the Dracula type requires no acting ability. People are apt to think that anyone who likes to put on a grotesque make-up can be a fiend. That is wrong. A monster, to be convincing, must have a character and a brain.

October 27, 2007 (The Sun) -- A maniac branded "The Vampire" was jailed for a minimum of four years yesterday after fleeing a secure hospital and holding a gran hostage.

April 5, 2007 (nbc30.com / MANCHESTER, Conn.) -- Manchester police have charged a 21-year-old man after they said he scratched a girl’s face with his fingernail to show her that he was a vampire.