Nick Damici and Ethan Embry star in the latest horror flick Late Phases and both actors discussed how this movie differs from other creepy films as well as what is necessary to scare an audience.

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The film, which hit select theaters this weekend, stars Damici (Stake Land, Mulberry St) as Ambrose, a blind war veteran who moves into a new place where a werewolf terrorizes the neighborhood. While this movie might sound like it takes on the typical monster genre, there's actually a lot more to it than that.

"It's really the story about an aging warrior who gets one last chance to be what he was in a sense," Damici exclusively told Enstars.

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Even though this film is classified as a horror flick, it has a couple other categories attached to it.

"Kind of a mosh between happy horror and drama," Damici added.

Considering that the actor plays a blind character, Damici admitted that he blindfolded himself to prepare for his role, but it didn't exactly go as planned.

"I did the typical thing thinking as an actor, 'Oh hey, I'm going to play blind so I'll blindfold myself and be blind for a while and see what that's like,'" he said. "And after I lit my nose on fire instead of my cigarette a few times and spilled my coffee, it wasn't working."

The actor also explained that he enjoys being part of the horror movie genre because he can have more fun as opposed to an average drama.

"I've just seen so many in my lifetime that I don't want to see another one," Damici said about dramas. "Contemporary dramas and I'm just like 'Eh, who cares? Life sucks, we know that. I'm 54 years old, I've seen enough life to know it sucks. Show me something fun."

Ethan Embry (Can't Hardly Wait, Harold & Kumar) classifies Late Phases as a "classic creature movie" and revealed what works when it comes to giving the audience a good fright.

"To really scare your audience, you have to get them to buy in on the situation in some form," Embry said. "There has to be some element that they've grabbed a hold of."

The 36-year-old then admitted that there wasn't too much he had to do to prepare for this role - unlike his co-star who apparently had to do a lot more work.

"I think all the preparation for this movie came on the shoulders of Nick," Embry said. "All the heavy lifting was done by him, and mostly my job description on this was to follow his lead and help him as much as I could when he needed it."

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