Fantastic Fest Interview: A New Invite to The Birthday

Corey Feldman and Eugenio Mira restore an FF original

. The lost 2005 Fantastic Fest selection returns to screens this week for one night only in a restored version of the original festival cut with a special one-night event on Oct. 1 at select Alamo Drafthouses ahead of wider release on Oct.

Mira and Feldman immediately became fast friends and collaborators because of this shared connection. Feldman said, “There was a direct love for his appreciation of the art, his appreciation and knowledge of filmmaking, his knowledge of pop culture. He was on a par with all the guys who were film geeks from my world.”

While retaining those elements, Feldman was eager to help root the script more in the eighties Americana of the setting. The actor explained, “They’re coming from the perspective of Spain in the now, and not really aware of some of the pop culture references and what the common phrases were of the time.

There was method to the seeming madness. What Feldman saw in Norman is an empathetic but fundamentally awkward character who never quite fits in anywhere. So when Norman arrives at this very swanky party, dressed in an ill-fitting tuxedo with a blue ruffled shirt, speaking with a high-pitched lisp, of course he looks completely at out of place. All bold choices, but for Feldman it was all already in the script. The first time he read it, he said, “I know who Norman was. I felt him, I saw him.

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