As I sit down with Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek, E-Ring) to talk about his latest project, a foray into feature film with the genre slasher flick My Bloody Valentine 3-D, I want to tell him that I was shocked and awed by the "not your parents' 3-D" that he is so animatedly plugging and that he brought something special to a normally one-note type of character. Well, at least the latter is true.

Smith is a veteran TV actor who, in his early twenties, moved out to New York to basically give himself "five years to see what [I] could do." He spent about six months in accounting classes bef...