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A long time ago, Joel Schumacher made awesome movies (Pre-Batman nipple suit)…although “Number 23” was pretty cool. Among those awesome movies was a vampire film called “The Lost Boys”. It was released in 1987. Justin’s awesome coverage of Horror Hound 2009 brought all of my great “Lost Boys” memories back. It was the first vampire film I really enjoyed followed by another 80s classic, “Fright Night”. I think the humor and story are what sold it. It had Corey Haim as a new kid in town with a brother that gets bitten by a vampire. He needs help from the Frog brothers: Edgar and Allan, played by Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander.
The sequel which was talked about for years by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Girls) ended up being a horrible Direct-to-DVD movie called “The Lost Boys: The Tribe” that a bunch of people rented and bought because they were excited about a sequel to one of their favorite 80s vampire films. The difference is that Joel Schumacher doesn’t do direct-to-DVD films. It showed. P.J. Pesce, the new director and the fx crew decided to make the vampires more like the vampires from the tv show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” instead of going with continuity. Their faces looked different from the source material…which made no sense. Too much cg was employed. The way they died wasn’t even the same…lame burning corpses. The new one also had two very bad actors. One played a bitten sister, Autumn Reeser. The other is Tad Hilgenbrink. He was also in the awful “American Pie Presents: Band Camp”. Direct-to-DVD sequels might be his forte.
“Lost Boys: The Tribe” did get some things right. Angus Sutherland was cast as the head vampire. He is the half-brother of Kiefer Sutherland who kind of lead the vampires in the original. He looks and sounds like him. Corey Haim was in it…in a scene in the middle of the credits and in an alternate ending on the disc. Most people didn’t bother watching the scene in the middle of the credits, choosing instead to push stop and hope they were dreaming the film about surfing vampires up. I was one of those people and found out about that fight two days ago. It left a little bit to be desired, but I decided to post it for you and yes…it does cut out randomly. There was no actual fight. Just them charging at each other:
Here is that alternate ending that I wrote about:
That’s Jamison Newlander coming for Edgar in the alternate ending…and apparently he’s bitten Sam. But according to bloody disgusting, Jamison Newlander is the only one of the two coming back. So which ending stands? Edgar definitely doesn’t know Allan is coming for him if Sam didn’t tell him. The alternate ending set up the third perfectly…it was about the only thing that the sequel did perfectly aside from star Corey Feldman. And yes…the windows are tinted dark on his car, but it is still daytime! A vampire sleeps during the daytime. The first “The Lost Boys” touched on that key vampire fact in a crucial scene in the film.
Evan Charnov, writer of the TV show “Fearless” will be writing the third film. Warner Premier, Warner’s direct-to-DVD division is distributing again and Feldman will be executive producing the next sequel. No word yet on who the director is, but apparently Warner sent P.J. Pesce a bottle of wine after the last one did well, so I’m sure that we can expect some more Buffy-ish vampires in “The Lost Boys 3” and his directorial efforts again. I’m going to give them one more chance on the sole basis that this is about the Frogs and not a stupid brother-sister story line…but my hopes will be nowhere near as high as they were for the last one.
Last edited: Mar 31, 2009 @ 01:00 PM, 353 days ago |
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I watched the Tribe last night and thought it was pretty bad. They tried to throw in all kinds of references which I thought was REALLY bad (the aunt wanted to watch Goonies and eat Dunkin Donuts, the Big Lebowski reference, when the brother calls her “little sister”) oh yea, the Cry Little Sister song on that movie was TERRIBLE.
There was too much that they didn’t explain. I didn’t care for that. No idea what happened to Allan, and no idea what happened to Sam. I like how Jamison Newlander and Corey Haim are both in the credits, but neither of them appear in the actual film.
Left by Justin on Wednesday, April 01 @ 01:36 PM / Permlink