You know, I'm sure there's a guy in a suit in the Warner Brothers offices in LA who sits in an office, looking at "properties" trying to figure out how to bleed all the creative potential out of them.
He saw a poster for Lost Boys and thought- "hey, Twilight is hot right now, let's revive the brand."
Twenty-one years after the original. That's not too long a time between movies. I mean, there was a 16 year gap between the Space Odyssey movies and Chinatown and The Two Jakes. And eleven years between Screams 3 and 4.
Um yeah, it might be a while there.
So.
Siblings come to VampireCity, CA to live with their aunt after the death of their parents. They get mixed up with vampires. But instead of the punk vampires of the first Lost Boys movie, these guys are SURFER vampires.
In a (possibly too, too) clever bit of casting, lead vampire is Angus Sutherland- brother of lead vampire from the first Lost Boys, Keifer Sutherland.
Corey Feldman is back as Edgar Frog, vampire hunter, looking older than he did in Bordello of Blood, but not quite as burnt out as he did in Lost Boys: The Thirst.
Of course, what made the film for me was the appearance of Tom Savini in the opening sequence. After that, it was pretty much downhill.
Downhill being a relative term- on a movie like this it's still a helluva lot better than Beverly Hills Vamp.
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