The Lost Boys: The Thirst

I saw a preview of this movie during a Corey Feldman/Lost Boys panel at the New York Comic Con a few months ago.  Over this past few months, and after watching all three of the Lost Boys, I formed a theory about Corey Feldman. 

I have to admit that Corey is a little quirky in person (and dresses like Michael Jackson) but let's be honest about something.  There is no denying that as a child/teenager, he was a really good actor.  Stand by Me.  The Goonies.  Dream a Little Dream.  The Lost Boys.  He actually explained during the panel (I will put these videos up one of these days, dammit) that he was really into acting when he first started, but that after a while, it was really his parents pushing him to keep doing movies.

So my theory is this.  Corey Feldman is the second coming of Bruce Campbell.  He knows EXACTLY how ridiculous and cheesy his acting is.  You can tell when he delivers his lines in The Thirst that he is hamming it up on purpose.  And the grunting?  I'm starting to think this is all a big joke to him.  No one's going to replicate The Lost Boys so let's make some corny laughable sequels.  You can't argue with that in my opinion.

So to The Thirst.  Edgar Frog is now pretty much broke and he's getting evicted from his trailer.  Jamison Newlander is back as Alan Frog, looking pretty worse for the wear.  Edgar heads over to the comic book store, trying to sell some of his comics to help pay the rent.  Shopgirl Zoe seems to have a little crush on him and offers to help him make some cash on the books. 

Meanwhile, he returns to his home/trailer to find he has a visitor.  This is Gwen and she has quite a story.  Apparently, a bunch of vampires are throwing these rave parties where they're handing out a "designer drug," which is in fact vampire blood.  This is all part of a master plan to create a new race of vampires.  Why is Gwen involved?  Her brother went missing at one of the raves.  And guess what?  The next one is coming to San Cazador.

Edgar is reluctant to help out, but ends up changing his mind, after much grunting.  But it's a little late and Gwen has hired reality show macho man Lars Von Goetz to help out.  They all suit up with weapons and head over to the island.  A vampire/rave battle ensues, and I have to admit, the twist ending was pretty good. 

I liked this movie too.  It was definitely better than The Tribe but they obviously had a little more cash and special effects to put into this one.  If you're a vampire/Lost Boys/Corey Feldman/cheesy movie fan, I would definitely recommend it.

Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)

I don't care what y'all say.  I liked The Tribe.  Sure, it's no Lost Boys, but there's a lot of lousy vampire crap out lately and I didn't think this flick was too bad at all.

In this installment of Corey-Feldman-still-cashing-in-on-his-teenage-years, former surfer Chris Emerson and his sister Nicole move to Luna Bay to live with their aunt.  Their parents have died and they really have nowhere else to go.  They need cash, so Chris stops by Edgar Frog's surf shop, hoping to get a job.  Chris and Nicole hit a party later that night, where Nicole drinks vampire blood.  Overprotective Chris drags her home, where she starts to act like....guess it....a vampire!

Edgar Frog tries to save poor Chris from his bloodsucking sister, but he's not hearing that noise.  But after a bloodthirsty sexual encouter gone awry, Chris finally seeks out Edgar's help.  Edgar explains that if they kill the head vampire, Nicole can be returned to her human form (not sure why this is, but okay) 

Edgar and Chris locate the vampires' lair and, in true Lost Boys fashion, a battle ensues.  Who will make it out alive, and with their humanity?  Corey Haim (RIP) makes a quick appearance at the end, and I wonder if he would have played a larger part had he had his shit together at the time.  Tom Savini also appears for a bit (random).

Yes, I know that Corey Feldman's acting is horrendous.  After watching the two Lost Boys sequels one right after the other, and seeing him at the Comic Con, I actually have a theory about this.  I will share this theory in my The Thirst review.

Overall, I thought this movie was pretty good, and I will even venture so far as to say I would watch it again.  Haters gonna hate ;o)

Random: New York Comic Con Day 2

Bruce Campbell was at the Comic-Con but he was charging $40 for autographs.  I love ya, Ash, but $40?  Come on.  So instead, I stood sort of near him and took a photo.  He looks much older than you would think.

Day 2 of NYCC was quite eventful.  We were running very late in the morning and were pretty sure that we were going to miss the Lost Boys/Corey Feldman panel.  However, once again, I misjudged the demographic of this event, and they didn't even fill the room for Edgar Frog himself.  No worries though, because I was excited to see Corey Feldman and get a peek at the new Lost Boys sequel.

If you guessed that Corey would show up dressed like Michael Jackson, with Jersey Shore style shades, you would be correct.

Here's a bit of a better picture:

Corey Feldman was actually a LOT funnier that I thought he would be.  He's very good at laughing at himself, admitting that he's made some mistakes along the way and that Lost Boys: The Tribe was just plain awful.  He also talked a lot about Corey Haim, which was touching, and they even showed a clip of the two Coreys together in the original Lost Boys.  We got treated to tons of clips from Lost Boys: The Thirst and although it looks relatively cheesy, I'm still going to check it out.  I have tons of video from this panel that I will post at another time.

Next up, we hit the exhibition floor running.  I saw a lot of the same horror stuff I had seen the previous day but it was good to check it out again.  Snagged a couple of horror posters that I had missed on Friday, and checked out some cool costumes, comics, and anime craziness.

The most disappointing part of the day was the Saw signing.  Got there at about 1:15 for the 2pm signing.  We were about 100 people back in line, and I should have known this was going to be a shitshow because absolutely no one was managing the line.  It moved at a glacial pace for the next nearly two hours until we finally reached the front around 3pm.  We watched NYCC volunteers establish a cutoff point about 30 people behind us.  Sweet, we were in.  Until, without warning, when we were TWO PEOPLE from the front, they announced the signing was over.  WTF?!  We got signed posters (not personalized, of course) as a "consolation" but everyone was pretty bummed at that point.  They really should have established the cutoff point earlier so we didn't waste time.  Also, I missed the MTV horror panel to deal with that nonsense.

We checked out Bruce Campbell and walked around Artist Alley for most of the rest of the day.  We stopped back to the Walking Dead setup to see if there were any giveaways or fun stuff, but it was still just the badass banner and comics for sale.  Boooo.

All in all, a fun experience.   Stay tuned for my "tips for attending NYCC" and more in-depth posts on Inkubus and Infected.