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The Lost Boys
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The Lost Boys is a 1987 vampire movie with all the trimmings, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Dianne Wiest, Alex Winter, and a few other people, including Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander as the Frog brothers.Recently divorced mother Lucy Emerson (Wiest) and her two sons move to Santa Carla, California. Older son Michael (Patric) soon falls in with a gang of bikers led by David Powers (Sutherland), all of whom turn out to be vampires, while his kid brother Sam (Haim) befriends a couple of seemingly insane comic store assistants obsessed with hunting vampires (not that they've ever met one before). After sharing a mysterious drink with David, Michael begins turning into a vampire, and it is up to Sam, with the help of the Frog brothers, to save him.Followed no less than twenty-one years later by a Direct to Video sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe. Chris Emerson, a young disgraced former surfing pro, and his younger sister Nicole move to Luna Bay to live with their aunt following the death of their parents. Nicole falls for the enigmatic Shane Powers, another former pro-surfer who "mysteriously vanished" from the circuit. Turns out, it was because he became a vampire. Shane turns Nicole into a vampire, and Chris sets out to save her. Oh, and he enlists the help of Edgar Frog. The movie stars Autumn Reeser, Tad Hilgenbrink, Angus Sutherland, and Corey Feldman, with Corey Haim returning as Sam Emerson in a mid-credits cameo and two alternate endings, and Jamison Newlander returning as a now-vampiric Alan Frog in the alternate endings.A second Direct-to-Video sequel, Lost Boys: The Thirst, was released in 2010. Vampire-romance novelist Gwen needs Edgar Frog to find her brother, who went missing after getting sucked into a series of underground raves called 'X Parties', held by an enigmatic spinner named DJ X. In a last, frantic message, he mentioned being given a new party drug known as the Thirst, which Edgar identifies as really being vampire blood. With the next X Party only days away, Edgar is faced with the threat of an army of vampires unless he can stop DJ X and save Peter — but DJ X isn't just a vampire, he's the Alpha Vampire, the ultimate head vampire, and someone Edgar's going to need help to defeat. Edgar hopes to recruit his reclusive brother, who's dealing with his own dark past. The movie stars Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander as the Frog brothers, and Tanit Phoenix.There is also a four-issue comic book series, Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs. Published by Wildstorm, the series is set between the first two films and explains why Edgar is working alone by the time The Tribe starts and how Shane became a vampire, as well as the fate of several other characters from the films, some of whom are never mentioned in The Tribe. Another comicbook series called The Lost Girl was published by Vertigo in 2016, being the closest adaptation of Joel Schumacher's plans for a never-realised Lost Girls sequel.A TV series adaptation was in the works at The CW for the 2018 season, but has wallowed in Development Hell. Helmed by Rob Thomas, it would be an anthology series with each season set during a different decade. As of 2024, a musical adaptation is in the works. David Hornsby is co-writing the book, with music group The Rescues handling the music. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Alan Frog becomes a vampire. Not like it was a twist, or anything... | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The comic series Lost Boys: The Reign of Frogs is this in spades, clearing up several loose ends from the first film, and revealing some of the backstory to The Tribe. Some of the ideas in the comic (such as Alan becoming a half-vampire, and someone drinking animal blood to avoid becoming a full vampire) are also used in The Thirst. Sam's Grandpa is really a half-vampire, and only feeds on animals to stay that way. The reason he didn't return to normal at the end of the film like Michael, Star, and Laddie is because the Widow Johnson (never seen in the first movie) sired him, not Max. Michael and Star are dead, having died in a car crash. While never explicitly stated, it's heavily implied that this means that Chris and Nicole from The Tribe are their children, due to their last name also being Emerson and that it's mentioned that their parents died in a car crash. Possibly retconned in The Thirst — some of Edgar and Alan's dialogue implies that Michael and Star aren't dead. David sired Shane, back in 1987, and Shane created the Tribe because David had the Lost Boys. The reason Edgar works alone is that when he, Alan, Sam, and Grandpa Emerson went after the Widow Johnson, the raid went badly. Grandpa was killed and Alan was forced to drink vampire blood, thus becoming a half-vampire. Retconned in The Thirst — Alan and Edgar went after a half-vampire senator, and in the chaos Alan was forced to drink blood. The Emersons weren't involved. | |
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Title Drop: Combined with a Development Gag - Johnny Trash refers to his audience as "Lost Boys and Girls". | |
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Angry Guard Dog: Nanook is a lovable pooch who doesn't like vampires. Max's dog Thorn also counts as a more literal version of this trope. | |
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Heroic Dog: Nanook the husky, who does a lot more than "help a little." He even kills one of the vampires himself by tackling him into the holy water-filled bathtub. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Santa Carla, a California town so packed with undead that it's the murder capital of the world. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Sam with Edgar and Allen. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: The film is titled after the companions of Peter Pan, who remained forever young. Also the fact that Max wanted Lucy to be the mother figure to his boys, just as Peter wanted Wendy to be the mother figure to his. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: The film both plays this straight and subverts it. Out of all of the vampires, Star is the only one who never puts on her Game Face, and she is a good character. However, Michael and Laddie do show their vampire faces, but they're not bad either, and the Lost Boys, who are bad, are all easy on the eyes when not in Game Face. | |
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Feral Vampires | |
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Feral Vampires: One of the Trope Makers. Instead of being glamorous aristocrats, the vampires are portrayed as nomadic hoodlums. | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: As opposed to the male homoeroticism of the original movie, this time there are lesbian vampires. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Once an Episode: A vampire recites some version of the quote at the top of the page in each of the sequels. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Peter Lieber kills Gwen for no real reason other than seeming to find her annoying. | |
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Flat Character | |
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Flat Character: The vampires this time around, with the exception of Peter, have no personality. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: On the sweet side the heroes have managed to kill all of David's gang along with Max, the head vampire, and restored both Michael and Star to normal. But on the bitter side as Grandpa reveals to the others, those weren't the only vampires in Santa Carla. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: When Tim Cappello sings "I Still Believe." | |
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Music Video Syndrome | |
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Music Video Syndrome: Music and surreal images overlap in a number of scenes. Word of God in the commentary notes that this type of storytelling would not have been possible before music videos. invoked | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: After defeating David and the rest of the vampires, Vamp!Michael and half-vampire Star come to the horrifying realization that they're still not turned back to normal, even after supposedly killing off the head vampire. Then Max arrives, sadly looking at David, and drops this line: | |
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Trashcan Bonfire | |
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Trashcan Bonfire: Several of these are scattered throughout the Hell Hotel. | |
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Shower of Love | |
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Shower of Love: Chris shares one with a female party-goer before realizing something is wrong with Nicole and leaves to check on her. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: They're terrified of Shane's gang, for good reason. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: Played straight, as Edgar makes a comment about how he's recently read that female werewolves can transform at any time, and the viewer sees Zoe's eyes become wolf-like | |
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Fanservice: The sex scene with Nicole and Shane. Chris's shower with another party-goer. | |
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Vampire Refugee | |
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Vampire Refugee: Alan Frog is a vampiric vampire hunter. | |
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Disc-One Final Boss | |
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Disc-One Final Boss: DJ X. | |
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Vampire Monarch | |
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Vampire Monarch: According to legend, if you kill a "head vampire", all the half-vampires turned by him or by vampires under his command are restored to human form. This fails when the protagonists kill David — because Max is the head vampire. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Averted, as it's been stated that the scenes that mention Sam's death were shot before Corey Haim's death in March 2010. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Around half an hour into the movie, Edgar is thrown into a book case in a comic book store, and the contents of the shelves fall on top of him. As he gets up, a copy of the collected The Reign of Frogs is in front of his face. | |
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BFG: | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
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No Communities Were Harmed: The film was shot in Santa Cruz, California. The boardwalk features prominently, and the comic shop and both houses were actual locations in the city. In fact, the town was going to be called Santa Cruz in the film until the city council, at the last minute, got cold feet over the town being portrayed as "The Murder Capital of the World" and asked the producers to change the name, fearing that it would hurt the tourism business in the town. It didn't help that, in The '70s, Santa Cruz had been the scene of a couple of serial killing rampages, as well as a Manson-like mass murder of a family. | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: Especially on the Lost Boys, who all have glorious hair-metal-inspired mullets and long hair, but the hair on practically everyone in the film screams 80s from a mile away. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Edgar and Allen have (some of) the right ideas when it comes to vampire slaying, but they tend to fall apart at the execution phase. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: The vampire gang try to get Michael to make his first kill by bringing him along as they attack and feed upon a group of skinheads, presumably in the hopes that this trope might make it easier for him to give in to his growing thirst. | |
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Big Bad: Peter Lieber is the main villain. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: Many scenes take on a new meaning after Max is revealed to be the head vampire. A small one: Michael has an earring when he comes home, which he did not yet have when last we saw him falling from the bridge after the Lost Boys, implying that there was much more to that night than we saw onscreen. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: The merry-go-round sequence foreshadows the order in which the Lost Boys die. Marko dies first, Paul second, Dwayne third, and David last. At the beginning of the film, David and his gang show up at the video store Max is working it, only to uncharacteristically back off when Max remarks that he told the boys to stay away from his store. As it turns out, Max is the head vampire in charge of them, reframing his words as a direct order. | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point | |
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Dramatically Missing the Point: When Chris is finally able to convince Nicole that she's a half-vampire (simply by holding up a mirror to demonstrate that vampires don't have reflections), Nicole freaks and admits she's more disturbed by the fact that she tried to eat someone, given that she's a vegetarian. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: Along with Near Dark, this movie rewrote the book on vampires, in the same way An American Werewolf in London and The Howling (1981) (also both in the same year) rewrote the book on werewolves. Notably, while they have many of the folkloric strengths and weaknesses (even sleeping in native soil is alluded to, with the vampires' lair described as "one big coffin"), the one they play with the most is the "invitation". Vampires can enter a residence uninvited, but if you do invite them, you lose all power over them while inside, including attempting to exploit any weaknesses vampires naturally have such as the lack of reflection. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Subverted, but only because Edgar Frog returns from the first film and is now an adult. Played straighter by Chris and Nicole's aunt. She's unaware of the vampires, and thinks that they're just taking advantage of not having their parents around by partying all night. Even when she walks in on them at the very end, covered in blood, she assumes that they've just come back from a party and have gotten stoned. The police, meanwhile, are flat out afraid to deal with Shane's gang, despite being unaware that they're vampires. | |
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Final Solution | |
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Final Solution: Kill the head vampire, and all the half-vampires who haven't killed anyone yet return to normal. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Run–D.M.C. and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" plays over the scene where Michael witnesses the campfire massacre that takes place as David and his gang of vampires slaughter a group of skinheads partying around a bonfire. | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Santa Carla: blue skies, lovely beaches, theme park on a board walk, active night life, great music culture, and swarming with murderous vampires. As the graffiti on the back of the sign says, it's the murder capital of the world. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Gwen Lieber is certainly this, getting several underwear shots and very tight clothing. | |
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Retcon | |
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The reason Edgar works alone is that when he, Alan, Sam, and Grandpa Emerson went after the Widow Johnson, the raid went badly. Grandpa was killed and Alan was forced to drink vampire blood, thus becoming a half-vampire. Retconned in The Thirst — Alan and Edgar went after a half-vampire senator, and in the chaos Alan was forced to drink blood. The Emersons weren't involved. | |
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Fake Defector | |
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Fake Defector / The Mole: Edgar has Chris agree to take Shane's blood and become a half-vampire so that he can find out where their lair is. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Gwen Lieber is a thinly veiled Expy of The Twilight Saga creator Stephenie Meyer. When Edgar says that he knows she's the author of a series of romantic novels about vampires which are now being adapted into films, Gwen states that she's flattered. Edgar responds by saying the books suck, and derides the fans of the books as "emo goth teens". | |
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Senseless Phagia | |
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Senseless Phagia: The drug "the Thirst" — it's part ecstasy and part vampire blood. | |
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Dead Man's Switch | |
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Dead Man's Switch: Whenever a vampire is killed they trigger a "Death Curse" where the environment around them becomes extremely dangerous, often leading to fires and explosions. | |
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Sexophone | |
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Sexophone: "I Still Believe" by the shirtless, oiled-up Tim Capello plays on at the concert as Michael stares at his love interest Star. | |
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Jump Scare | |
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Jump Scare: Shane's gang announce their vampire status to a group of unsuspecting humans jokingly around a campfire, and then all hell breaks loose the second time they say it. | |
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Xanatos Gambit | |
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Xanatos Gambit: David's plot for Michael is agreeable regardless of its outcome: if Michael falls to vampirism, the Lost Boys add another monster to their gang; if his humanity prevails, Star will kill him to complete her own transformation, and David will be down one romantic rival. | |
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Face on a Milk Carton | |
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Face on a Milk Carton: Laddie is prominently featured on one. | |
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Make-Out Point | |
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Make-Out Point: This is a favorite hunting ground for the vampires, and their lair appears to be located directly beneath one. | |
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Novelization | |
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Novelization: Due to his past fantasy novels and horror short stories, Craig Shaw Gardner was given a copy of the script and asked to write a novelization to accompany the film's release. At the time, Gardner was, like the Frog Brothers, managing a comic book store as well as writing. The novelization was released in paperback by Berkley Publishing and is 220 pages long. It includes several scenes later dropped from the film, such as Michael working as a trash collector for money to buy his leather jacket. It expands the roles of the opposing gang, the Surf Nazis, who were seen as nameless victims of the vampires in the film. It also includes several tidbits of vampire lore, such as not being able to cross running water and salt sticking to their forms, and some characterization missing from the film. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Nicole attempting to seduce a boy crushing on her comes off very aggressive and predatory as she's a half-vampire and desperately attempting to drink his blood. The same woman from the party attempting to bite Chris, disrobed, and getting impaled through her chest with deer trophy antlers. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The "attack of Eddie Munster" from the original movie receives a Call-Back here — "Holy shit! It's the attack of Grandpa Munster!" Amusingly, the vampires have a Munsters Go Home poster in their hideout. | |
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Undead Child | |
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Undead Child: Laddie looks to be about eleven years old. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
| The Lost Boys / int_c93a6560 | comment |
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Invoked once again with DJ X's death. | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil | |
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Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Gang initiations that make you a vampire. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: How Edgar tells Chris that Nicole's a half-vampire. | |
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Hell Hotel | |
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Hell Hotel: The Lost Boys' base of operations is the underground remains of a hotel that was swallowed up by the earth during the 1906 earthquake. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Gwen Lieber is one for Stephenie Meyer. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Gwen Lieber was The Renfield all along. | |
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Vampire Procreation Limit | |
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Vampire Procreation Limit: A person becomes a half-vampire by drinking a vampire's blood, but won't become a full vampire until they drink human blood (the desire to do so being increasingly difficult to resist over time). | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Alan Frog shows up to be one. | |
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Sexy Sax Man | |
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Sexy Sax Man: The famous scene of a shirtless, oiled-up Tim Cappello playing the sax at a concert. Fans even call him by the trope name! | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Essentially, the entire of The Thirst is revealed to be one. Peter trying to make Edgar his personal hitman | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Laddie is the cutest kid you've ever seen... until he vamps out. | |
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Undeath Is Cheap | |
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Undeath Is Cheap: This trope provides a way for Michael to get to do a cool vampire fight scene while still allowing him (along with Star and Laddie) to become human again at the end of the movie. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Shane has more or less the same personality as David did in the original film. What's more, Shane's actor is Angus Sutherland, half-brother of Kiefer Sutherland, who played David. | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different | |
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Our Werewolves Are Different: See the entry for Sequel Hook. | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog: Nanook can sense something is wrong with Michael, and whenever David and his vampire gang show up outside the Emersons' house on their loud motorcycles, he always gets up and barks. | |
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