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If it had any other title, Lost Boys 2: The Tribe wouldn't provoke any outrage. But if it had any other title, would anybody give it a second glance? I harbored a ray of hope, but it doesn't take very long to realize that Lost Boys 2: The Tribe was always destined for the direct to video garbage heap.

The 1987 original, photographed by the superbly talented Michael Chapman, was super stylish and jammed with juicy performances, cynical wisecracks, and post-modern tweaks to cinematic vampire legends. The best idea was placing fanged lords of the night in a sun-soaked California coastal town populated by aging hippies and freaks, not to mention a boardwalk, rollercoaster, and great, crashing surf.

As a budget sequel, LB2 has to make do with less attractive, less flattering video imagery and the rockier Canadian coastline standing in for "Santa Carla" * (actually, Santa Cruz, California). The script by Hans Rodionoff makes some half-hearted attempts to tie in the original (antlers and motorcycles, anyone?), but is bereft of any new twists of its own. Director P. J. Pesce makes certain to include the obligatory amount of gore required to justify the so-called "uncut" version, with notable attention to ripped throats and spilled intestines, along with bared body parts displayed by lovelies such as Moneca Delain. LB2 has precisely two good moments -- one in the opening scene, provided by Tom Savini -- stranded within 94 minutes of running time.

Last June, we shared some scary news by way of Moviehole -- the Coreys were going to get their own television show. That news became a reality, with the upcoming: The Coreys: Return of the Lost Boys, where slacker Corey Haim comes to live with his reformed friend, Corey Feldman. My, how times have changed! Now the website has more lip-curling news for us -- the half desperately hoped for and half desperately loathed sequel to The Lost Boys, is one step closer to reality.

In January, Scott Weinberg shared the all-too-scary news that the flick was getting a direct-to-DVD sequel with vamps on surfboards. There's no mention of surfing in the latest bit, but I know better than to be hopeful about this omission. The Lost Boys: The Tribe now has a director in P.J. Pesce, the guy who helmed From Dusk Till Dawn 3. Excited yet? No? Me neither. According to Shock Till You Drop, he'll be teamed with a script from The Hollow scribe Hans Rodionoff. I'm sorry, but it's happening, folks, with production to begin next month in Vancouver. And what's worse than a potentially terrible sequel from a beloved hit? A direct-to-DVD sequel that puts bloodsuckers on surfboards. Moviehole is also saying that while Feldman was originally part of the cast, it is "not on the cards anymore." So, all-new cast, and all-new crappiness. Sure, I'm pretty negative about this whole thing, but that's because there was only one way for this to possibly work -- get the old cast back, up the camp and make it a movie for the fans, not a cast-off sequel that gives no respect to the original.