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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.

Eminently rewatchable, a near-perfect slice of California cool versus East Coast paranoia, dancing on the edge of the truly ridiculous, The Lost Boys neatly captured the zeitgeist in 1987. Pitting a gang of ultra-hip young thrill-seeking vampires against a town that epitomized Middle American values was a master stroke. As Scott Weinberg commented more than a year ago, fans have been clamoring for a sequel ever since. Scott reported that a sequel was finally in the works, but that it would be direct to video, filmed in sunny San Diego, and revolve around Surfer Vampires.

Monika Bartyzel told us that Autumn Reeser (my favorite cute, insecure wisecracker from The OC) had been added to the cast as "a girl who moves with her brother to Trinidad, California and is seduced by the leader of the vamp surfers." Erik Davis broke our hearts with the news that Corey Haim would not be appearing in the film * (see update below), though Corey Feldman is still intact (phew!) and the production had moved to Vancouver.

To whet your appetite further, ShockTillYouDrop has an exclusive look at a new fang-tabulous still from The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. You can check it out in all its full-blooded splendor at their site, where you can also see who's underneath the bloody vampire. Shock also lists Tad Hilgenbrink (American Pie Presents Band Camp) and Angus Sutherland as additional cast members. P.J. Pesce directs. Look for it to hit DVD shelves this July.

UPDATE: As our faithful commenters kindly pointed out, Corey Haim will indeed be making an appearance, as reported by someone at some movie site I really should read once in a while. Thank you, readers!

Last time we told you about Lost Boys 2, Corey Haim was bent over, arms wrapped around Corey Feldman, crying like a guy who just realized his various drug addictions had caused his career to go into the toilet. The scene was part of the new "reality" show The Two Coreys, and it began when Feldman told Haim they were making a direct-to-DVD Lost Boys sequel without, well, the two Coreys. Feldman insisted that he had been asked to make a cameo, but wasn't going to if Haim wasn't invited to join in on the fun too. Now, however, it appears a lot has changed. ShockTillYouDrop is reporting (via an anonymous source) that not only are Feldman and Haim returning for the sequel, but fellow Frog brother Jamison Newlander (who also appeared on the "reality" show in the same episode) will join them.

And just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, the horror site also claims Keifer Sutherland's half-brother, Angus Sutherland, has been cast as the film's vampire villain. (For those not familiar with the original, Kiefer himself played villain.) His half-brother. Angus. I love it! Tad Hilgenbrink and Autumn Reeser have been cast in the lead roles, while P.J. Pesce (From Dusk Till Dawn 3) will direct. Production is set to begin a week from tomorrow. Now I'm not one to anticipate direct-to-DVD sequels, but this one has the potential of being so damn bad, I'm almost dying to see it. If anything, it should be fascinating to watch Feldman, Haim and Newlander together again, on the small screen, for the first time in 20 years. Hopefully some movie theater out there will host a screening of the sequel, because for my money, I want to witness this atrocity on the big screen first.