comic books movies

File under “They’re doing … what?!?!”

Hollywood is finally listening to the viewing audience and giving us exactly what everyone has been clamoring for.  So guess what deserving movie is getting a direct to DVD sequel this year?  Am I thinking of … Batman … Hulk … Indiana Jones … or X-Files?  Need a minute to think it over?

Okay, what was your answer?

That’s right!  You guessed it!  They are releasing a sequel to the “Lost Boys“!  Great guess!  … oh … that’s not what you were thinking of?  Color me surprised.

A sequel to “Lost Boys“, called “Lost Boys: The Tribe“?  WTF, mate?!?!?

Lost BoysMan, back in 1987 “Lost Boys” was awesome!  Vampires, teenagers, motorcycles, comic books, hot girls, parties, alcohol, guys with long hair and earrings… it had pretty much everything a pre-teen/early-teen could ask for back in the 80’s.  I even had the movie poster hanging on my bedroom wall back then.  But nowadays?  Hasn’t the Buffy / Angel / Anita Blake vampire-hunter fad sort of run it’s course?

If you remember the film, there were two brothers who ran the local comic book shop that also helped Corey Haim fight the vampires.  These characters were called the Frog brothers, played by Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander.  Apparently someone recently got it in their head that these two characters were deserving of their own film.  The plot of the sequel revolves around two siblings that are new to town that accidentally get caught up with the local vampire gang.  In order to save one sibling, the other turns to the Frog brothers for help in killing a bunch of vampires.  Wow.  Just … wow.

Reign of FrogsAnd if this masterpiece (right up there with “Citizen Kane” I’m sure) isn’t enough for you, you can always pick up the DC/Wildstorm comic book mini-series in May called “The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs” that bridges the gap between the original film and the sequel.

So if you are brave enough to check this out, be sure to let me know how it is.

2 thoughts on “File under “They’re doing … what?!?!”

  1. Shag, you seem to have made an error, you said: “The plot of the sequel revolves around two siblings that are new to town that accidentally get caught up with the local vampire gang. In order to save one sibling, the other turns to the Frog brothers for help in killing a bunch of vampires.” wasn’t that the plot of The Lost Boys? I mean the original one from 1987…oh, so the plot for the new film is the same as the old film…um, wow, glad to see that the many cool new shiny thoughts and ideas of Hollywood are making it into movies…

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