Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)

The orphan and former surfer Chris Emerson and his sister Nicole Emerson move to Luna Bay expecting to initiate a new life without housing expenses with their Aunt Jillian, but she charges ... See full summary »

Director:

P.J. Pesce

Writers:

Jan Fischer (characters) (as Janice Fischer), James Jeremias (characters)

Stars:

Tad Hilgenbrink, Angus Sutherland, Autumn Reeser

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tad Hilgenbrink	...	Chris (as Tad Hilgenbrinck)
Angus Sutherland	...	Shane
Autumn Reeser	...	Nicole
Gabrielle Rose	...	Aunt Jillian
Corey Feldman	...	Edgar Frog
Shaun Sipos	...	Kyle
Merwin Mondesir	...	Erik
Kyle Cassie	...	Jon
Moneca Delain	...	Lisa
Greyston Holt	...	Evan
Tom Savini	...	David Van Etten
Daryl Shuttleworth	...	McGraw
Sarah Smyth	...	Hayden
P.J. Pesce	...	Italian Motorcyclist
Alexander Calvert	...	Grom

Storyline

The orphan and former surfer Chris Emerson and his sister Nicole Emerson move to Luna Bay expecting to initiate a new life without housing expenses with their Aunt Jillian, but she charges rent to the siblings for a wrecked house, and Chris seeks a job working as board shaper to raise money for the unforeseeable expenses. While in town, he meets his acquaintance and also former surfer Shane Powers that invites Chris for a surf parting at night. Then the siblings unsuccessfully seek out the board shaper and vampire hunter Edgar Frog in his trailer trying to find a job and Chris leaves a message for him. They go to Shane's party and Nicole stays with Shane and drinks booze offered by him. Later she becomes a half-vampire and Edgar advises that she drank vampire's blood and can only be saved if the head-vampire is killed. Chris and Edgar search the hiding place of Shane and his tribe to save Nicole.

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Plot Keywords:

lust | sex scene | vampire | vampire hunter | trailer | 

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Taglines:

Never grow old. Never die. Never know fear again.

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong vampire violence and gore, language, sexuality and some drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Warner bros [United States]

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 July 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lost Boys: The Tribe

Filming Locations:

Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$4,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Premiere,Thunder Road Pictures,Hollywood Media Bridge

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 94 min (uncut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Towards the beginning of the film, there is a shirtless guy playing the saxophone which is also an homage to the original film.

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Goofs

When Nicole leaves the house in her trance her hair is straight. When she gets to Shane her hair is crimped.

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Quotes

Chris: Dude, what are you drinking, man?
Edgar Frog: Frog juice. Garlic, holy water and raw eggs.

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Crazy Credits

After the first block of end credits there is a short additional scene.

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Connections

Followed by Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010)

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Soundtracks

In My Blood
(uncredited)
Performed by Starsailor
Written by Ben Byrne, James Stelfox, James Walsh, Barry Westhead

User Reviews

Soft-Core Porno spoof of the first movie.

Nobody expected this movie to be great, but it is truly awful. My advice would be to Skip it and go straight to The Thirst, this adds nothing to the plot or character development. It seem to mix up Sam Emerson's character with Alan frog, having vampires mention Edgar's brother a few times, then having a 20 second cameo in the end credits with Corey Haim.

The first low point, for me anyway, was the amount of swearing in the opening few minutes, it begins right after the Warner logo and is totally unneeded. The next big problem is the updated vampires, they aren't cool, not in the slightest, in an attempt to be "XTREAM" and "with it" these vampires stab each other and upload it to youtube. The creators obviously had no clue about the audience of this movie, maybe they didn't realise that the fans that saw the original are now Corey Felmans age. That's the beauty of the original it spans almost 3 generations, something the creators of this movie didn't know, thinking the audience would be comprised of self harmers and sex crazed 13 year olds.

The story itself plodded along slowly for the first 40 or 50 minutes, it's essentially an unenthusiastic remake of the original. It tried half heartedly to be a lost boys movie, It ended up copying many of the events from the first one. The script writer has taken most of the scenes from the original mixed them up and wrote some new lines of dialogue to glue them together. The "Magic" isn't there. It's missing a plot twist and some well needed lovable characters (maybe it's that lack of younger teens?). You also have Feldman over acting his heart out in an attempt to compensate for some of the other actors. It doesn't save the movie, but it is the highlight, in fact I cheered at the T.V when he appeared. Feldman's role is the same as in the first movie, right down to the dialogue, line for line in some places.

Many of the actors look bored, when being attacked by vampires most of the cast look like they're waiting for a bus. This brings me to another complaint, there is way too many over the top sex scenes crammed into this, I have no problems with sex scenes in movies, you expect it in horror movies, but when the two main cast members start having sex with everything on two legs, your movie is a porno. At the halfway point we are "treated" to a slow misplaced police chase scene, followed by the characters sleeping and a driving to the beach, nicely killing off any kind of momentum the movie had built up. There's a cool weapons talk in Edgar frogs van, where he explains all the vampire killing equipment, but this only leads to an end battle which fall flat on its face.

There is no plot twist or clever writing of any kind in this movie. I will not be sitting through it again, once is more than enough.