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Mania gets into bed with 'The Lost Boys: The Tribe'

Last Tuesday, Warner Home Video released 'Lost Boys: The Tribe' on DVD. The movie is a direct-to-DVD follow up to the much loved vampire movie of the 1980s which make Keifer Sutherland and instant success and launched The Coreys (Mr. Feldman and Mr. Haim) into the public consciousness. The new film is a quirky sequel featuring children of characters from the first film, as well as actor Angus Sutherland (Keifer's younger brother) and the return of Feldman as Edgar Frog.

Mania had a chance to sit down and talk with the Feldman and Sutherland, along with lead actors Tad Hilgenbrink and Autumn Reeser, and the film's director P.J. Pesce.

In what proved to be a strange group interview, we were ushered into the bedroom half of a suite at the Omni Hotel in San Diego. Pesce, Reeser and Sutherland perched on the foot of the bed, opposite of your reporter who sat in a chair. Hilgenbrink also sat in a chair nearby.

Feldman (decked out in the studded rock-star garb that he favors) lay across the bed such that I'd have to crane my neck over his cast mates to make eye contact and talk to him.

I present the transcript of our conversation unedited. Autmn comments as the players settling into their places on the bed...

AUTUMN REESER: We're a very close cast.

ROB WORLEY (Mania): I see that. I'm Rob Worley from Comics2Film at Mania.com

ALL: Hey...Hi Rob

[I have to lean in my chair to see Corey, who hangs his head over the side of the bed to respond]

MANIA: Hi, Corey.

COREY FELDMAN: I'm just chillin' back here.

MANIA: So, how is it to follow up 'Lost Boys', one of the most beloved cult movies of all time?

P.J. PESCE: Scary.

[Laughs from the entire cast]

It is scary because, like you said, it's one of the most beloved films of all time. This is a group of fans that are – uh...

AUTUMN: ...rabid!

PJ: Yeah, rabid is a good way of putting it. So essentially – you know, a lot of them even wrote their own scripts, which have been floating around the Internet. We didn't film those scripts.

They're going to be pissed off at us!

Essentially we went into it knowing that some people were going to hate it but hopefully other people would love it.

MANIA: Corey, how does it feel to get back into the Frog Brother outfit.

COREY: I'm not wearing it today, actually.

[laughs from the room]

MANIA: No, no! I meant for the movie. I can see that.

COREY: I couldn't see Edgar wearing anything like this.

No. It was cool, you know? It was a lot of fun. It was exciting. It's something I've always, kind of, fantasized about; what would I do if I wanted to try to be Edgar Frog again? Could I be that guy again? Bring him back. I think that all-in-all it was a pretty successful venture. I'm pleased with it.

I think I could have used a little more screen time, you know?

[Laughs]

MANIA: What's the story there? Why didn't Corey have more screen time?

COREY: Don't print that. People are going to take that seriously.

[Laughs]

MANIA: What about a sequel?

PJ: This is a sequel! Yet another?

MANIA: Part 3! Could there be?

PJ: Could be. Let's see how the audience reacts to this first.

COREY: Let's not put the cart before the horse. I hope people just enjoy this film.

PJ: Have you seen the movie?

MANIA: I have not seen it.

PJ: Tonight, you'll see, definitely...the door is open.

MANIA: Any horror stories from the filming? Anything particularly difficult?

COREY: I broke my hand!

MANIA: Did you really?

COREY: Yeah.

AUTUMN: You did?

COREY: Yeah.

AUTUMN: Oh my god!

COREY: Don't you remember that?

AUTUMN: No.

COREY: I was in a cast for like six months.

AUTUMN: Oh my god!

PJ: We were the opposite of [most shoots], worrying about the sun going down. We worried about the sun coming up. That would be the end of our day...or night. So we were like vampires.

On this particular night we had so much more work to do than we should have. Corey had to come running up this little hill and it started to rain...it was slippery.

COREY: It wasn't little. We were on the side of a cliff!

[laughs]

PJ: I'm over there looking through the monitor and I go, "and action," and Corey comes running up like this. You see him come right up and he goes, "Hey! Who ordered the -- "

SHOOM! [gestures]

And he disappears.

I'm like, "you okay?"

COREY: It was basically these big, giant rocks and slippery slopes and it starts raining at like five o'clock in the morning in Vancouver and I've got these no-grip boots on. So I'm doing this scene back-and-forth-and-back-and-forth and he's like, [claps hands] "Come on! Faster! Faster! Come on Corey!"

And I come running up and – YAAHHH – CRASH – so it was fun.

I ended up in a cast for the next six months, tore two ligaments in my thumb.

PJ: But he did finish the night.

COREY: I did finish the night. I refused to go to the hospital because, like Tom Cruise, I do my own stunts --

PJ: Even when there's not stunts called for.

COREY: Yeah.

[Laughs]

MANIA: What about anybody else? Any difficult things about the shoot? Autumn, did you find it particularly difficult?

AUTUMN: Yes. The blood. The fake blood is extremely disgusting. It's like maple syrup and I found out during the course of this movie that I do not enjoy being dirty. I really don't!

MANIA: So you have a lot of blood on you during the show?

AUTUMN: Yes, I really do.

PJ: Just, literally soaked in it.

AUTUMN: Like, 'Carrie' style. Like covered in it and you would have to sit in it all night, waiting for the next shot and it was freezing. All the guys are fine because they're in like jeans and jackets. I'm in a mini-skirt. It was very uncomfortable.

COREY: But the hot part was when she would try to lick it off herself.

AUTUMN: It was very tasty.

MANIA: Alright, that's not too bad. What about you, Tad? Any horror stories from the shoot?

TAD HILGENBRINK: No. Everything was fuckin' peaches.

[Laughs]

TAD: No. The hardest part was the time frame of the shots. We were shooting a lot faster than we should have, I think. I don't think you'll notice it in the final quality of the movie but the schedule was really hard.

MANIA: The first movie had a real comedic tone at times. I assume this one does too and you have a very comedic background. How did that play into it?

TAD: I didn't really know very much about the original 'Lost Boys' so going into it, like learning about the original I think the thing you want to take away from it is the tone of it. That comedic tone, PJ and I talked, bringing it, especially in the first act there's a lot of like that, sort of dark lightness.

It's definitely in there. We tried to put it in as much as we could. Then of course it goes darker as the movie goes on.

MANIA: Angus, how was it for you coming into this role that made your brother famous?

ANGUS SUTHERLAND: Intimidating, a little, yeah, I'd say.

MANIA: Did he have any advice for you? Did you consult with him at all?

ANGUS: No, because there's really nothing he could say. I had to go in and do what I had to do. I had to not try to recreate what he did, because if I tried that I would have failed. I tried to create my own character.

COREY: I think Angus does a great job of being ominous and looming in the film.

PJ: But even more importantly of being charming and subtly seductive.

COREY: Yeah, he creates a presence. Kind of what your brother did but in his own way.

[At this point the publicist enters the room]

PUBLICIST: Only one more question please...

MANIA: Edgar is very informed by comic books and I'm the Comics2Film guy so I have to ask you a comic-related question. What comics does Edgar read to get his vampire hunting chops?

COREY: Well...

PJ: There's always 'Vampires Everywhere'..

COREY: In Edgar's home it's 'Vampires Everywhere'...and...what's the other one? 'Blood...'

PJ: I don't know.

[awkward pause]

COREY: ...yeah...I'm sorry.

[laughs]

I'm going to ball up into the corner now.

MANIA: What about the new 'Lost Boys' comic from Wildstorm?

COREY: The 'Lost Boys' comic is more an offshoot of his experiences. It's his diary.

PJ: It kind of connects the first movie to the second one.

COREY: I think its a great vehicle for people who want to catch up on the back story. You never know. Maybe like 'Star Wars' one day they'll make the prequels of what happened between the first and second movie. If they ever did that they've got the story drawn out for them already.

I really, in particular, like the issue where they talk about politics and vampires being politicians. It makes a lot of sense, especially with the way our government is.

PUBLICIST: OK, thank you everyone.

And with that, our time with the Lost Boys Tribe was ended. You can see a blood-soaked Autumn Reeser and Corey's cliff stunt, not to mention some fine motorcycle-towing-skateboard work by Angus and Tad in 'The Lost Boys: The Tribe', available now on DVD.