The vampires of The Lost Boys were supposed to be nearer in age to Corey Haim and Corey Feldman’s characters
Joel Schumacher’s movie, The Lost Boys, stands out not simply because it is bought a killer soundtrack, punk rock vamps, and the sweatiest saxophone participant in cinema historical past. It is also a movie that is not a lot about one younger man’s descent into vampirism, a lot because it’s about his little brother and his vampire-hunting buddies attempting to save him. It is an sudden bait-and-switch, one that continues to be charming due to the chemistry between Corey Haim’s Sam and the “Frog Brothers,” performed by Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander. The undeniable fact that Sam and the les frères Frog are a lot youthful than Jason Patric’s Michael and Kiefer Sutherland’s David makes their conflict on the finish of the movie that rather more entertaining to watch.
However because it seems, the age hole between the characters in The Lost Boys wasn’t the screenwriter’s unique intention. At The Lost Boys reunion panel at For The Love of Horror 2023, Kiefer Sutherland revealed, “All of [the vampire] characters were written originally a lot, a lot youthful. They were to be performed by 11, 12, 13-year-olds, and [director] Joel [Schumacher] modified that.”
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Growing older up the vampire characters within the movie shifts the story’s themes. Sam’s grappling along with his outdated brother Michael’s newfound monstrosity can be learn as a meditation on the horror of rising up. Talking for myself no less than, whenever you’re a tween, older individuals normally can be terrifying, since you lack a social framework wherein to perceive them. I had no thought why youngsters were so loud and were at all times working round (and actually, grownup me nonetheless would not actually perceive both). In Sam’s case, he is by no means identified a time with out his older brother round, and it makes Michael’s departure from each the household dwelling and his humanity a deeply unsettling expertise for Sam.
It is price noting that Sutherland made these remarks within the context of a possible Lost Boys remake. Sutherland was open to the thought of somebody remaking the movie, and stated that remaking it with the unique ages of the characters would be an fascinating tackle the story.
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