Lost Boys: The Tribe

LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE

A direct-to-video sequel that was released in 2008, Lost Boys: The Tribe follows a former pro-surfer named Chris Emerson who moves with his sister Nicole to a community called Luna Bay near the ocean.  There the siblings cross paths with another ex-surfer named Shane who dropped off the grid awhile back (turns out he’s the head of a vampire pack).  Shane tricks Nicole into drinking his blood from a flask, thereby turning her into a half-vampire (per the lore established in the first film, she won’t fully turn until she makes her first kill).  Chris stumbles upon intrepid vampire hunter Edgar Frog, and together they set out to locate the vampire nest and kill Shane before Nicole becomes a full-blown member of the pack.

A flawed but watchable movie, Lost Boys: The Tribe features one plot point that left me scratching my head.  After Chris learns where the vampire nest is, he goes home and sleeps the day away until the sun goes down.  Wouldn’t he want to storm the headquarters of the bloodsuckers during the day when they are sleeping and vulnerable?  Instead he moves forward with an odd plan to infiltrate the pack and become a half-vampire himself.  The film includes one brutal scene in which most of the vampires (minus Shane) feed on some girls at a beach, and the gore quotient here is quite high.  Neither as awful as I’d been expecting based on comments at the Internet Movie Database nor as entertaining as I had hoped, this sequel may be of interest to fans of the first film.  It ain’t a bad little vampire flick, but nor is it a masterpiece.