[MOVIE SUMMARY] "Lost Boys 2: The Tribe" (2008)
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2008
LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE
Cast
Chris Emerson ............. Tad Hilgenbrink
Nicole Emerson .............. Autumn Reeser
Aunt Jillian ............... Gabrielle Rose
Edgar Frog .................. Corey Feldman
ShanePowers .............. Angus Sutherland
Lisa Thompson ............... Moneca Delain
Evan ........................ Greyston Holt
Sheriff McGraw ......... Daryl Shuttleworth
Jon ........................... Kyle Cassie
Erik .......................... Shaun Sipos
Kyle .......................... Shaun Sipos
Sam Emerson .................... Corey Haim
Comments
"Lost Boys 2" is the sequel to "Lost Boys" (1987). Like the time
span between the two movies (21 years), a similar number of years are
spanned between the two movies. Michael Emerson (from the first
movie) has grown up, married, and gotten himself killed, leaving
behind his two grown children, Chris and Nicole. (On the Tribe
website, however, Chris and Nicole are named as cousins of Michael
and Sam.) Sam Emerson doesn't show up until the final scene. Edgar
Frog is still around, also grown up, but his vampire-fighting brother
Alan is not.
Summary
Chris Emerson and his sister Nicole, children of Michael Emerson
(from the first "Lost Boys" movie) have moved to the surfside town of
Luna Bay, California following the death of their parents. They rent
a house from their Aunt Jillian, and Chris sets out to find a job as
a surfboard shaper. The only surfboard shaper in town is Edgar Frog,
so Chris leaves his name and address on Edgar's screen door. Later,
as he's watching the sun set over the ocean, he is approached by
Shane Powers, who Chris recognizes as "the greatest surfer in the
world," but who just up and disappeared. Shane invites Chris to a
surfer party. At first, Chris doesn't want to go, but Nicole talks
him into it. Neither Chris nor Nicole know that Shane is a vampire.
At the party, while Chris is in the shower with Lisa, Nicole
links up with Shane. Shane tricks her into drinking some of his blood
from his hipflask and then takes her for a motorcycle ride. By the
time they get back, Chris is hopping mad, punches Shane in the mouth,
and tells him to stay away from his sister. On the way home, as Chris
reads the riot act to Nicole, she suddenly starts feeling sick. He
helps her into the house, telling her that she's probably just drunk.
Nicole grabs him by the throat, hoists him up into the air, and says,
"I'm not drunk." Suddenly, she is hit on the back of the head, drops
Chris, and falls to the floor. Edgar Frog introduces himself as
"surfboard shaper and vampire hunter." Chris takes a swing at Edgar,
and when Edgar tells him that his sister is one of the undead, Chris
kicks him out of the house.
Just after kicking out Edgar, Chris hears a knock on the door.
Thinking Edgar has returned, Chris opens the door angrily and sees
Lisa standing there. She takes off her clothes and asks him to invite
her in so that they can finish what they started in the shower. Once
inside, she jumps all over him, so much that he fights her off,
causing her to accidentally become impaled on a rack of antlers
hanging on the wall. When her body suddenly turns to stone and
explodes into pieces, Chris can see that she definitely was not
human, so the next morning he pays Edgar a visit. Edgar explains that
Nicole is still just a "half vampire" and won't gain full status
until she makes her first kill. After downing a glass of "Frog juice"
(garlic, holy water, and a raw egg), Edgar also tells Chris that the
only way to save Nicole's mortal soul is by killing the head vampire
before Nicole gets a chance to feed.
That evening, Nicole wakes up hungry, but not for food. She
phones Evan, a guy she met on her first day in Luna Bay, and invites
him over. When he arrives, she immediately takes off her blouse and
begins to loosen his clothes. Just as she's about to bite into his
neck, Chris comes home and puts a stop to it. He kicks Evan out, but
Evan gets attacked by vampires anyway while on his way home. Edgar
and Chris decide that the best chance they have of destroying Shane
is by finding the vampires' nest. In order to do that, Chris offers
to become one of them so that he can be taken into the nest; he also
promises to betray them to Edgar in the end.
Meanwhile, Nicole has awakened and been summoned by Shane to
meet him at the nest. Chris reports Nicole as a missing person, but
Sheriff McGraw doesn't seem concerned and shows him the large number
of missing person reports, one of which includes Evan, hanging on the
wall. When Chris exits the sheriff's station, he is met by vampire
Jon, who offers to take him to Nicole at their nest. Nicole has
chosen to be with Shane, who explains to Chris that becoming a
vampire means that you will never grow old, never die, and never know
fear again. Later, when the Tribe storms the Sheriff's station and
leads the cops on a wild goose chase, Chris joins in with them, but
when they return to their nest, they refuse to allow Chris to enter.
The following night, Chris joins the Tribe, who are entertaining
some girls around a campfire. Along the way, Shane passes around his
hipflask, and Chris takes a long drink from it, starting himself on
the way to turning into a vampire. Shane and Nicole decide to leave
the party, but Chris is ordered to stay behind. Suddenly, the
remaining vampires leap on the girls and begin drinking their blood.
Chris pretends to go after one of the girls, but he actually tells
her to run. Unfortunately, the vampires see what he's doing and start
beating up Chris. Chris stakes Jon with a tree branch, but Erik and
Kyle move in for the kill. Suddenly Edgar arrives armed with wooden
stakes, and Eric and Kyle run off.
Chris and Edgar set out to rescue Nicole and kill Shane. While
Chris drives to the nest, Edgar introduces him to his vampire hunting
arsenal -- wooden stakes, metal stakes, resin stakes (light and easy
to handle), an air-propelled rocket grenade launcher for holy water
balloons, and a garlic bola. While Chris and Edgar search the
subterranean bowels of the nest, first impaling Erik with a boring
drill and then blasting off Kyle's head with the holy water balloon
launcher, Nicole is being led by Shane to a coffin where a victim is
being held for her first kill. Shane opens the coffin, and Nicole
sees Evan lying there. She tells Shane that she can't do it.
Chris makes it to the vampires' great room where he is joined by
Shane. Chris leaps at Shane, and the two of them have at each other.
Nicole walks in and tells Shane not to hurt her brother. When Shane
doesn't stop, Nicole runs a stake through his chest. Shane tries to
pull Nicole onto stake with him, but Chris decapititates Shane first.
As Shane's body bursts into flames, Edgar arrives. "Build a man a
fire and he's warm for the day," Edgar says, "but start a fire in a
man and he's warm for the rest of his life." He then tells the
Emersons that they'll be getting a bill for his services. Edgar and
Evan leave together and Chris and Nicole, now cured of their
vampirism, go home where they are confronted by their Aunt Jillian
who accuses them of using drugs.
In a final scene after the credits start to roll, Edgar meets up
with Sam Emerson, who is now a vampire. Sam says that he's come for
Edgar, and Edgar says that he won't show him any mercy. The two then
charge each other, and the credits resume.