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‘Lost Boys’ Frog Bros Return with New Toys in ‘The Thirst’
This October, the Frog Brothers reunite to kill a new batch of nasty bloodsuckers in the third entry of the franchise, Lost Boys: The Thirst. Bloody-Disgusting spoke exclusively with the Frog Brothers, Corey Feldman (Edgar) and Jamison Newlander (Alan), who tell us the newly re-teamed siblings have a whole new arsenal of vamp-killing toys.
“We have all kinds of new weapons, much better stunts, much better special effects,” says Feldman. “Edgar is armed with a plethora of new weaponry. We now have a specialty weapons designer by the name of Blake, who Edgar met many years ago. Blake was working in D.C. with the political vampires that we came across in the comics [which is] why this really fits in with Comic-Con. It ties in really well with the comic book series. So if you’re a fan of those, there are a lot of nods and patronage to the comic series. Blake became a mercenary and he basically started designing all these weaponry to kill vampires, starting with one of the things I’m most proud of, my semi-automatic water grenade launcher. In the last movie I had the holy water grenade launcher, which was a cannon. Now we’ve upped the ante and it’s semi-automatic. It’s no longer water balloons, but water resin grenades, so these are pretty intense.”
“We have all kinds of great new stakes,” says Feldman. “Also going back to the comics, we’re swashbucklers. We have kitanas that we use, so there’s a lot of sword fighting.”
“That was fun as hell to do, of course,” adds Newlander. “We did a little weapon training. I think we do really well in it actually. We did a lot of our own stuff with the new weapons.
And now that the Frogs are armed to the teeth, they have some fun bloodying up the bloodsuckers. “In terms of gore, when you first see me, because I’m this conflicted vampire, my choice of profession gets pretty gory,” says Newlander. “It has an allusion to what grandpa was doing in the first movie. I don’t want to give it away, but it gets pretty gory.”
“I wouldn’t say that this is as scary of a film,” says Feldman. “But there is a lot of action. We have more interesting ways of destroying the vampires. From a special effects perspective, we have much grander killings.”
LOST BOYS: THE THIRST will release on Blu-ray and DVD this October.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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