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‘Lost Boys: The Tribe’ Hottie Gets Covered in Blood!
This afternoon SpookyDan jumped on a call with Autumn Reeser, the beautiful star of Warner Premiere’s Lost Boys: The Tribe, which will have its world premire at the San Diego Comic Con this month before arriving on DVD and Blu-ray July 29th. Inside you can read Spooky’s interview where she talks about getting the part… and ending up looking like CARRIE!
This afternoon I spoke with actress Autumn Reeser about her role in Warner Premiere’s upcoming film, LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE, the highly anticipated sequel that brings the two Coreys back to the genre. Reiser talked a bit about getting the part, along with what we can expect from the film directed by P.J Pesce.
SpookyDan: Tell me what it was like to get the call when they told you, YOU had the part!
Autumn Reeser: I had never seen the original Lost Boys when the part was offered, but my fiancé had always been obsessed with it, so it was a totally new experience for me to watch it, it was nice to see what all the excitement was about, I really enjoyed it.
SD: No way, how do you go your whole life without seeing The Lost Boys?
AR: There is a lot of pop culture that I was never aware of, it weirds a lot of people out. I will be with friends listening to the radio and a Metallica song will come on, they will be reminiscing about jr. high…And I am like …is this a new song? Its like I grew up on a different planet, I was a musical theater geek, so I was just into that world more than anything else.
SD: Because its surfing vampires, my friends and I are going to have a pool party to watch it.
AR: That’s great! A pool party is a great setting,( maybe I should do that.) I think that is why Warner Bros decided to release it directly to DVD, because that’s how people want to see it, in a group setting with friends, a few beers, and having fun, like the old days. You should have vampire themed food at your party!
SD: With this movie comes a strange baggage, we are all nervous…is it going to be good?
AR: Everyone really wants it to be good. When you take on something like this you know before hand that there will be people that are going to just not like it no matter what. They never wanted a sequel in the first place, because nothing can ever live up to the original. I think I would feel that way if someone was to do a remake of The Princess Bride, or a sequel, I think I would be mad. I just hope that everyone enjoys what we did. As an actor, I really wanted to do a vampire movie, and I really wanted to be part of a cult classic.
SD: As a horror fan, I want blood guts and nudity, does this deliver the goods?
AR: All three! Blood guts and nudity are in this movie, its just been updated for a modern audience.
SD: Can you tell us about a particularly nasty kill?
AR: I don’t know what I am allowed to say about the specific kills, but I can tell you that for five days of shooting I was covered in blood! Go to your fridge, open it up, and take a bottle of maple syrup, and just dump it onto your head…that’s what it was like for days. It was all night shoots so it was cold and sticky, your clothes stick to you, and even your eyelashes will stick to your eye! Your eyelids stick open. We used a lot of fake blood in this… I looked like CARRIE.
SD: I like Corey Feldman as much as anyone else does, but everything I read is Corey Corey Corey, is this a Lost Boys movie or the Corey Feldman show?
AR: Oh no, Corey has been great doing a lot of press about it and people want to hear about it, because he is the one who was there for the first one. The film is similar to the way the first one is structured. It’s really similar. I think you will be happy, its great to hear that people are enthusiastic about it. I definatly screamed and covered my eyes few times during an early screening, I really hope you enjoy it.
LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE arrives on DVD and Blu-ray July 29th from Warner Premiere.
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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