Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
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Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
The Lost Boys: The Timeless Appeal of Vampires
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What if we finally recasted The Lost Boys?
Join us as we cap off the Halloween season by reminiscing about our first encounters with the dark world of vampire films, and recast Cory's beloved undead bad boys film, 1987's "The Lost Boys". We delve into the evolution of vampire lore on screen, comparing classics like the original "Dracula" with modern interpretations, and share a good laugh critiquing user-generated and AI-generated rankings of top vampire movies.
We finally get back to recasting, as Cory imagines a modern remake of "The Lost Boys," envisioning a version helmed by Jordan Peele and starring a diverse cast, while Nick keeps a hint of nostalgia by putting together a Late 90s cast. We explore the rich dynamics of character portrayal in vampire stories, celebrating performances from George Clooney's suave role in "From Dusk Till Dawn" to Joel Schumacher's unique touch on "The Lost Boys." As we sprinkle in casting ideas for potential remakes, we savor the nostalgia and timeless appeal that vampire cinema brings to the screen.
The episode wraps up with a spirited discussion about the cultural impact of vampire-themed media, from the iconic "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to the cyclical popularity of the genre. We ponder setting future vampire stories in different eras, and entertain thoughts of a vampire resurgence with new projects. Whether you're a fan of the gothic and eerie or the nostalgic and comedic, this episode is a celebration of all things vampire that will leave you yearning for more.
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Hosts:
Cory Williams (@thelionfire)
Nick Growall (@nickgrowall)
Co-Hosts (Season 6):
Aly Dale (@alydale55)
Ash Hurry (@filmexplorationah)
Cass Elliott (@take5cass)
Terran Sherwood (@terransherwood)
Voice of the Time Machine:
Kristi Rothrock (@letzshake)
Editing by:
Nick Growall
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Welcome. Welcome to another episode of Quantum Recast, or whatever we're calling it now.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, Quantum Recast, we're still a podcast.
Speaker 1Hey, we're recasting this episode.
Speaker 2We are, we're correct, we're correct. We have all these little other things we do Dreamcast, yeah, minisoad, quantum, reaction. No, we're actually recasting.
Speaker 1Maybe not in the most traditional sense, but we are going to recast a movie, yes, a movie I said we'd never do, by the way, that's right. So this is kind of a big deal. But before we do that we are going to talk about because it's spooky season, that's right my favorite. It's already gone by too fast. I think too much happens in October.
Speaker 2It kind of does.
Speaker 1Football starts, basketball starts and enjoy Halloween. It's like tomorrow.
Speaker 2Also the passage of time and everything. It just kind of makes it impossible to like. Months are now like two weeks to us.
Speaker 1It starts and you're excited and then you're like wait Halloween's next week. I'm too busy being mad at Christmas half the month because it's just trying to tread back on my health.
Speaker 2Lowe's is already set up. Man, I went in there.
Speaker 1the other day, oh no, and you're just like get off.
Speaker 2Wait, I'm like I'm saying shh wait, wait, wait for it.
Speaker 1I want Halloween to fight back and go longer into November, Like we're, like nah.
Speaker 2Listen, we've got Day of the Dead Festival.
Speaker 1We just got to keep pushing, I know we just I know, Find me some more no-transcript January. Well, technically it does.
Speaker 2The Catholic tradition it leads into early January.
Speaker 1It can go all the way to February. It does. It can trounce into Groundhog's Day, I just care less.
Speaker 2Until Valentine's Day, we ain't got nothing to celebrate.
Speaker 1We can have Valentine's Day, we have.
Speaker 2Martin Luther King Jr's Day but that's it.
Speaker 1Well, no, we can't take his day. No, we can't take his day, but around it they can have St Valentine's Day. Yeah, they can have.
Speaker 2Valentine's Day Take that away.
Speaker 1But we're going to talk about vampire cinema. That's right. Yeah, because we want to do a horror movie-centric episode and we want to just talk about vampires.
Speaker 2Pretty much yeah.
Speaker 1So about this pretty straight on.
Speaker 2I think the first you didn't say until you were like 30, right, probably. Yeah, because your mom said you can't watch these.
Speaker 1That's the devil, bobby. You would put in a vampire movie and your mom would call you. Are you watching vampire movies?
Speaker 2No, no, you know I'm trying to even rack my brain to think about it. I will say the first movie I went to a theater to watch, first one is probably Twilight no no no, I've avoided those Van Helsing I went to watch that Technically has Dracula and the Brides in it, it does. Underworld One of the Underworld sequels Went to watch. That Couldn't tell you the plot other than a lot of talk of like. Oh then the ancient text was true, or the legend is confirmed, and Kate Beckinsale being a babe.
Speaker 1Is it the third one maybe, where they go back and they tell the history of the war between they don't say werewolves in those movies? Rizalikens, Rizalikens, yeah.
Speaker 2It might have been that one Trying to think About 2005, 2006, maybe. What are the underworld movies, Corey? I need a list of them real quick here.
Speaker 1I don't even know. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 2Okay, you got Underworld Evolution in 06, so that's probably the one I saw. Yeah, that's probably the one I saw, for sure. But the one that really sealed it in for me a bit, and I will say I did watch Queen of the Damned before that. So there's a lot of hit and miss going on there, but 30 Days of Night Corey might have been the first one I sat down and went. Oh, that was actually pretty good. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2The rest of them it was like or like a group of friends went to watch it, but that was the first one I went oh, okay, there's more to this.
Speaker 1Your favorite movies are really in sync with your musical taste. It's like you're into nu metal, yeah, I was into nu metal.
Speaker 2Okay, just because I like Linkin Park, doesn't don't put me in that category of like hey, you want some death tones, man. You want some puddle of mud over here, you're just like into Evanescence and the Underworld movies. That's apparently all. I listened to that and Creed allegedly no.
Speaker 1I think I've seen all those. I've definitely seen 30 Days of Night. 30 Days of Night's a good movie.
Speaker 2It's pretty solid, it goes really hard, it does yeah.
Speaker 1It's based off a great comic book by Ben Templesmith, nice. I like to plug him.
Speaker 2I'm a fan of his work but, like most artists, I think he got screwed over and like they just took it and made a bunch of sequel comic books without him. That's stupid. So it seemed like it was just a good one and done story. But yeah, I mean good. But for me it's like, yeah, I've seen, they've been on TV or something and I watch them or something. But there's always been like vampire movies and I've always been able to watch them on some degree. But it really wasn't until obviously later on that I got to enjoy them.
Speaker 1I moved into our house and my friends were like here you get a vampire movie. You get a vampire movie. Um no, I not. You bring in a van helsing. I need to re-watch it. I bet it's one of those movies we appreciate.
Speaker 2Now it's and it's just craziness it's still very cheesy, like over the top I did I watched it on whim, like it must have been like a snow day or something, but I I did.
Speaker 1I was like you thought it was gonna be like a batman robin situation.
Speaker 2I appreciate this now. It kind of, but it's still like you're still kind of like, ah, still kind of cheesy, Still get really appreciate it.
Speaker 1Still still not great. It's still Hugh Jackman with long hair and a dumb hat.
Speaker 2So when you watch it as a teenager and it's one of the few opportunities you've had to really dive into like vampire lore or any kind of like horror thing, and they were trying to do the whole like update.
Speaker 1It was.
Speaker 2It's really yeah, they were trying to, so hollywood's dropped the ball twice on the dark universe, yeah, yeah, twice now, man, but nailed it in the 30s. But yeah, it's like. For me it was almost like a proper like, because I was aware of like big oligosis, dracula and all frankenstein and all those, but you never. I never sat down to watch them. But you get to watch like universal, try to revamp them a bit, and you're like, okay, I kind of see the nods to like the past and stuff, like the whole openings in black and white surely every single universal monster is public domain I don't know if they are yet or not.
Speaker 2Dracula's gotta be that book's over 100 years old. I mean the characters I believe themselves could be, but I don't know if like the quote-unquote universal monster no, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1I'm talking about the characters, like I'm talking about dracula, frankenstein's monster, the mummy, yeah, so like so.
Speaker 2For example, like frankenstein, universal owns the copyright to the look of the frankenstein monster square head.
Speaker 1Yeah, but the story is public domain.
Speaker 2So that means for for you guys listening like that means you can make a more book accurate.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, monster, or?
Speaker 2you can go make nosferatu I guess.
Speaker 1But nosferatu got sued eight ways from sunday. They did yeah because they were like we're gonna make a better vampire movie.
Speaker 2It's like we want to make Dracula, you can't. Okay, we'll just make one that's kind of adjacent to it.
Speaker 1We're German, screw you, make whatever we want so but like it's interesting, because it's like those things have got to be public domain and it's weird that we keep dropping the ball on trying to make a when you know what they're doing.
Speaker 2Wrong, nick, what are they doing wrong?
Speaker 1They're not bringing some comedic duo into them to be chased around?
Speaker 2Laurel and Hardy yeah.
Speaker 1If we had like Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill running from the mummy.
Speaker 2It would work In between the serious movies Exactly. We would be in, We'd be fine. Well, that's what the Hotel Transylvania movies are now. Yeah okay. It's, it's not the same, it's, it's not quite, it's not quite. Well, cory, what is I mean?
Speaker 1I know the answer do this when david spade and chris farley were making movies just running from dracula, third entry in in their in their spiritual sequels. Oh man, what could have been so?
Speaker 2um, what did you ask me a question I was about to, but I'm going to confirm that, yes, bram stoker's dracula, the right. The original story is in public domain yeah, it's got to be be.
Speaker 1So it's clear, you can go make your Dracula movie Stoker family can't sue us now. That's why Eggers is like I'm making Nosferatu, come at me.
Speaker 2Which looks pretty good.
Speaker 1And even like who was it that made the named Fritz? The guy that made Megalopolis?
Speaker 2is the same guy, right, he made.
Speaker 1Nosferatu. Guess what that's over a hundred years old buddy we did it.
Speaker 2We outlived them, cory. That's all it took.
Speaker 1That's all we got to do so um but yeah, my question for you, which I already knew the answer your favorite vampire movie which is also the first vampire movie I ever saw, nick okay, which I saw it in pieces, um. So my sister is seven years older than me yeah so we were never children at the same time.
Speaker 1We were never in the same like era of being a child at the same time got it so when I'm a right, she would have her friends come over and do sleepovers and they would watch horror movies, because that's what you did in the 90s.
Speaker 2You went to a friend's house. You didn't stream it together on the internet. We?
Speaker 1didn't have Blockbuster and Durant until I was like in high school we had like I'm so sorry, what did you have Free business, also rented videos. Okay, yeah, like your grocery store also rented movies, or your tanning salon also. Yeah, yeah, the tanning salon.
Speaker 2We had that. We had a Sub sandwiches.
Speaker 1The grocery store had a rental space.
Speaker 2So we did get Blockbuster at Arbor pretty early in the 90s. That was a staple.
Speaker 1I was like it was like 2000s by the time. We got one man. We were there at the end, so they would rent movies and I remember it was the cliche you can't watch it, you're too little yeah yeah. So I snuck down the hallway and kind of just poked my head out and watched all of Lost Boys just in a very uncomfortable position. And so which you know it didn't really bug me as a kid, because my grandma made me watch horror movies.
Speaker 2I was just going to say because you don't feel it in the morning when your body's twisted, yeah.
Speaker 1And so, and like that's the first vampire movie I ever saw not horror movie I ever saw Okay, but and so, and it's remained my favorite. Nothing's topped it, and it has nothing to do with nostalgia, it has everything to do with that. I like the 80s. It's the most 80s vampire movie Okay.
Speaker 2So in it. Oh my god, you've got both cory's are in it, you know alex winter's in it.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's just great.
Speaker 2It's kind of made for you like it really is when you really think about the scope of everything we've talked about on this podcast and just your movie taste in general.
Speaker 1Your love of the 80s, like cory, was just it was, it was fate you know, people ask me sometimes like I'm an eccentric dresser and they'll be like where does your style come from? And it's usually like the rolling stones and the lost boys and the Lost Boys and they're like what Keith Richards and the Lost Boys.
Speaker 2No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not Peter Pan, Keith or Sullivan's.
Speaker 1Lost Boys? Yeah, no, for sure so. But yeah, that's my first one, okay, okay okay, Would you say so it's your favorite? Oh, yeah, by far.
Speaker 2Now and this is always a question that comes up sometimes is like you consider it the best vampire movie that's a good question because I think I think it's easy to say these are my favorites, but to like objectively, go like.
Speaker 1I think that's the best one I mean, I guess it depends on, like the criteria you put on a vampire movie because the lost boys is not traditional in any sense of the word. No, it goes, but it benefits in that way the fact that you I mean it is interesting that you said peter pan, because the lost boys literally comes from. They're talking, they're referencing p Pan.
Evolution of Vampire Movie Lore
Speaker 2You never grow old.
Speaker 1I think the movie actually started out as it was going to be a weird take on Peter Pan, but then they just dropped it and made him vampires.
Speaker 2It was a weird thing. I'm trying to decide if that would have been better, cooler, no, you like it being its own kind of thing. But that's totally something you could do.
Speaker 1Yeah, for sure, it's not a traditional like. If you're talking about like what's the best in my opinion, like vampire movie, we're staying within like maybe the victorian gothic lore of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say night like bram stoker's 92 dracula okay the france ford coppola it that one finally watching that one, it's, it's clear like he's just trying to make like an old school vampire movie yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1It's all over the place and like the set design is nuts. Yeah, it's wild which is great.
Speaker 2Like watching the thing about 90s movies we talked about this with like adam's family and other movies of that time. Like you're the batman 89. When a set is designed like, even even for as like weird and expressionistic or whatever german expressionism, whatever the vibe was that they were all going for, like you get to like. It's almost like getting to go into a theme park in a good way, like you're you're fully immersed in it, like nowadays.
Speaker 2We kind of have this problem of like I know that's a green screen, I know that that background isn't real yeah and with that you're like no, I know that, I know it's a fake background, that's, I know it's a set but it's tangible, I can touch it.
Speaker 1It's a match and I could. Someone spent hours upon hours and I could fill in the blanks of this world but, just with that information. Not for sure. I would say that's the best traditional vampire movie.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, because I mean I've seen the original Dracula. It's hard, I like it, it's a good one. It's just the time that has passed by it's obviously much. It's almost 100 years old now, so it's hard to watch. With a modern context to it, I like it more than Nosferatu yeah, nosferatu's so it's hard to, it's just goofy yeah but there's a lot of cool visuals with that as well.
Speaker 2You know they definitely were playing, I mean, the iconic stare sequence with the shadow. Obviously you're gonna like, and that's the same actor that played the man who laughs right, yeah, okay, conrad v, who was? Also in the uh dr caligari sleeper yeah that's.
Speaker 1That's a creepy movie, so I love that movie. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2So, cory, uh, do you want want me to give you the internet's top 10 alleged top 10 vampire movies?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Okay. So this is from Rankercom. A lot of people can go on there. You can vote, you can upvote, you can downvote. It's an ever-changing list. You may not like this list, corey. You just describing it pisses me off. Yeah, I'm going to start with 12, because I think that'll soften the blow a bit. So, number 12, you got the Stephen King adaptation of Salem's Lot. Hey, that's solid. From what year was that? 1970s? It was in the 70s, 1979, from Tobey Hooper, you got 11, the original Dracula of Bela Lugosi At 10, nosferatu jumps above it. Matt Schreck Is Matt Schreck, who plays Count Orlok in that. That's who we were talking about.
Speaker 1Yeah, Max Shrek. Okay, Max Shrek. Oh, so yeah, it's not Conrad Veet. Conrad Veet is the man who laughs.
Speaker 2Max Shrek is Nosferatu. Okay, got it, got it. I'm glad we figured that out now so that people wouldn't yell at us online.
Speaker 1Oh, people who know that aren't listening to us, that's true Number nine we got.
Speaker 2this is where it's clear. This is like a modern internet list. Van Helsing is at number eight. That's just trolls, number seven is Blade II, blade II, blade II. Number six is Fright Night. Oh, blade II's. Good Wait, which one? 85.
Speaker 1Okay, hey, the Colin Farrell one's solid.
Speaker 2Is it solid? Yeah, okay, the John Yelchin, colin Farrell, one's solid Dracula okay number four. Okay, this is where you're gonna get underworlds. At number four. Number three is blade, the original, number two is interview with a vampire and number one the Lost Boys thank god, I got that right I was like you'll be mad for most of it, but you'll be pleased at the end all right, I asked chat GPT okay, that's fair. We asked the humans.
Speaker 1Let's ask the computer, let's ask AI. Hold on, what was your criteria? Here's a list of top 10 fan movies that have had a significant impact on the genre.
Speaker 2Okay, that's how I decided to do it.
Speaker 1Only Lovers Left Alive. That's a 2013 movie.
Speaker 2That's got Loki himself in it.
Speaker 1Yeah, and Tilda.
Speaker 2Swinton.
Speaker 1I thought it was an interesting one Number nine, the Iranian film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
Speaker 2Oh, that's a really cool one.
Speaker 1Eight what we Do in the Shadows. Yes, seven, 30 Days of Night, perfect.
Speaker 2Six, let the Right One In. Wow, but that one's just now coming up on this podcast. That was a big one, that was.
Speaker 1Five is Blade, four, interview Three, the Lost Boys, and then obviously they put two Dracula, chat, gbt put the, the copy, the remake, or the yeah, the copy, copy. That's wild, yeah they said screw you, stoker, do you? The germans did it better well, you know, there's is.
Speaker 2I don't know if it's germany or what country it is, but somebody took the book dracula and in their process of translating it, they just said screw it.
Speaker 1And rewrote the book and made it better apparently oh yeah, I've heard this story and I don't, I don't know that's, that's I? I doubt it because I read dracula like every two years and it's such a good book yeah, I've never I haven't got to sit down to read it.
Speaker 2I mean it's a it's a chore but it's really good, it's a great move.
Speaker 1It's a chore, I mean like it's reading and so, like you're, just it's a chore but like it's lengthy. But it's a brilliant book in that people don't understand that the whole thing's written like a found footage movie. Yeah, it's all written in correspondence. Every chapter is either a letter to someone or a file. It's almost like the book's like. You found all these documents and put a story together.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah. And what's crazy is that book came out in 1897, and it's like 127 years old. Now that's pretty nuts. 127 years is a long time, but the fact that we've had vampire lore and stuff way before that and the fact that that's the staple vampire and it's relatively recent in the scope of time and history.
Speaker 1I think it's interesting too that we look at vampires and obviously they're always going to be relevant in pop culture. We kind of made fun of Twilight and all this stuff, but vampires are always going to be around, they're always going to be part, they're always gonna be part of storytelling. Um, as a, as a, as a, as a character or whatever, but, like bram stoker gets all this credit for creating dracula, which he based off vladimir tepe's like some turkish emperor that just like to impale people um, this is not that vlad the impaler.
Speaker 2well, it's vlad it, yeah, but I think his name's like Vladimir Tepes or something like that.
Speaker 1Yeah, I like to impale people it really grows.
Speaker 2I was really into it. Well, it's more of like a. It was an intimidation thing, right?
Speaker 1It was like it was intimidation slash torture. Like yeah if you come up to his crib, take a giant stake and you just kind of impale someone on the top of it and leave them there.
Speaker 2They slowly go down it sure, so they take forever to die. Oh god, it's just kind of ripping like a different kind of crucifix situation.
Speaker 1That was kind of his big thing and so um, kind of a weird kink, but you know so, bram sucker does that, but he's credited for creating like kind of the modern vampire right the lore or like the lore, the rules yeah and all that stuff. But he also doesn't get enough credit that there's a reason that we're also obsessed with vampire hunters.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, he creates Van Helsing in the same book. There was no spinoff. He was just like I make the vampire and I make the guy who's chasing him.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's interesting that we always have vampire hunters in these things or in these stories.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, like in and Alan Brock Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, yeah.
Speaker 1And that's all based off Van Helsing, so like he gets all the credit for.
Speaker 2Dracula, castlevania, also a video game world. We don't give him enough credit for Van Helsing. Yeah, that's true. That is a really good point to make, like, not only did you create the most iconic vampire, but you also created the most iconic vampire hunter but really been built out of that like there's other. There's anime there's video games. Like you know, the the castlevania series about a family that their job is to just keep dracula.
Speaker 1Tell me a famous werewolf hunter?
Speaker 2there's no, you can't exactly yeah, bullcrap, yeah, famous mummy hunter none other than brendan but we don't know his character's right, no, no we like off the top of our head.
Speaker 1We have to google it so, um, but uh, so, yeah, no, um, I, it's wild. Vampires have been a part of cinema since the beginning like not brought to, is a silent film.
Speaker 2Well, it's definitely like the conversation about immortality and death and and the you know the macabre and stuff like that.
Speaker 1It's, it's, it's tapping into that there's a sexuality to vampires as well yeah, the allurement of it all there's a 90s movie, I think it's got christopher walken in it and, uh, lily tay, I think, is her name. And it's literally like this black and white film. I think it's called Addiction, but it's literally a movie about addiction, but told through vampires and like their addiction to blood like they're junkies. It's like almost a very erotic kind of sad movie.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean you've got like the classical universal monsters. We talked a little bit about our current state of horror movies and vampires, but even like the 70s and stuff, you've got christopher lee's hammer movies where he plays dracula and was that? That was actually 58, wasn't it? Yeah, 1958 for a while, though, but yeah because people have to talk about like your favorite dracula.
Speaker 2You got billy go see and, uh, christopher lee's brought up a lot. I don't really know. Beyond those two there's that. There's like an iconic I mean gary oldman's dracula and brad stoker's brought up a lot in modern conversations. Can you think of any others?
Speaker 1not really not the top of my head. Um, you know I'm thinking who played him in dracula 2000 so the first google link gives you here's here's 10 people.
Speaker 2You got bella lugosi, christopher lee, john carradine in House of Dracula in 1945.
Speaker 1That'd be weird.
Speaker 2Gary Oldman, Udo Kier in Blood for Dracula 74, Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu the Vampire.
Speaker 1Udo Kier just looks like a vampire that tracks Trying to see what else we got.
Speaker 2There's a lot of old school European IT captain in Dracula in Istanbul. I'm trying to just see anyone Leslie Nielsen is listed on here and Dracula Dead and Loving it.
Speaker 1Dracula, dead and Loving. It is pretty funny.
Speaker 2It's kind of underrated as one of Mel Brooks' spoof movies, the fact that vampires have been spoofed so much and still have survived to this day and reinvented themselves. Because you get like certain genres will just get destroyed and murdered. And then you're like, well, it's not funny anymore, we can't do, we can't make a normal movie anymore. Like that's kind of the problem most james bond had. For a minute they had to go super serious because daniel craig was like I hate austin powers because I can't make jokes, because he made that version of james bond almost obsolete for a while well, you know.
Speaker 1What bram stoker did, though, is he essentially creates this very simple idea, and that's the beauty of simplicity. He says I mean essentially says what if you could be superman? What if you could fly? What if you were super strong? What if you had like I mean, like you just had all of the power? Your only thing is is can't come out the day and you have to kill people. Yeah, would you make that trade?
Speaker 1it's like most people are like drinking blood's kind of turning me off, but it's a simple fact. Like you said, it's like it's the cost of immortality. And it's like but the line is so fine where you have people go like I don't know, that's a solid trade.
Speaker 2You're like immortality, not dying, yeah, Especially depending on like your you know, your belief in the afterlife and stuff and what happens. Obviously, because the way it's portrayed it's often tied very much to Christianity of vampire. You're essentially damned, yeah, and like you'll go to hell if you ever actually do, you know, die, and so for them it's a lot of being seen as like this outcast of society and being treated as like this condemned being, but at the same time, like you said, basically you get to live forever as long as you don't go out in the daytime.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And I think that that's was like given the circumstances, would you accept immortality, knowing you have to kill people to do it, or like you have to find a way to like feed off of people, or that you're gonna watch everyone you love die? You know, there's other versions of that story outside of vampire lore, but like this is the, obviously like the. When people think of like immortality and stuff, vampires come up first on the bat yeah jack parlance palance played dracula 1974. Did I say that?
Speaker 1no, that's a weird's a weird one.
Exploring Vampire Movie Favorites
Speaker 2Yeah, trying to just even look through this as we're talking. Carlos Villarez in Dracula 31. Huh, interesting, while they were making, there was a Latin spin on it after hours.
Speaker 1Oh, my wife told me about this recently.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, she was telling me that apparently yes, mexico made their own version of Dracula and apparently in Mexico it's it was shot on the same set after the American version shut down for the night. It's revered in Mexico like apparently it's not like a bullcrap, like they didn't try it like apparently like Jube wants to watch it because she's like I'm interested like she said it's.
Speaker 1It's just incredible. She was like listen to some podcast and some Hispanic actor was on there and he was talking about it and he's just like oh yeah, people don't know that there's a Mexican version of Dracula that's filmed at the same time and it's really well done. A lot of people think better.
Speaker 2Frank Langella played Dracula in 79 in. I Love New York commercials. Bad Skeletor. I'm going to say it. It's a bad Skeletor, I don't care. They're like, oh no, he brought Gravita Skeletor and put him in weird makeup He-Man. You give him a skull and you make him terrifying with a goofy voice.
Speaker 1Yeah, hopefully they get that right this next time around. Oh, they're never making this He-Man movie. They've been making this He-Man movie for 20 years.
Speaker 2It could be so good, corey, if they would just get it.
Speaker 1Yeah, they never get it. They're not going to get it. I kind of wrote down some that I love and we've mentioned most of these. I'll say this is I Am Legend, a vampire movie. Do we ever determine if those are vampires? They don't come out in day.
Speaker 2That's the big thing Right, they don't come out in day. Zombies don't really have that problem, I think. I mean, the book is a vampire story. He's the vampire, he's the other, he's the Van.
Speaker 1Helsing.
Speaker 2That's the whole riff on the title is that he's become the monster to the vampires. But in that story they're very much vampires they can think, they can talk.
Speaker 1In the movie. In this one they're like mindless. Yeah, they made them kind of zombies, which?
Speaker 2is kind of stupid. They're making a sequel to I Am Legend based off of the alternate ending of the movie that didn't come out eaters, so that will. Smith can live. Basically sorry, spoilers from 20 years ago yeah, sorry, will, smith doesn't make it.
Speaker 1Um, uh, what's another one we haven't brought up yet? We haven't dove really deep into interview the vampire.
Speaker 2I think that that one, though, if you're talking about like legitimizing vampires a bit like I feel like, at least for me, that did to an extent because it was it was a period piece very much, so it had all these a-list actors and stuff. It was one that was on tv a lot too, and I remember it was very much a thing of like the mtv crowd of that time period yeah in the mid 90s.
Speaker 2But like we were talking about brad pitt earlier and it like put him not only on the map along with all his other 90s run movies, but it also was the first time, I think, I watched a movie where you saw somebody having to deal with the choice they made to become a vampire. He, his, his character, lewis, was always just constantly like trying not to kill people at first, yeah, until a stat played by tom cruise is like dude, you just gotta do it like one of the few tom cruise he'll excellently played.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh you're like why are you playing heroes?
Speaker 2I just want to be a bad guy. He's so good at being a bad guy no um one of the absolute best performances um but but I do think that one, that one is like I don't want to put it on that mantle, but it feels godfather-esque in a sense a longer tale over a period of time, multiple generations. You're and you're seeing like the ramifications of rapids characters.
Speaker 1Now, I haven't seen the new show, but here's what I say, what I like about interview the vampire yeah I was unaware that ann rice wrote like 20 sequels yeah, like I mean.
Speaker 2Mean there's like a whole.
Speaker 1They call it Vampire Chronicles. Like apparently Lestat becomes a rock star.
Speaker 2Oh, that's Queen of the Damned, yeah, yeah, and all sorts of weird stuff, you know.
Speaker 1So I'm like happy that they did interview the vampire and then let it die. I mean, queen of the Damned eventually came, but like I like that they didn't go all right let's.
Speaker 2And yeah, queen of damn, like you said it's, it's just a weird movie because it's it lives in the new metal world. You know it's jonathan davis of corn is the voice yeah, leah's in it it's a weird thing.
Speaker 1It's an interesting. You don't love it.
Speaker 2I haven't watched it in like years and I don't feel like it's gonna hold up that well, other than other than the soundtrack, which I still thought was a pretty great soundtrack so, but yeah, I but I like I bought all these hand rise books.
Speaker 1I haven't just sat down and read them, though, but I read a lot of the synopsis and I'm like, oh, this gets weird. Okay, alright, I'm in. Now we brought up From Dussel Dawn. I think From Dussel Dawn is ridiculously incredible movie considering, it's just bonkers Right, it's just.
Speaker 1you don't even know it's a vampire movie until that's the best part is that if someone has gotten through life not ever hearing it from nestle don, you can say, hey, I'm gonna put on this like kind of like neo-western kind of wrote it a little bit like I'm gonna put on this neo-western kind of thriller, yeah, and then when the vampires show up, they're gonna be like what the hell is going on because it's this excellently written two guys on the run from the law.
Speaker 1They've robbed banks, shot some cops. They're trying to get to mexico.
Speaker 2It goes for like an hour at least, and you have. There's no signifier, no clue, nothing nothing about like missing people outside.
Speaker 1You know they just go. We're meeting at a strip club called the titty twister in like mexico and like right, then the movie all of a sudden changes it, does it like goes from 89 batman to batman and robin in tone real fast. It's like the building looks like it shouldn't exist. It's like beetlejuice outside of the whorehouse in the miniature, it's like what's happening.
Speaker 2Wait a minute, why is this?
Speaker 1here and so, and then, yeah, all the strippers are vampires, which is just insanely fun.
Speaker 2Um, but also it made, uh, george clooney a massive star it did, and I'm and we kind of never got that george clooney again like he always played the smart, suave criminal, obviously in Ocean's Eleven, but it was different.
Speaker 1His.
Speaker 2Gecko brothers. He was very much willing to do the wrong thing to get by. He was a gray character, much more so. Danny Ocean's a lot more like I have rules.
Speaker 1It's just wild that it's this guy who's like I'm leaving this TV show ER. I want to break into films, I don't want to be a TV actor and no one's going to take him seriously because he's the dude from ER Right and I'm like Robert Rodriguez? Is that who directed it? Robert Rodriguez directed it Because his band's, the band that plays Tito and. Tarantula and that's such a good song. But then it's just wild because like george clooney plays that movie like it's like it's hamlet yeah, he is, oh, 100, he is sold.
Speaker 2Every monologue is real.
Speaker 1And then all of a sudden. That's what makes him a star and I love it. Um the last movie I want to bring up. I mean, we've talked about blade, but blade it's, it's. Let's not even go into detail. It's a sad news right now marvel universe that they can't.
Speaker 2It's sad, but the deadpool is turning into a prophet, more than a yeah than a jokester so um.
Speaker 1Have you ever seen John Carpenter's vampires?
Speaker 2no, I don't think I have it's Nick.
Speaker 1I don't know if it's a good movie or a bad movie. I've watched it at least five times no, I've seen.
Speaker 2I was thinking of the fog. I've seen the fog, but I haven't seen vampires yet it's just a weird movie that John Carpenter made.
Speaker 1It's based off a book I guess that someone wrote, but it's just literally about vampire hunters.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And uh, but it's James Woods the hero. It makes no damn sense, cause he's terrible at being a hero.
Speaker 2He's, yeah, he's, he's, he's Hades.
Speaker 1And like the. He plays the vampire. He does a really good job at it, but it's just the writing of James Wood's characters. It's just the most toxic, masculine bullcrap.
Speaker 2Every horrible trope of a hero from that era crammed into this.
Speaker 1He hits women.
Speaker 2It's just the worst type of thing.
Speaker 1He has no character arc at all, but it's wildly an entertaining movie. They'll go in to the nest they call them, and then they just shoot crossbows into their hearts that are hooked to a Jeep outside, that just reels them out and they explode in the sun and I was like this is just a. Really they have a system.
Speaker 2It's a system. They got a whole process for this situation. One of the Baldwin brothers is in it, okay.
Speaker 1One of the third tier, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Corey, have you ever seen the movie Life Force?
Speaker 1No, corey have you ever seen the movie Life Force? No, by Toby.
Speaker 2Hooper. This is a 85 science fiction Horror film I'm already in. It's Toby Hooper and it's the book Was called Space Vampires. Would have been On my Kindle would have been. A much better title for this movie. Sometimes you need Life Force is so broad.
Speaker 1Back in the day they were like you can't have Space Vampires, but it's 80s, it's 86, it's with a different movie, it's 86.
Speaker 2It's perfect for a movie called or 85.
Speaker 1It's perfect for because you're at the height of B movies. No one's gonna take it seriously for space vampires.
Speaker 2I mean, I guess, so I mean.
Speaker 1Toby Hooper just came off of. They didn't call it sunset.
Speaker 2Yeah, I feel like you know, I feel like, if you had, if there was ever a moment for a director to be like. I'm making a movie, it's called space vampires and there's nothing, and people are gonna come watch it because I made it that's the moment it was like can we call it something different?
Speaker 1my life force, he's like space vampire that's it.
Speaker 2That feels like. That feels like such a like disney thing, like let's call it tangled instead of rapunzel, like that'll that'll bring in the boys it's a little stupid, like it's a wild movie. I, if you, if you're interested, if you're a big vampire, people, people, uh, check that one out. It's pretty, pretty insane in ways because it has such a cool concept. But I do feel like you walk in going like I don't know what this movie is.
Speaker 2I'm not sure what to expect out of it yeah, yeah so, uh, before before I get to the second topic I'm going to talk about real quick cory. I'm going to give you four movies that I kind of have been on my radar, that I kind of want to watch, that are vampire based we talked about fright night yeah near dark is a catherine bigelow movie.
Speaker 1I've heard great things about it. It's pretty.
Speaker 2It's pretty fun yeah, once bitten the jim carrey movie, great movie, and then I keep seeing it brought up as well as the hunger have never seen the Hunger. Yeah, the Hunger movie. If I will quickly do some half, it's from 1983. It keeps being brought up on the list.
Speaker 1I know it's going to be good.
Speaker 2Tony Scott's directorial debut.
Speaker 1David Bowie's in it. Susan.
Speaker 2Sarandon what's not to like here? But let's talk about how movies. We've talked a little bit about how vampires have evolved a tad bit, but let's talk about twilight. I've never seen them.
Modern Vampire Movies and Nostalgia
Speaker 1Have you ever watched them? I've never seen them. I read the first book with the height of it was going on and I was like I'm going to check into this. It's one of the most poorly written things I've ever read, Cause it's a.
Speaker 2it's badly written it's badly written Cause it's a.
Speaker 1I mean like I'm not, I don't want to knock anyone that likes it and enjoys it and stuff like that but I mean like I read the Hunger Games, which is also young adult, and those are well written, sure, you know, and it's like, but like Twilight's, just it was just poorly written that's fair and like I, you know it wasn't. I like the idea, I guess, and it's interesting, you know, like it's just, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2I just never. It was at a time where I, you know, I didn't go on a date to watch it or anything. The underworlds had come and gone at that time, and then it popped up and you know.
Speaker 1Was there a vacuum that needed to be filled? I guess there was some vacuum.
Speaker 2Harry Potter had wrapped up, they needed something new to sell. I mean, look at David Bowie in this Hunger photo. Like, look, how good he looks in this. Like he looks how cool he looks. Yeah, it looks. Just I felt it needed to be commented on. You know you have that. You have, like the True Blood TV series, a lot of Vampire Diaries type stuff comes out.
Speaker 2Yeah, there was a time where, like it became a young adult thing, it kind of just became like teenagers, and mainly teenage girls, are all about vampires right now, because we're going to get hot guys and girls, make them vampires and just make some kind of nighttime drama type stuff.
Speaker 1But I mean, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer existed as a TV show, a wildly popular TV show that I have never seen one episode of.
Speaker 2I've seen several episodes, but I've seen the Christy Swanson movie. Yeah, like 90 like 100 times it is amazing add that to my list. Yeah, that movie's incredible so but yeah, I just it's interesting to see how I think that happened and there and it got spoofed. Obviously the the twilights of the world, but I feel like now we're in this kind of revamp of it. You know we talked about eggers nosferatu coming out.
Speaker 1There's been some others that just the Michael B Jordan movie that's coming out supposedly is about vampires. That's right.
Speaker 2Apparently, christopher Nolan is going to make a vampire movie in the 20s.
Speaker 1Man see, that's badass.
Speaker 2So I think we're right on the cusp Corey of some good.
Speaker 1Okay, the 70s seems like an untapped market for a little bit you know we we never like.
Speaker 2Who's ever seen vampires and bell bottoms? So you're wanting like I want days and confused, but with vampires you know, so is that lost boys within vampires, or they're?
Speaker 180s, like they're wearing, like cool stuff, like I mean I just want the 70s man, just that whole vibe, some chops, you know, and yeah I'm trying to think of okay, let's look at.
Speaker 2Let's look at some list of some 1970s vampire movies you've got gonna be kind of gothic.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like it's all like dracula there's an osferatu remake.
Speaker 2Lust for the vampire. Uh, vamp, vampros, lesbos, it's okay blackula, yeah, black.
Speaker 1But again I take on the victorian right. Right, right, right.
Speaker 2So yeah, it's everything I'm looking at.
Speaker 1It's very much setting it, or a vampire movie set in the 50s, like a quote-unquote modern time of the 70s.
Speaker 2Not, we made a movie in the 70s, but it's a period piece.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I don't want a 70s movie I want a movie set in the 70s with vampires, but also give me like Leave it to Beaver, but Vampires.
Speaker 2Yeah, vampires no, but that's more like it's in its own gothic kind of world. It's not just vampires, it's not like hey, these people are living a normal life and they also happen to eat their neighbors or something.
Speaker 1They're just hey, we're the Addams Family. Yeah right, actually I don't know which one came first. I probably shouldn't knock on Munsters, but I'm assuming the Addams Family came first?
Speaker 2Which came first? Addams, family or Munsters? This has September 18th 1964. Munsters aired on September 24th 1964. There's a week, corey.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, suck it, munsters, but Adam's family would have come from pre-existing content, from Charles Adams, that's just crazy that they came out literally the same year, the same month. That sounds like a bidding war that got lost. The other one said well, we're just creating our own, we need some history.
Speaker 2Here, munsters included analogs to universal monsters. Herman was a version of frankenstein's monster. Yada yada yada. The original pitch was more what the adam's family became, produced by the creators of leave it to beaver but yeah, that's, I'm gonna do a crossover episode.
Speaker 1I don't think so. I don't, I don't think so.
Speaker 2I need the beef but competition from throwing his frisbee into the monster's yard. But batman, batman led to him. The monsters being canceled, apparently. Competition, yeah well.
Speaker 1Adam West is a badass.
Speaker 2There it is.
Speaker 1We're in color.
Speaker 2Take that.
Speaker 1All right, all right. So, yeah, no, we're in a resurgence. Yeah, we're coming out of that kind of young adult which was honestly like in a lot of ways I think, the Twilight, the Buffy show, vampire Diaries. It kind of goes back to the 50s kind of trend of like I was a teenage werewolf.
Speaker 2I was a teenage zombie.
Speaker 1It's like, hey, let's take this thing, set it in high school and kids will go watch it and make out to it.
Speaker 2I'm also trying to look up kids vampires because I'm really trying to dig at okay, do I?
Speaker 1remember the little vampire Jake Lipnicki.
Speaker 2Lipnicki's in there. I'm trying to just see if there's any 24 best vampire movies for kids to watch.
Speaker 1They have Dracula listed on here, the original. I don't know why they could handle it.
Speaker 2Monster Squad technically had Dracula in it. That's true. They listed Nightmare Before Christmas. I guess there's vampires in it. Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire. Some Disney movies Halloween Town they're listing.
Speaker 1Do they mom's got a date with a vampire? Some disney movies, halloween town they're listing, but these do they have vampires in this hot take? I?
Speaker 2don't like the halloween town movies. I've never precious to, I've never watched them, but I'm like there's only like a few of those disney channel movies that I'm like oh, there's a mummy one called under wraps, yeah, that was a fun one.
Speaker 1Not the original or not the remake that they have now. Okay, I want them to bring back the original, put on disney. What's the point of Disney Plus if I can't have all the stuff?
Speaker 2It's in the vault core. You have to go get it from the vault. The vault should be done. The vault is done technically. I'm paying you so much money a month yeah.
Speaker 1Give me under wraps from the 90s, I just want it.
Speaker 2Give it to me now.
Speaker 1Put it on my.
Speaker 2TV. So basically your options are Hotel Transylvania. That's pretty much it. So not a lot of kids, but then again that makes sense because parents are terrified of the occult, so there you go.
Speaker 1No, everything's bad, everything's wrong. Well, nick, you ready to?
Speaker 2do this. It's time to do the thing you said you'd never do.
Speaker 1I said I'd never do it and I'm not doing it in the traditional sense no, you're not, no, I'm not I still wouldn't participate in such a thing. But I'm saying let's recast the lost boys. Okay, but just, I give you a cast list, you give me a cast list and we're like, we're fine, and we don't. We don't like put our quantum recast seal on it okay, it's definitive.
Speaker 2Sure we don't have a third ash alley and cast are not here to make to choose between our picks.
Speaker 1Really, you would probably have to sit in the director's chair. Oh, I would throw punches, I'd be furious, corey would just give us a list.
Speaker 2These are the actors you could choose from.
Speaker 1Yes, and if you deviate from this I'll walk off. But I think I gave you some parameters. I said, hey, I'm going to do a modern version, if we made the Lost Boys within the last five years and you were going to do yours in the 90s, right? But I gave you the criteria that the movie you can. Nothing's sacred anymore. I may live to see a remake of the Lost Boys one day, which would?
Speaker 1absolutely be. Just get under my skin right away. But if it's not set in the 80s, it's not the Lost Boys.
Speaker 2So our movies are still set in the 80s. Talk to me about the significance of the 80s.
Speaker 1With lost has to be. Yeah, it's just it's it's an 80s movie and it's just it's got so much 80s stuff to it.
Speaker 2The aesthetic of that movie is kind of what is one of the many pillars I guess you're saying.
Speaker 1That makes it any other arrow where it's common for teenagers to ride their dirt bags on beaches, karate, kid and you know the lost boys when you did this stuff.
Speaker 2You don't do it any other time. No, the kids don't go out anymore, sadly.
Speaker 1You couldn't wear the jacket Marco's wearing around in any other year than 1987. Anytime after that you're going to shoot somebody up, someone's just mad.
Speaker 2Anytime before. I don't even know Everybody's just like. Why are you wearing that?
Speaker 1It's got to be the big hair, it's got to be a dude in purple were cool, but then Columbine hit and it was done.
Speaker 2No one can wear trench coats for a really long time. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1But I think it just has to be 80s. The soundtrack is 80s, the look's 80s. I mean, like the Max character is wearing shoulder pad jacket. It's very odd they're working in a video rental.
Speaker 2I'm just even trying to honestly think of where you could move that aesthetic to outside of the 80s, like the 90s is close, like you're saying, like a modern one. They would just make it with the 80s, set in the 80s, basically. But I'm even just trying to think like where could you move that to in any other period of time? And there's just it's permanently, you know, spray painted into that spot it is.
Speaker 1If you remove that aesthetic, it's just a different movie.
Speaker 2You, if you remove that aesthetic, it's just a different movie, you know, it's just it's part, because it's part biker, it's part gothic, it's part.
Speaker 1You know, beach kid it's, it's, it's all over the place and also it's like, it's the idea of like kind of like the 80s, like latchkey kids you know like the fact that there's just these teenagers running around the pier doing whatever they want, like that's the 80s, it's just like that's. Like that's. That's ronald reagan saying the world's gone to hell. Our teenagers are out of control yeah it's just like that's what you have to do if you take this movie and you'd like say, hey, we're gonna make the Lost Boys in the 50s.
Speaker 2They're greasers and it's just ridiculous and it's just, you know it, that's close, but yeah, it's not quite the same vibe it's. It's trying to do rebel without a cause, but with vampires here's.
Speaker 1Here's. Here's a remake of the Lost Boys I'd get on board with. Okay, and I think it's got it if you, if you're gonna, the only way it's gonna work is if it's outside of the 80s. Yeah, though, I think this still works in the 80s, but you could take it essentially anywhere, because, um, we suck as people. But, like if you took, like if you let, uh, who's the monkey paw guy? I can't think of right now.
Speaker 1Oh, oh, jordan, jordan, jordan peel. Yeah, jordan peel, if you let him, which he made a lot of homages to lost boys in Us. Okay, you know, they said it on the Santa Cruz.
Speaker 1Pier and all this stuff. And so if you let Jordan Pier or Jordan Peele make a movie but like, the four main vampires are all black kids, you know, and the main vampire is a black kid or a black man, you know, stuff like that and you create that kind of racial tension where it's like people keep a distance from them because they're the black kids running around, you know, like santa cruz california and stuff like that I mean, I think that you could do that and it'd be a really interesting movie.
Speaker 1Yeah, you could kind of tackle race issues and kind of like that whole aesthetic it gives it like a new layer white privilege, black fear type thing that jordan peele could do really well, or I mean you could nyakosta any like black filmmaker yeah, her version of candy man was just phenomenal, you know, but I think that could work in a world because you're going away from kind of that latchkey like a bunch of white lost kids to like.
Speaker 1But like the black kids that, like you know, your parents, without trying to be racist, say like well, don't go near them. Like maybe don't play with those kids.
Speaker 2It's the same era that you know the likes of NWA grew up in. You know, do the right thing, a type of world where you were in your neighborhood and stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly. So I mean like you would still keep Michael and Sam White you know, and stuff like that. But like you would be like really tackling that. And honestly, you know, just like this un-irrational Blackfear type of thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, yeah, I could see that. I mean he's making his vampire movie, so and it's coming out soon. I thought you had. I was like, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, put him in, let him run with it.
Speaker 1No, Um same thing. But uh, uh, no, but yeah I, I made a, I made a modern cast of this.
Speaker 2Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, um, and I made a nineties cast late, late nineties is where I aimed.
Speaker 1Okay. Now I think I'm going to cast more people than you, okay and then the Frog Brothers Okay, I also casted Grandpa Max and Mom.
Speaker 2Okay, cool, so give me your Grandpa Max and Mom.
Speaker 1Okay, so for this modern version though. I don't want just a typical old man.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I'm kind of going with more of a grandpa that you think might get his hands dirty, okay, okay, I want William Finchner as my grandpa.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, you know. Yeah, yeah, he's out there, you know and stuff like that.
Speaker 1So I just kind of like the idea of him playing a grandfather.
Speaker 2Yeah, to these guys and then like get him a beard maybe, or some scruff A beard.
Speaker 1I want him to look scruffy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and stuff like that, but like the end when he comes in.
Speaker 2I think if you have, a younger guy whole time.
Speaker 1You're kind of like I bet that guy's killed some vampires.
Speaker 2This guy's seen some stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, he's seen some stuff. Then you get the prequel.
Speaker 2We're in.
Speaker 1With Grandpa Max. Listen, I had to go this route. It's going to be Idris Elba.
Speaker 2You know who could play a younger version of William Fichtner?
Speaker 1Jeremy Allen White.
Speaker 2Is that the guy from the Bear? Yeah, yeah, that's who it is.
Speaker 1Nah, I'm with you, okay all right, I'm on the same page, but Max I have as Idris Elba, because Idris Elba could 100% be a vampire and I believe it right now. Okay, but he's also charming. So when he's dating your mom, you're like charming and he's great as a vampire. You're like man, he looks good. Mom, Helena Bonham Carter.
Speaker 2Okay, obviously she's just creepy. Sure Works out.
Speaker 1Plays well.
Speaker 2Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1Who do you have left? Is that it? That's the only extra I did.
Speaker 2Well, the final of the lightning round, I guess the specialty the Frog Brothers Give me your Frog Brothers.
Speaker 1Okay Now, this is one of the Corory's movie.
Speaker 2it's an unofficial cory's movie. Okay, because they're not paired together.
Speaker 1They're not chippendaling where they met, but then they would make license to drive. Got it, got it, okay, okay like right after.
Speaker 2So um my alan frog, who is cory feldman I'm bringing you gatton matarazzo from stranger from stranger things.
Speaker 1The goofy kid from stranger things okay, okay, to me it works, because me it works. And then for Edgar, who's the more serious?
Speaker 2of the Frog Brothers.
Speaker 1I'm bringing you Jack Dylan Grazer. Most people know him. He's one of the child actors from it.
Speaker 2Chapter 1. And I think he was in the Shazam movies. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That's correct. That's correct.
Speaker 1So I'm bringing you those two as a pairing. Obviously, jack Dylan and Graves are going to be the more serious one, gatton being the more Cordy.
Speaker 2Feldman, feldman-ing it up a bit.
Speaker 1The beauty about the Frog Brothers is that they're sold out to the idea that there's vampires in their town and that they know how to murder them, and then you find out that they've never done it. They're a little shot to the right and I'm just like I like these two kids in this role you know, and so I think it'd be a lot of fun I like that.
Casting and Character Discussion
Speaker 2Okay, so I'm I'm doing a wild america reunion for my frog brothers thank god for alan. I'm giving you devin sawa I love it because he's still a teenager at this point. And then for edgar it's jonathan taylor, thomas I'm, I'm down so put them in, let them be like yeah, we know how to do it, we're gonna do it everybody's like this guy was in final destination. I believe it like, and you're like, wait a minute and then it turns out they're just absolutely winging it right when his final destination oh it's a 2000 okay, so I'm ahead of my time.
Speaker 1Sorry, cas, excuse me yeah, no, he hasn't done it yet. Not yet he's been casper, though.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's been casper yeah, have we talked about this on on this podcast, yet our beef with casper um that, that he's like an eight-year-old, the whole movie and then turns into devin sawers, into a fully grown hit puberty like teenager.
Speaker 1Yeah, so we can kiss christina richie he makes out with what we just perceived he was he's the friendly ghost he's the friendly ghost, it's pitched the whole movie friend zone ghost.
Speaker 2Yes, it's. It's established a little bit that he has a crush on her, but clearly he died drowning full of toys.
Speaker 1Sledding, sledding, yeah he's a the whole movie. You're like this kid cannot be more than seven years old. I just watched this and it's just like that. No point is there ever a romantic connection.
Speaker 2Until he shows up looking like a babe. Until he shows up looking like a babe.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you're still kind of like when they're kissing at the end you're like that's your friend, that's your seven year, and then the dance is over, he turns back into a ghost and they kind of just don't talk about it.
Speaker 2They don't. They're just like we're going to do a dance number. Cool, that was a studio intervention. We got Sawa on the contract. Listen, that doesn't work with my movie.
Speaker 1The whole movie they're waiting to see if they got Sawa. It's a whole alternate ending and they can't get him.
Speaker 2It's like a Bill Murray thing hasn't been on set and no one's seen him in town damn it, nick.
Speaker 1You know what? We could have just had jtt show up in casper that would have been more believable.
Speaker 2He would have been like eight or nine. He could have come in.
Speaker 1That would have been accurate and it'd been like the I'm the eight year old with the crush on my babysitter. She could have given like a pick on the cheek.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know, respectful little tussle of the hair and they can dance and it turns back to a ghost and it kind of means more right, we don't need her first sexual experience as a young woman with. The only way, the only way it works with sawa is if you rewrite him and he's not a, he's like a teenager and sawa voices him yeah, and he's a teenage ghost I guess, I guess sabrina the teenage witch.
Speaker 1I already had the teenage part. I guess it would have been as friendly. Yeah, yeah, that's true, that's true. Creepy things, yeah, so that's that's yeah. Yeah, it works better anyway done with tangent.
Speaker 2Let's move on to our top six here. Uh, core, who do you want to go with first? Um, I started with star star, okay, played by jamie gertz. Yes, jamie gertz, are you?
Speaker 1aware that jamie gertz is the wealthiest actor in the world I'm sorry what yeah, apparently she's married to some dude. They did a lot of good business. She's a billionaire with a b, with a b yeah, she herself sports team, she herself or the? Herself or the husband Like she married into. I don't think she married a billionaire. I think they made like smart moves, okay, financially Good on her.
Speaker 2I mean people know her from Less Than Zero Sixteen Candles Twister.
Speaker 1Twister.
Speaker 2Mainly Oklahomans will know her from Twister as the bride to B that eventually leaves Bill Paxton.
Speaker 1For good reason. But yeah, but yeah. Uh, who do you have for now? She's star is part of the lost boys gang, correct, like she's? She's kind of like she's the love interest of our main character michael, yes, and she's kind of like. You almost get the idea that they sent her out as like bait to bring him in right and she falls in. Then later she kind of feels guilty because you know, being a vampire is not fun for everybody, right?
Speaker 2it's fun for those four, sure but she's kind of like I'm not really. Yeah, that was re-remembering and stuff. It was like, yeah, that's right, she's kind of like trying to warn him and falling for him and stuff.
Speaker 1Yeah, like at what point you know they're doing the whole scene where, like, they're eating Chinese food and oh, it's worms, it's maggots.
Speaker 2She has a net worth of $8 billion. Yeah, oh, my goodness, with a isn't all that bad, is it?
Speaker 1Like I mean, dude, she's filming Less Than Zero. Robert Downey Jr is actually doing cocaine on set and she's like making investments.
Speaker 2She's like guys, not right now.
Speaker 1She's like, hey, acting may not always be here. People Invest Robert Downey Jr's like strippers and coke and cars.
Speaker 2I'm gonna live forever. I mean, he's fine now.
Speaker 1It worked out food. So you know the maggots, the thing. And then they hand him the bottle and she says, don't do it, it's blood.
Speaker 2And he doesn't believe her because they've been playing with his mind, right and so yeah, she doesn't want him to do it because she definitely has, like that glammed up 80s look to her with the hair and everything but she's. But jamie gertz herself still has, like this girl next door, quality to her that makes her well she also has like a little brother or it's not even a little brother in the movie. It's someone she takes under. Right, that's right.
Speaker 1Like you know, again she sees this as this sucks, that like we've taken this kid and you know, and whatever. He's a vampire now. So who? You got Listen, I'm making a modern horror movie here. I got Jenna Ortega.
Speaker 2All right, I see where this is going, I see how it.
Speaker 1Is All right, I I'm pretty sure she gets the first call every time something horror related is happening in Hollywood. Is Jenna available?
Speaker 2If she's not, we'll call her. Anyway, she might be. She might be available. I went a little different route. Obviously, christina Ricci is sitting right there in the 90s. I didn't want to go that route. She does so many of these roles.
Speaker 1I went that route. I didn't want Zendaya. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's fair. That's also fair. I went that route. I was like I didn't want Zendaya. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's fair, that's also fair. I went with a lesser known actress from Coyote Ugly, piper Periboh.
Speaker 1Is she the main one? Yeah, she's the main one. Alright, that's fair. Kind of looks like Jamie Girtz A little bit Got the vibes going on there.
Speaker 2Other people might know her from the Rocky and Boo Winkle movie. She had like that little push in the late 90s.
Speaker 1She did. It didn't happen. She had a small push.
Speaker 2Yeah, it didn't quite come through for her. She was in like other stuff as well. She was in that.
Speaker 1Cheaper by the Dozen movie.
Speaker 2No, she was in.
Speaker 1Oh, I thought she played like she was, she was, she was, she was. But that's not what I was. She was in looper. I was like I was just gonna start yelling out this, that last jedi.
Speaker 2No, not that one, not that one, sorry so uh, okay, no, that's fair, I like it.
Speaker 1I'm okay with it. Um, they didn't consider uh I thought about claire danes. I thought about alicia silverstone danes would have been all right, but she'd have been a little too big Richie was obviously the obvious layup of a pick.
Speaker 2But I also thought about Ali Larder. But then I thought about the 80s rules. I was like recasting You're getting half of Tim Burton's family right now and they like to make movies together and I've got two different eras. There's no room for Winona Ryder here. No, she does not appear in my film.
Speaker 1Okay, got it got it moving up, though I got Sam the little brother played by Corey Haim.
Speaker 2Okay, who do you?
Speaker 1have, which that character is essentially. He's the guy that finds out his bigger brother is turning into a vampire yes, and he's the one that says hey, I know these two dudes that work at a comic book store.
Speaker 2He has the frog brothers connection. They've given him a comic book as a guide. It's so 80s. I love this movie. Everything's awesome. Not a real comic either. They made that comic for the movie. Vampires everywhere have they recreated it.
Speaker 1I think you can buy it as a prop. It's a fun thing you can buy. If you want to be the Farag Brothers for Halloween.
Speaker 2I'm going to see if Jube wants to be the Farag Brothers for Halloween. It's a quick, easy you just gotta get the bandana camo.
Speaker 1Yeah, there you go, and so but she has long hair, so she get to be cory feldman.
Speaker 2I don't like sacrifices, cory, it's love and marriage.
Speaker 1Sickness and health come on um, but yeah, he's a fun character played by cory hame. He can't have so much fun in this movie, um, and so, uh, I have finn wolfhard yeah, okay, yeah, that makes sense I tapped into the strangers thing but. I don't think I go back to it. I think I just grabbed those two people out of it but, I think obviously finn wolfhard would play. Well, that's. I mean, that's, he's a solid, it's a solid pick.
Speaker 2Call it a solid actor. Makes a quick appearance in saturday night uh, the movie that's the page does fun, fun job there, cory. In my 90s movie I'm gonna bring you pre lord the rings, elijah wood yeah, that's fine, like he's. He's a little older, but he looks.
Speaker 1he looks like 12 pretty much, until he's Frodo, I mean it depends on what part of the 90s you're in, I guess, right, yeah, I mean I'm thinking like Six, seven.
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Speaker 2From there and on, basically. So give me that. I'm in the late 90s yeah give me a teenage Elijah Wood before.
Speaker 1Super Stardom.
Speaker 2We're in the post-Curt Cobain pro-Alicia Silverstone 90s Corey, just perfect for lost boys.
Speaker 1But yeah, that's who I got. I like those picks. So far, so good. So far, so good. Who's next? Corey? All right, so now we're up to our main four vampires, and then Michael. Okay, okay, so we're gonna go in order of my favorite vampires to least favorite okay, your favorite, two or least favorite which I shouldn't say least favorite, because they're all wonderful got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 2But.
Speaker 1I don't want to start with. I don't want to go in the order. They die okay, so because my favorite dies first, um, I want to start with duane. Okay, right, not the rock now, duane in the uh, but he would be the rock, honestly, like he's the muscle oh, yeah, sure, like I thought you're about to throw that casting.
Speaker 2No, no, you're gonna ruin this movie, cory. What are we doing?
Speaker 1yes, stop, it would be the rock but like he's kind of the muscle, the silent type, the heavy of the group okay, he's taller than the rest, kind of like, just looks a little tougher. He gets shot with a bow and arrow into a stereo and explodes which is amazing and so, and I actually put Lakeith Stanfield here. Oh, that's very cool.
Speaker 2We all love, we love. I love Lakeith.
Speaker 1Stanfield, but Lakeith Stanfield just looks like he could fight you.
Speaker 2He looks like he'd be a vampire, but he also just looks like he could throw down and fight. So I just like it Makes sense.
Speaker 1It makes a lot of sense, for sure, because a lot of playing these four vampires, because only Kiefer gets a lot of lines lines the rest have very limited lines. There's not a lot. The performances are strong in all three. They just know how to like I mean kind of cheese it up for the camera when they're on like but their characters kind of come through in the way they do it and duane's always just kind of like there in the back looking just kind of menacing, and that's the keith stanfield that's fair.
Speaker 2He can look menacing, you know, from the back.
Speaker 1Yeah you know, but at the same time you know like a, like a teenage dirt bike riding vampire.
Speaker 2Plus the hair right. Yeah, He'll have the sweet dreads going on and stuff.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, that's something. It'll be awesome.
Speaker 2I kind of went the similar route. I picked Omar Epps, nice. I just wanted him to be like the cool yeah, he's in the 80s like the white guy that played him. That's name is Billy, long, dark hair, like so that was it made him stand out next to the other guys who all have blonde hair. But I feel like omar is going to be an intimidating look just by staring at you across the way, kind of thing. But he'll also be very cool, like he is in a lot of his movies omar ebbs is such a good actor he's solid he's amazing.
Speaker 1I love him as the coach of the pittsburgh steelers right now his most important role to be to be fair look identical like at this point I I think Omar Epps is rooting for Mike Tomlin to win a Super Bowl. So there might be a movie made about it, because you can't make a movie about a coach that he's won a Super Bowl has he?
Speaker 2Yeah, with Roethlisberger. He did win one with.
Speaker 1Roethlisberger, you're right. Why isn't the Mike Tomlin movie off the ground?
Speaker 2I think he needs to do something controversial.
Speaker 1He's just too good at being a coach and hasn't ever done anything wrong.
Speaker 2He has two Super Bowl rings, Corey.
Speaker 1You're right. He beat Arizona that one year at the end of the game. I forget about the Roethlisberger years. Yup, yup, yup, yup. I'm a Steelers fan too. That's bad, Well, Roethlisberger's not. I'm pumped.
Speaker 2All right, who's next? Corey, we're going with Paul. Paul, who's got the most 80s hair of the group? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but it's very big, it's very.
Speaker 1He looks like he could just pick up guitar and be in any 80s hair band. Yes or like gray tights with like writing boots. Yeah yeah, but he's kind of like maybe like more loose cannon of the group. He's kind of the one that's always laughing and kind of joking around, not taking anything seriously when he has a line. Again, the actor does a lot with very little. He gets thrown into a bathtub full of holy water and melts, you know the Christian way.
Speaker 2Garlic doesn't work. That's one of his lines. Love that Because they fill it with garlic and he says. He laughs and says doesn't work. That's one thing I do. That became more of a thing as we move more into modern cinema was that they started getting rid of a lot of the more ridiculous.
Speaker 1Every movie starts going here's our rules, yeah, and here's not our rules, you know, and things like that the the lost boys actually utilizes one of the like less used ones, which is you have to invite a vampire in yeah, yeah, which I always loved, that about Lost Boys, because it's not a heavily used one.
Speaker 2No, not outside of the main Dracula story, and that was also something I read about. I believe it was Vampire Diaries. They the writer. She made the choice I can't remember what specifically she made a choice to go outside of canon.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And turned out it was like, oh, that's actually kind of cool. I can't remember what specifically she did I haven't watched the series or anything, but I like when people take a risk. That's within reason. Yeah, but even Twilight did it, because they're like no, we don't die in the sunlight, we just aren't. I think they're not as strong, but they definitely glitter, or shimmer or whatever. That was the first sign. That is not my vampire movie.
Speaker 1No no.
Speaker 2Well, who do you have for Paul?
Speaker 1I brought Austin Butler Mainly because he looks exactly like the actor.
Speaker 2Yeah, who passed away? Actually there is no one with us. That's not sad to hear. Okay, 90s I was tempted to give you Sean William Scott Corey.
Speaker 1Damn it, Nick.
Speaker 2But I'm going to be respectful here we're playing by the rules. I'm going to give you the other guy who's born can james? Can scott con, scott con yeah scott james con son, okay with that he just, he just gives off that vibe like whether he's in varsity blues or oceans 11, he can play the little bit of the hot head, he's it, he's.
Speaker 1He's less of a caricature than sean william scott. Sean william scott it would be a departure yes, a bit yeah, whereas with scott con it's you could have done david arquette pre uh scream stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, that would have been, it was a vampire in Buffy Vampire Slayer oh okay In the movie, oh okay, never mind the more you know.
Speaker 1But he does play very much, like Paul.
Speaker 2He's very kind of like loose canon kind of goofy. That was kind of the thing In that documentary where he's you Can't Kill David Arquette. I was reminded that it's like before Scream and stuff he was seen as like an up-and-coming actor, yeah, like one of those serious actor or whatever. So so Scott Kahn, that's who we're going with here, not David, thank you okay with David, I guess all right.
Speaker 1So that brings us to my favorite vampire. I'm not gonna put him any higher, okay, but Marco got it played brilliantly by Alex winter. Yes, of Bill and Ted fame.
Speaker 2Bill s Preston Esquire living off of vibes a lot, but I mean he's got the jacket he does. Yes, the jacket, the jacket in the movie um and a jacket that tanner and I found something similar. Yeah, I found a very similar jacket.
Speaker 1Yeah every once in a while I find that jacket for auction.
Speaker 2You know like because you haven't bought it. Oh, it's always like in the thousands. Oh well, maybe one day when you yeah finally, when make it big.
Speaker 1Could not explain that to my wife at all come on, it's cool and so, um, but like, uh, he is, it's. It's interesting because his like marco is like the runt almost he's portrayed as the runt of the litter. You know these vampires, and he's kind of portrayed as the newest, like, and the youngest, and um, obviously, when they decide, the frog brothers convince them that hey, we know what we're doing, and they go in there and they stab because he just gets the most um, that's right, they're asleep and he just stabs.
Speaker 1He gets the most traditional, like which is one of the best scenes and that they're shown sleeping upside down like bats and they have the feet. You know things like that in the cave and they go in and they stab them um and he gets the traditional stake to the heart. Like one of the best scenes, though, and it's kind of like i't know. I always look at it as like when you watch Empire Strikes Back and you pick up on Darth having some sort of connection to Boba Fett whether they intended that or not?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1You know, but there's all those kind of scenes where he stops. With him. No disintegration.
Speaker 2Right, it's world building without going overboard.
Speaker 1There's a lot of that with Marco and David, like Marco's pushing David around in the wheelchair they send Marco out for and all this stuff and Marco's the first to jump on the thing, like on the bridge, and so there's all this kind of idea that they're protective of Marco to a degree and that he's the new guy and it's amazing because when they kill Marco, obviously David Kiefer Sutherland chases him through and there's a scene where he can't chase him any further and it comes in and it pains on his face and he's crying.
Speaker 1And some people have always interpreted it as like oh, he just burned himself and he's crying. But I was like that would be a dumb yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2That would be dumb, that would show weakness.
Speaker 1That the pain, what it is, is like that I actually think they put the tears there because he just lost his friend right like they for a moment humanized the, the villain right that, like his, you know his best friend's just been murdered, and so I like that. There's just all this, really, bill and Ted. This is when we learned he's from the stage. Yeah, he was. He was a huge theater actor, and so I like it. I'm bringing you Tom Holland.
Speaker 2That's fair. It's Tom Holland. It's the little guy he's going to do well. He'll be that quiet reserve. You'll feel kind of bad when he dies. He's the fun one of the group. Everybody's having fun. He's a little brother.
Speaker 1They're gonna be devastated when, absolutely just yeah but see, even paul has a really great scene where the actor gets thought burst in the door and they and he says you killed marco you know like, and he's like, he's pissed you know and like. So it's. It kind of like marco's death is the one that like really pushes those vampires over to the edge into like ultra violence, like we're gonna go murder they go.
Speaker 1Yeah they go from being like we're just having fun to we're toying with all you and feel like now you're gonna die, you know, type of thing.
Speaker 2So okay, cory, I had three finalists to give you and I and the one, but I started with jared leto because he is just a vampire. He played a vampire last year, so we're gonna leave him alone, all right. The other two are ben foster young, ben foster dang and ethan embry cory oh, those are both good choices.
Speaker 1I went with Ethan Embry because it's his moment.
Speaker 2This is his period of time. Ben Foster is such a great character.
Speaker 1You're just adding to his run. Yeah, I'm adding to the run man.
Speaker 2Epic 90s run. Epic 90s run. Baby, I'm down Because he has the childish energy. He has a little bit of that crazy chaoticness to himself, but also the likability that we've seen in movies that he's been in previously. So when he does die, you're going to be like, oh no.
Speaker 1Why did they stab him first? Stab Paul or Dwayne? We don't like them, screw those guys. Yeah, no, I like that a lot actually, okay, okay okay so we're down to the top. I could have brought out Chalamet, but I didn't want to.
Speaker 2Chalamet, he, he doesn't have a little brother. He's a small whimsical boy, but he's not Tom Holland.
Speaker 1That's true. He doesn't have a little brother energy, that's true. Okay, so that brings us to David. David, or do you want to do Michael first?
Speaker 2Let's do, david. Let's just round out the vampires, just knock it out. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1All right, it's your party.
Speaker 2I'm actually going to give yeah, sure, it's the yin and yang, it's the fight for power.
Speaker 1It's like it's interesting because they never really tell you why they want michael yeah, it's just like again, these are just dudes left to their own devices. And they just said hey, we need a new member yeah, and here's this lost kid and so let's just take them, you know, there isn't a whole lot of you know they at the end they kind of try to like tie it in.
Speaker 1It's still like oh, max fell in love with the mom, and so I sent my boys to take your son and I figured you couldn't say no once you know type of thing which it's like.
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Speaker 2That's kind of well I think it's just it leans towards the end, leans into that whole vampire thing we talk about, like there's a there's always a certain amount of coding for like sexuality, for potentially like uh, homosexuality between vampires, like interview, the vampire clearly was just two gay vampire lovers, basically like you're talking about picking a partner, basically so like that's kind of the situation. They see something in him that they, like you, could even be outside of sexuality. It's just like, hey, he looks like he could be a great vampire, he could be an asset for us.
Speaker 1I like that they don't over-explain why Max? Is turning these teenage kids into vampires and all this stuff whether it's just for the mom or whatever, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2For or whatever it doesn't really matter For the anime fans out there. And I'm going to explain something to you really quick, corey. There's a story called Berserk and there's a dynamic kind of like this between the two main characters, guts and Griffith. Griffith is like this great leader type figure and he finds Guts and when he sees Guts he's like I have to have you. They don't dive into that very far, other than he just sees him as this, like he sees him fight and he's like I gotta have you on my team basically so it's, I kind of see it as that way.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, um, and it's all I mean. It's also just like taps into like, why did peter pan potentially keep kidnapping children?
Speaker 2yeah, he's alone. He's a mortal and he's alone, you know, type of thing and so um, but like so.
Speaker 1But I wanted to bring these two because I feel like traditionally they would probably be cast in the opposite roles, but I would prefer them in this role. Okay, so for David, I'm bringing you Zac Efron, and that's just because he recently dyed his hair blonde.
Speaker 2That's great, I'm in. You don't have to tell me anymore. Efron's in.
Speaker 1I want Zac Efron with the blonde bleached blonde hair. That's so good, but the dark you know kind of five o'clock shadow and bringing you jeremy allen white for michael okay I think traditionally they'd probably be cast opposite because jeremy allen white kind of plays darker characters yeah, exactly, typically plays hero characters. But I'm like, nah, let's reverse it okay, give me the bundy zach efron yeah, please one air, and then let jeremy allen white play the hero efron.
Speaker 2That efron casting is like on point that's, that's, that's great.
Speaker 1And I'm just now realizing they're both in the von eric movie. They are. It's a little bit of a reunion-reunion here, but whatever you had, tim Burton matchups.
Speaker 2You're bringing A-listers here, it's fine, it's all good. I kind of did the same thing. I had considered these two actors and I put them in initial roles and then I flipped it.
Speaker 1All right.
Speaker 2So for David, I initially thought I was going to go one way, but I'm giving you Freddie Prince Jr as David. I like it Because.
Speaker 1I actually like that a lot.
Speaker 2The temptation was I was like I'm going to make Freddie Prinze Jr Michael.
Speaker 1Yeah, because that would be the typical thing with him.
Speaker 2But we like we've talked about with like Breakfast Club before, like there's a part of Freddie Prinze Jr that we haven't got this really get to see fully on screen, that we know is there and we've seen in some smaller parts and stuff. Ok, so I'm giving you that and then for Michael, I'm so that's my pick. Yeah, robin, all right. Okay, we're going to get him to do a little bit more outside the batverse with other types of bats. He had an all right 90s run.
Speaker 1He had an okay 90s run. I would have assumed somewhere Paul Walker would have fallen on your list. Yeah, and I would have assumed somewhere that you would have tried to cram in Matthew Lillard.
Speaker 2I'm not as big on Matthew Lillard as you guys like, why? I mean I could see him as like a Paul or a Dwayne maybe. Yeah, he would be a fun vampire, just as a peripheral guy other than he trying to?
Speaker 1no, he'd be bad, he'd choose scenery that's my thing and the thing about the actors that played Paul Dwayne and Marcos they never choose it right?
Speaker 2yeah, you're terrified of them, but you don't know why. Yeah, yeah, you know they do. Just enough to like be characterized and not just be bland vampire.
Speaker 1they're not like chewing scenery. Paul's the closest. Lillard loves to chew his scenery. Yeah, he does, so I don't know if that would have worked.
Speaker 2But, but yeah, paul Walker, I guess you could have had him as David. Maybe I would have like.
Speaker 1I'm like thinking like when you said Freddie Prinze as David, I was like they would be switched. It would be Paul Walker as a David and Freddie as a Michael. Sure, but I like the idea of kind of making them go against typecasting. But no, Chris O'Donnell's good.
Speaker 2Yeah, what is it you think about Kiefer Sutherland's performance as David? That just keeps resonating these 40 years on now, almost.
Speaker 1I mean I hate saying it because I do love this movie and I don't want to sell it short I think the movies a lot of it is really just they captured such a really interesting aesthetic. I mean, obviously it's a vampire movie that isn't falling into the capes and the widow's peak and the stuff like that. It's just like, hey, here's what vampires would look like in the 80s.
Speaker 1But I think those particular four vampires. I own a book and it's a discontinued. It was just a goofy ass. What do they call that? Where you fund something? A crowdfunded? Book, yeah, yeah on the making of the lost boys and they like they spend a lot of time talking about, like the wardrobe okay and that the characters really put a lot into the world, like obviously marco was given his jacket yeah, the actor that played.
Speaker 1He's like oh, it's really cool, but I'm the one that said wouldn't it be cool if I had this kind of hair and, like you know, had extensions put?
Speaker 2in all this stuff.
Speaker 1And then, like david uh was supposed to just have like long blonde hair or something and he cut it into the mullet thing he has which is great because it just it stands out against any other vampire that you've seen, and they were like furious kind of when he showed up on set. But then like they were like let's go with it and so like I mean, what are the choice you got?
Speaker 1so I think, it has a lot to do with just like um, it is a subtlety, he kind of plays, plays kind of gothic vampire, because he never really loses his cool yeah, it's very, it's very dracula the whole time, sure um, but again, I think it's just all like it's a subtle performance rather than a big performance yeah, because he's very menacing the whole time.
Speaker 2There's a, there's a, but keifer does that so well. There's just a level of like you know, this guy could go unglued and it's also a natural off-puttingness by Kiefer Sutherland.
Speaker 1You know I mean if you look, he's an actor that's actually more than once been in movies with small roles, but like he does a lot with them, Stand by me.
Speaker 2You're terrified of him in Stand by Me. You're like I hope I never run.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, he's kind of become a hero ever since you know, and he's got a country band so like. But like that's the thing, Like I think it is just that, it's just like it's a subtlety and it's, you know, like I do think of him in A Few Good Men. He's only in like three scenes. Yeah, but it's like it's off-putting His character's just like oh, yes, yes, sir. And so I think that's what it is mainly.
Speaker 2Okay, Do you think you know Jason Patrick plays Michael. Just to wrap things up and talk about, like our quote unquote, leading man kind of guy. He never really took off after the 80s.
Speaker 1Well, he took off with Kiefer Sutherland's fiance on their wedding day.
Speaker 2Oh, is that what happened? Who's his fiance?
Speaker 1Julia Roberts. Is that who it was? Kiefer Sutherland was that. I didn't realize. Jason was the one, and she ran off with Jason Patrick. Oh my gosh. Apparently they're friends now, though. Jason Patrick gave her like that. That's good it happened. I think he's remarried. I forgot she was a literal runaway bride Like a literal runaway bride, but I didn't realize it was this guy from the same movie.
Speaker 2That's funny. But yeah, Jason Patrick, he didn't did he do much out. So what's what's his, what's his claims to fame? He's got narc speed to the losers.
Speaker 1That came out in 2010 he made an incredible movie called sleepers. He's in terrifier 3 he's in terrifier 3.
Speaker 2Funnily, he's named michael.
Speaker 1Well, I mean like that's. I mean like a lot of these dudes end up like when their main claim to fame's horror they end up just being you know cameos and they run and they do those cons.
Speaker 2What were you?
Speaker 1saying before I interrupted you, but like he's in a movie called Sleepers, which is really good. That's a massive Sleepers is this weird movie that went under the?
Speaker 2radar it did. I'd always seen it, but I never.
Speaker 1It's one of the best movies.
Speaker 2I've ever seen, and the cast you've got it's Brad.
Speaker 1Pitt it's. Jason Patrick it's.
Speaker 2Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman, de Niro. Kevin Bacon, kevin Bacon, kevin.
Speaker 1Bacon in absolutely his most vile role viral but you hate kevin.
Speaker 2Okay, but it's essentially a driver, many drivers.
Speaker 1Bruno kirby and so uh, uh, uh, what's the one dude I like?
Speaker 2brad renfrow no uh, jonathan tucker no uh, vittorino, it seemed like the mission impossible movies like oh, jean played russell hammond in almost famousous oh, russell Hammond yeah, almost Famous actor, it's fine, we're just Googling live Billy Crudup. Billy Crudup's in Okay, yeah, he's in Sleepers, it's one of his early movies.
Speaker 1But, like I mean, it's just about these kids that accidentally hurt a hot dog vendor when they steal his cart and they end up in a reformatory for boys and get raped by the guards and like I mean repeatedly sexually abused for years, and then when they get out, like you know they're, they have all this post-traumatic stress two of them grow up like well, two of them grow up to be kind of normal, to grow up to be in gang like a gang, like they become violent criminals okay and they run into the guard yeah uh to, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1I'm on this movie now about we're on a vampire, but like people need to see this movie and they run into one of the guards that raped them as adults and they just murder them in cold blood, like in a room full of people. And Brad Pitt turns out. He's a lawyer, okay, and he sees this as like a Count Amati Cristo revenge thing.
Speaker 1He said there's no record that we were ever in that school with those two guys. And and he goes to Jason Patrick and says we can expose everything and we need to get these two friends off of murder. You know, because they'd grown apart, and so it's this whole massively cool, convoluted thing.
Speaker 2Very dark, but very interesting.
Speaker 1Oh, it's a phenomenal movie and everybody's just acting at their highest.
Speaker 2It's so good. So that's what he did.
Speaker 1That's a low note to end on, but another movie to potentially watch.
Lost Boys Cast Discussion
Speaker 2That is what Jason Patrick did. I added Sleepers and Count of Monte Cristo to my list here. I forgot about that movie. But yeah, that's your cast. Finally, we finally have a Lost Boys cast for Corey you can send us a Lost Boys cast recap.
Speaker 1I'm just not gonna read it. I will read it and I'll just tell Corey be like.
Speaker 2You won't like it.
Speaker 1I just this movie's near and dear to me so I don't want to go home and watch it right now.
Speaker 2But you can tell us how you thought about it, what you thought about our cast. If you hated them, loved them, I'll. I'll look at it and I'll just. I just won't show cory, because he'll get upset, I want to fight you or talk about it on threads maybe yeah, I will fight you on threads, but you can find us on all those social media places like instagram, facebook's uh threads we're on there as well.
Speaker 2twitter x uh at quantum recast. Just hop on there, shoot us a message, follow us there for more episodes and stuff like that, but that's our tag there, and then you can donate a dollar a month to us for our Patreon, just to help keep the engine running the lights on for the podcast. But beyond that, those are all the house cleaning rules, corey. Do you have anything else about vampires?
Speaker 1No, if you've never seen Lost Boys, do yourself a favor, just go watch it, it's so good. It's a blast even if you don't like 80s movies, it's not like, it's not super, I mean okay it's pretty.
Speaker 2It's pretty. 80s let's, let's be real here. That's.
Speaker 1That's half the reason you like it I'm just saying, when you get to the guy with the saxophone and you're we didn't talk about the guy with the saxophone and you want to turn it off.
Speaker 2Just power through, man. Why I'm not? I'm not mad about it, I'm glad it's there, but why? Why did it? Let's just get this buff guy with a saxophone and just have him blast a scene covered in baby. It's like someone watched return of the jedi and said I'll do you one better for music. Scenes of the villains it's.
Speaker 1The only thing I'm upset about with the saxophone guy is that he never comes back into the movie well, you know at some point.
Speaker 2You want him showing up and killing a vampire, or to be revealed as a vampire it would have been very, it would have been very dusk till dawn for him to be a vampire like the band in that.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh, it would be. You just wanted more from him.
Speaker 2That's true, that's all, that's fair.
Speaker 1But I also should note that I love the opening scene of this movie. I think it's a strong opening scene.
Speaker 2That's fair.
Speaker 1It's one of the couples in the car making out the vampires. Come and get them.
Speaker 2It's very Jaws. The vampires are actually revealed.
Speaker 1They're not actually revealed until kind of late in the movie, when they kill a bunch of surf Nazis.
Speaker 2They're kind of good Surf Nazis. As we know, surf Nazis must die. Last thoughts just here. Joel Schumacher movie.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Unexpected, but kind of no. No, he's a.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think it was originally going to be Richard Donner, okay, and then Donner became a producer and Schumacher took over Gotcha gotcha, but it fits in his catalog for sure, this is how you follow up St Elmo's Fire.
Speaker 2With Lost Boys, yeah.
Speaker 1Schumacher has two of my favorite films.
Speaker 2You're a Schumacher guy Like in my top four, man Corey, and if you're really honest, there's three in there.
Speaker 1What like Batman Forever, batman and Robin? Come on, come on, you know it to be true. I don't knock those movies. I think they're great Phone.
Schumacher's Influence on Vampire Movies
Speaker 2Booth. 8mm was a dark movie, and then Phantom of the Opera he did that.
Speaker 1Yeah, Schumacher's incredible. He did Time to Kill. He made so many great movies. A lot of good stuff in there.
Speaker 2Schumacher was awesome yeah.
Speaker 1Just wanted to give him a little shout out there.
Speaker 2He did didn't he.
Speaker 1Yeah, but that's why I think this was originally going to be a Goonies-type movie.
Speaker 2It was supposed to be a family like vampires, but with Peter Pan type of thing which is funny, because you got Schumacher and he made a dark movie from a kids' movie, and then you go 10 years later and this dude takes a dark movie and makes it a kids' movie. My how the turntables.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know right, McDonald's. We're not selling enough happy meals with.
Speaker 2Burton, look at that guy who made the vampire movie back in the 80s.
Speaker 1He knows his family shtick well that's our final thoughts on Lost Boys. It's incredible watch it, it'll change your life changed ours, changed mine, alright, well, thanks for listening. Say goodnight, nick.