We’re fans of the 80s popcorn classics here on HeyUGuys, and keep a rose-tinted eye on what Corey Feldman and his fellow Goonies are up to now and again. Yesterday we found that a double dose of ‘The’ Feldman was heading our way with two very distinct projects on the go.

The first is some reality show with some fancy ice-skating which goes by the name of Dancing on Ice in which throws some long lost stars of TV and film converge to pull on the blades and gambol around winning hearts and encouraging the masses to vote for them.

All of which is leading me to this picture…

You’re welcome.

So be sure to tune in to ITV for watch the whole shebang, or if goresoaked horror is more your thing then check out the new trailer for Corey F’s latest film, which is entitled Six Degrees of Hell from director Joe Raffa which has the following for a synopsis,

Six people and their lives are stitched together by a supernatural force that has laid claim to one of them. A Halloween haunted establishment is ground zero for a paranormal perfect storm inadvertently touched off by a seemingly random series of events.

The trailer isn’t embeddable and contains things NSFW including Extended Clown Horror, Zombie Nudity and Smoking.

Click here to see the trailer for Six Degrees of Hell

Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for the heads up.

On the 3rd and 4th of September Future Cinema unveiled their latest movie happening with screenings of The Lost Boys and Top Gun in central London, and we were invited along to take in the sights, sounds and strange people as Santa Carla came to Canary Wharf, those damn vampires and all.

Ali Madconald reports for HeyUGuys

As a film buff and big fan of the 80’s classics I blush to say that I realized recently that I had never actually watched “The Lost Boys”, luckily the Future Cinema event in Canary Wharf last night was everything we have come to expect from these creative giants.

We were met by a massive fairground with a carousel, bumper cars and candy stalls. Everyone of the 4000 strong crowd was dressed up, some with bloody faces, vampire teeth, strings of garlic around their necks and 80’s Ray Bans.

You had to fight yourself around all of the queues in this open air space (This was my only criticism of the night, for such a great and inspiring event they had got some of the basics wrong with 1 hour long queues for toilets, burgers and hotdogs,) but if you overlook this, the level of detail for this event was staggering.

The bar was themed, there were characters everywhere, motorbikes being revved and driven around the punters, classic cars with guitar playing chicks, dens filled with vampires eating Chinese takeaway, horses in a paddock and even a beach volleyball area.

All very impressive but for someone who has never seen the film none of it made any sense and when we stumbled upon real life taxidermy classes with animal carcasses being pined to tables it all seemed very extreme.

That was until we sat down on the sand of the volleyball court, squeezed between excited fans singing The Lost Boys theme “Cry Little Sister” and started watching the film on its giant screen. Suddenly every little detail made sense, the fairground, the comic book shop, the motorbikes, the vampires and yes, even the taxidermy.

Thank you to Air New Zealand for inviting us to this fantastic event. What a great way to watch this 1987 classic for the first time. The atmosphere was brilliant and as all us thousands of vampires spilled out on to the streets under the massive Canary Wharf buildings and made our way home we all felt like “ fighters for truth, justice, and the American way” just like Edgar Frog.

Perennial 80’s star Corey Feldman has been talking about Lost Boys: The Thirst, the second sequel to the 1987 classic, and the future of the teen vampire series.

Talking to MovieWebb, Feldman seems to be the sole figure (particularly after the death of previous co-star Corey Haim earlier this year)  spearheading the return of the franchise and after only a two year gap between ‘Thirst’ and the first sequel (Lost Boys: The Tribe) he’s interesting in jumping aboard again if the market for yet another sequel is there.

“Next time around hopefully we can incorporate even more stuff that I was looking to get in. I definitely don’t want to be going backwards so I want to make sure that each time we do it, if we are going to do it again, its got to be bigger and better than the last one.”

Feldman should focus his energy on getting behind a sequel to The Goonies (which is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary with a re-release on Blu-ray on DVD). I’m sure the idea of finding out what happened to the inhabitants of The Goon Docks following the decades since their discovery of One-Eyed Willy would prove a more interesting prospect than yet another DTV retread of The Lost Boys.

What do you think?

When news came out back in 2008 that a sequel to the classic 80s movie, The Lost Boys was going to be made, mixed opinions started to form as to whether it was a good idea and whether it would be any good.  It was a straight to DVD release and when I saw Lost Boys: The Tribe, it made an OK movie but didn’t have the originality that the first movie did. We we knew that would happen didn’t we?

Dread Central have now debuted the trailer for the third installment of the Lost Boys franchise, this time called Lost Boys: The Thirst which sees 80s legend, Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog back to fight the vampire once again, this time ably assisted by his brother Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) who we saw in the first movie.

From this new trailer, it looks like an OK movie which has the potential to be better than the second but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I would bet my bottom dollar than this movie will be made in honour of Corey Haim who sadly died earlier this year. You’ll remember him from the original The Lost Boys movie playing the lead role as Sam.

Lost Boys: The Thirst also stars Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Seb Catang, Tanit Phoenix and is directed by Dario Piana.

Synopsis: When veteran vampire hunter Edgar Frog finds himself destitute and almost friendless, he thinks his life has hit bottom – but wealthy vampire-romance novelist Gwen Liebling offers him a small fortune to go on the vampire hunt of a lifetime and rescue her son Peter from the Alpha Vampire D.J.Dusk. With the help of his friends Zoe, Lars, and Blake, Edgar heads into a bloody battle to exterminate evil.

This is really not good news at all. TMZ are reporting that HeyUGuys favourite has died of an overdose at the age of 38.

Haim shot to fame in the 1987 movie The Lost Boys and it was his relationship with fellow LB actor Corey Feldman which followed him through his life.

They were poster boys of the 80s generation, and teamed on License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream and while they both returned in an easter egg at the end of The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe the lasting memory most of us will have of Haim is as one of the Santa Carla Vampire Hunters.

Haim was recently seen in Crank: High Voltage and there was always a solid foundation of nostalgics who would keep an eye on his career, and most of those people were no doubt looking forward to the next two Lost Boys movies, no matter how bad they would have been it would have been great to see those two back together (albeit on different sides…).

I had this same feeling during the John Hughes Oscars Tribute, and we’ve discussed it on our podcast, when someone dies – someone who inspired us on some level to love film as much as we do – it will always affect us deeply. No matter where Corey Haim’s career went after The Lost Boys the fact that we loved watching him in that film, a film which made up part of our childhood, will always stay with us. Their work, even one great film we loved, will stay with us and that’s to be celebrated.

And yes, our views on him may be clouded with nostalgia, but I’m fine with that and I know I’ll be watching The Lost Boys again tonight.

Here’s a scene from the original..

And another from the sequel (Spoilers ahoy)

Yes, you read that right – Lost Boys 4…

Despite a critical mauling it received the Lost Boys sequel subtitled The Tribe released last year did well enough to warrant a third film in the series, which you can read about here.

It seems we’re overrun with vampire franchises these days, and certainly each generation reinvents the myth and twenty years ago we had the seminal 80s flick The Lost Boys, and thanks to the lure of the nostalgia market we’ll be seeing a Lost Boys film every year from now until the end of time.

So says MovieWeb, who in their conversations with Messrs Haim and Feldman, confirmed that while Haim wont’ be joining Feldman’s Edgar Frog in LB 3 he will return to reunite the team in the fourth film, though with a difference (which keen viewers of Lost Boys 2 will know about).

This is perfect news for the first birthday of HeyUGuys as it exemplifies where the industry is in terms of walking the fine line between continuing great stories and characters from the past and the shameless ransacking of our faded memories of franchises for cash.

We love the films we grew up with and we take our name from one of our favourites, we’ll keep a keen, though cynical eye on these films.

It’s that time of year again.  The pumpkins are out, the leaves are turning colors, the air is brisk and chilly.  It’s time for the spooky stories, the frightening films, the maybe not so scary but at times certainly inventive costumes and that most important element…..candy corn.  Yes folks, Halloween season is upon us once again.

My yearly tradition on All Hallows Eve is to hole up in my house, turn off all the lights and settle in to a nice good ole fashioned Horror movie.  What other way to celebrate right?  I figured this would be the perfect time to run down a list movies that fit this time of year perfectly.  Let’s run them down by letter shall we?

H - Starting with the obvious,  Halloween.  John Carpenter’s fright fest with a score so simple, it’s frightening….literally.  Laurie Strode agrees to babysit on the scariest night of the year.  Little does she know what Halloween has in store for her.

The original version still holds up and I still get goose bumps when I hear that infamous tune start to play.  One of the freakiest scenes was after Laurie thinks she has bested Michael Meyers.  We see Laurie in the foreground, and Michael laying flat in the background.  Just when we think we can take a breath, we see Michael sit up straight.  I have two thoughts that run through my head each time I see this scene. 1) Tony Moran has amazing core muscles, and 2)Why did she stick around…get out…get out of the house!  Jamie Lee Curtis was great as babysitter Laurie.  She was able to make you feel her fear and make you jealous of her pipes all in the same scene.  She didn’t earn the moniker The Scream Queen for nothin’ folks.

A – The Amityville Horror (1979 & 2005)
Starting with the 1979 version starring Margo Kidder and James Brolin as a newly married couple who find, buy and move into their dream house.  Of course the house was witness to a heinous crime and the evil that lurks there starts to wreak havoc on the poor unsuspecting Lutz family.  The standout here was James Brolin.  His transformation from loving husband and father to evil, mad husband and father is subtle, but effective.  Moving over to the remake, or rebake, I should say.  The 2005 version was rebaked to a nice medium rare.  It was easy to chew on, and I enjoyed it.  The casting of Ryan Reynold in Brolin’s role was interesting but he showed his chops and made it his own.  The real star, after thinking about it, is the house itself.  That house gives me the creeps just looking at pictures of it.  It’s freaky!  I would never go there…..ever.   The standout scene in the 2005 version is when the priest comes to bless the house.  He ends up locked in a room with a swarm of flies.  I believe his last line of dialogue is “Your house scares me”.  Buddy, you’re not joking….it scares me too.

The orignal had the stigma attached to it that the story was based on actual events.  It came out several years ago, that it was in fact fiction and the events that transpired in the house didn’t actually happen.  Both films still have the ability to leave you a bit restless.

L – The Lost Boys (1987)
Ok, so not so much a “horror” film, but it has Vampires.  And that is always a good thing.  Michael and Sam are brothers who, with their divorced mother, move to the coastal town of Santa Carla.  Things from strange to freaky when Michael gets mixed up with bad seeds of the town.   Michael finds himself walking the fine line between human and vampire and Sam tries to help get his brother back by enlisting the help of the Frog brothers. 

Comedy ensues, and vampire guts fly.  Death by stereo was invented.  And as far as I’m concerned, anything with Keifer Sutherland, is bound to rock.  This is a Vampire film made for an MTV Generation.

L – Last House on the Left (2009)
I have to go with the remake on this one since I’ve never seen the original.  I know I know, bad Tracy!  I went to see one because my Aunt called in a marker.  I drag her to a load of crap movies, so this was her pick.  I came out surprised.

After a family tragedy, Mari Collingwood goes to spend the summer with her parents at their summer home.  After visiting with a friend in town, Mari gets caught up with nasty group of people.  Violence, trauma, death, the usual stuff ensues.  Tony Goldwin and Monica Potter play Ma and Pa Collingwood and the leader of the bad guys is the stellar Garret Dillahunt.  You may not know the name, but you’ll know him when you see him.   This film has plenty of jumps and couple of parts that made my jaw hit the floor.  Not so much in the horror veins as the other films on this list, but it has just enough of that uneasy feeling to warrant a mention.

O -The Others (2001)
“I am your daughter!” Oh how I love saying that to my mom.  And she gets it, which makes it even better.  Having seen the movie with her, I pull out that line when appropriate.  The Others, starring Nicole Kidman as a wife and mother who is trying to raise her kids while her husband if off fighting in the Civil War.  Her kids have a condition where they can’t be exposed to sunlight, and loud noises bother them.  This film is typical, with the suspense and creepy factor.  I mean, the movie has Fionnula Flanagan in it.  And that woman knows how to serve up some creepy. 

There is a bit of a twist which I’m ashamed to say I didn’t see coming.  I’m normally quite good and spotting those kinds of things.  Perhaps I just wasn’t paying attention.  Anyway, if you watch it alone, with all the lights off and you start to hear noises, I would say one might be a bit unnerved.  I think I’ll call my mom right now and tell her once again that I am, indeed, her daughter.  It gets an eye-roll, but her response to this is nothing compared to her response to my next entry.

W -The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I know. You’re scratching your head thinking “what the hell is she thinking??”.  Wizard of Oz isn’t a horror movie!  I beg to differ.  This movie has been dishing the creep my entire life and then some.  A green witch hell bent on revenge!  Flying evil monkeys! Lions and tigers and bears oh my! Flying evil monkeys!  All of that is downright scary stuff.

Dorothy and her little dog get caught up in a tornado and ends up taking the yellow brick road trip of a lifetime with a couple of high maintenance companions.  You’ve seen it, you know the story.  You must also see the creepy too right?
Not to bring my mom into this again but, she hates this movie.  With a passion.  So of course, every time  it’s on TV,  I call her and tell her to flip it to whatever channel, which then leads to about 3 minutes of cursing in my ear.  Then I giggle and hang up.  It’s not nice, but it’s fun.  I watched this so much as a kid, I’ll probably never watch it again.  The thought of it creeps me out.

E – The Entity (1981)
Even though it’s been ages since I’ve seen this one, I can still recall certain scenes and they still freak me out a bit.  Barbara Hershey is Carla Moran.  A single mother who finds that the nighttime visits she is being paid, isn’t coming from a friendly, or human for that matter, source.  Carla finds herself the focal point of an entity that forces itself on her continuously.  Thinking that she is going mad, she enlists the help of a paranormal research team.  After a plan to rid Carla of her attacker goes awry, but seems to work, Carla and her family bail from the house they were living in to start fresh.  At the end Carla still experiences the attacks but with less frequency.  Pretty messed up right?  Word on the street is that this film is based on actual events and experiences of the main character. 

Given the subject matter, it’s probably not a proper movie for a youngster to watch….which is exactly what I was when I saw it on HBO.  Anything that says it’s based on fact, or actual events, or inspired by true events shines like a beacon to me.  I’m instantly curious and must see it.  Call it morbid curiosity I guess.  I don’t have a particular need to re-watch this one however.  Just the thought of it being based on fact is enough to give me goosebumps!

E -The Exocist (1973)
Growing up I never had any restrictions about what I was allowed to watch.  As evidenced by my previous entry.  The Exocist was the one film that was forbidden.  I asked and asked and begged and pleaded with my mom to let me watch it.  Every time I got a stern look followed by “ABSOLUTELY NOT!”  It wasn’t until I was 18 and legally an adult, although still living at home with mom, that I brought it home from work.  She asked me what movie I rented and I proudly stated “The Exorcist!” After enduring another stern look, she turned around and walked out of the room leaving me to my scare fest.  After watching poor little Regan turn into something evil and do some not so nice things with a crucifix, I understood my mom’s reluctance. 

I actually didn’t think the film was super scary either.  Even though I may never look at pea soup the same way again.  I guess the issue here was that since it was so forbidden, I had it built up in my head that this was the movie that I was going to lose sleep over, and I felt a little bit let down.  Several years later when it was re-released in the theaters, I went with a boat load of friends and felt the effect to a greater degree.  Seeing Regan do that crazy spider walk down the stairs on the big screen genuinely freaked me out.

N – Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
1, 2, Freddie’s comin’ for you……3, 4, better lock your door…..5,6, grab a crucifix…7,8 gonna stay up late…..9,10 never sleep again.
Freddie Kruger.  The best villain of the 80′s horror movies.  He was so much more effective than Jason or Michael Myers.  I attribute it to the fact that Freddie had a quality that the others didn’t…..personality.  Freddie was such a menacing figure, but he terrorized with panache.   And you have to give kudos to Robert Englund for pulling that off.  Freddie runs around and wreaks havoc on the kids whose parents yanked him out of the living gene pool years prior.  The twist, he’s offing these kids by way of their dreams.  Nancy is the one smart teenager who puts it all together and fights Freddie to the bitter end. 

The remake is currently in post production with Jackie Earle Haley donning the infamous striped sweater.  I think it’s a perfect fit, no pun intended.  I recently watched the trailer and got a bit excited for it, so hopefully it’ll do the original justice.  Whether or not they decide to continue on with the sequels is anybody’s guess.  I stopped watching after Dream Warriors.  It just got plain silly after that.  I was impressed with Wes Craven’s New Nightmare however.  I thought that was an interesting spin on the story.  Nightmare is a must see for anyone who digs the scary movies.  When this film came out, it was a rare occasion where you simultaneously laughed and screamed at the same time.  Good ole Freddie just had that effect on people.

Well folks, that sums up my list.  I hope I’ve given you all some ideas on what movie you’re going to watch on Halloween.  So go get your loved one, hunker down and grab a wubie, turn off the lights and put in your favorite scary movie.  That’s exactly what I’ll be doing on October 31st.  Let us know what scary movies you love and why in the comments.