I finally watched Lost Boys - The Tribe and I have a complaint. How come Corey Feldman gets to change the rules when it come to killing vampires?

To be fair, it’s not him it’s his character named “Edgar Frog,” which seems to fit Feldman’s face for some reason (not trying to be mean, just an observation). He tells Chris Emerson (our hero, supposedly related to Sam and Michael Emerson from the first film) that you don’t need wood to kill a vampire, only a sharp object or even possibly a blunt object (like a pipe). Apparently as long as it goes through the heart, the vampire will die.

This is because in an earlier scene Chris throws a sex-crazed girl with fangs onto some deer antlers (the deer wasn’t alive, it was a head mounted on the wall–but that would have made a cool scene to stake a vampire on a live deer).

I’ll have to rewatch the original Lost Boys to see if not using wooden stakes was important or not. As I recall there may have been deer antlers involved in that one too.

I didn’t mind so much when Anne Rice decided that crosses weren’t effective in her book series The Vampire Chronicles (curiously she has now converted to Christianity so maybe she’ll rethink her position), but when a straight to DVD sequel featuring one of the Coreys rewrites the rules I’m starting to get a little annoyed.

Vampire killing rules should evolve, not be eliminated. Otherwise what makes vampires any different then humans? Or what makes vampires different from other supernatural creatures?

I completely understand from a writer’s perspective if someone wants to do a reinterpretation of vampire myths. Lost Boys is not a reinterpretation, it’s a cheap B movie. This wooden stake dismissal was lazy thinking in my opinion. They didn’t get rid of any other pop culture myths like Frog using the cross or holy water.

We are, however, strictly talking about the pop culture rules of vampire killing. If you read history there are conflicting myths on the art of killing vampires.  I think it was just Corey Feldman telling me wooden stakes weren’t necessary that bothered me. Hopefully in a second sequel he puts something pointy into Corey Haim–not that, you know what I mean.

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