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Vampires as Southern California teen-age bikers is the theme of this entry
in the late-eighties vampire genre. A great soundtrack, sincere
performances, a hip screenplay and slick direction moves this story along at
a winged pace. Kiefer Sutherland's first big screen role is a juicy one as
the bike-gang leader vampire David, who uses human-turned-vampire beauty
Star (Jami Gertz) to lure Michael (a young Jason Patric) to their beachfront
cave lair and to trick Michael into drinking from a wine bottle full of
David's blood. As Michael begins a gradual transformation into a creature of
the night, his brother Sammy (Corey Haim) realizes what is going on and
enlists the aid of Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison
Newlander), the hilarious and "fearless" duo of teenage vampire hunters who
run the Santa Carla boardwalk comic book store for their zoned-out hippie
parents. The Frog brothers and Sammy sneak into the lair during daylight,
stake vampire Marco (Alex Winter, Bill from Bill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure), rescue Star and child vampire Laddie (Chance Michael Corbitt)
and retreat to Mike and David's grandfather's house to await an attack that
evening. The vampires invade the house. Sammy's dog Nanook pushes one
vampire into a bathtub full of holy water and garlic while Sammy impales
another to his stereo with an arrow through the heart. Both vampires explode
gruesomely. David and Michael have a flying battle in the living room and
Michael impales David on a pair of wildebeest antlers in Grandpa's workshop.
When Sammy and David's mom Lucy (Dianne Wiest) return home with video
storeowner Max (Edward Herrmann), we learn that Max is actually the head
vampire. When Michael invited Max into the house for a dinner date with Lucy
earlier in the film, they lost all power to detect his true identity. Max
wanted David to turn both Sammy and Michael into vampires so Lucy would be
his consort. Just as Max is going to bite Lucy, Grandpa (Barnard Hughes)
drives his jeep that is covered with sharpened fence posts through the
living room patio doors. One of the fence post skewers Max, destroying him
and restoring Michael, Star and Laddie to humanity. Grandpa goes to the
fridge, takes out a root beer and says to his stunned family, "One thing
about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damned vampires."
Thanks, Evil Ed!
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