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Quackcast 711 - Lost Boys

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2024

tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Lost Boys, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 711, Tantz Aerine, The Deadlys ReVamped, The Side Characters, Webcomics hosting

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Halloween is on the way and we always do something different for it. This time we're doing a commentary for the 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys! We even dressed in Lost Boys themed outfits for the Patreon vid which we will make available to ALL Patrons (even free ones), as a treat.

The Lost Boys is an interesting comedy horror vampire film, it distils a LOT of really big 1980s style trends and yet it doesn't seem old fashioned or twee because it takes the viewer to the era and accepts you rather than keeping you at a distance as an outsider. You see punks, the surfer beach culture, metal-heads, new romantics and more. It's just a great showcase and super exaggeration of the styles.

The movie starts off with the awesome Cry Little Sister theme by Gerard McMann which is 80s but also has a timeless creepy gothic feel, it's the perfect intro to the movie, setting the slightly edgy, creepy tone and coolness factor at the same time. But it also contains the perfect summary of the theme of film to come. McMann wrote the song after reading the script rather than seeing the film so he was able to get at the central things that are easy to miss with all the cool visuals: it's a film about families and loyalty. Two families compete for survival, one are the Emersons who have just moved to Santa Clara to be with their grandpa, the patriarch, the other is the vampire clan led by its patriarch. The vampire clan wants to absorb the Emersons, starting with the oldest son Michael, but youngest Sam doesn't want that to happen! Cry Little Sister is from the perspective of the Vamps alone though while the film is from the perspective of the Emersons.

This is a fun, stylish movie and we had a lot of fun watching it all over again and doing this reaction cast! Comics even have a prominent place in the film with the vampire slaying Frog brothers working at a comic shop and using comics as a way of bonding with Sam as well as finding out how to deal with the vampires. Have a listen and maybe go and watch the movie again.
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This week Gunwallace has given us a Halloween sounding theme inspired by The Deadlys ReVamped - Haunting, hollow, creepy intro into a rather more friendly and charming old house with a lovely friendly, ghostly party going on… till you find out that everybody there is dead and you’re all alone amongst these fleeting apparitions who fade away, leaving the house dark and desolate once more!

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Great music from Lost Boys:
Cry Little Sister - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMLMV6E4CM
I Still Believe Tim Capello - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXuuxnp08o

Featured comic:
The Side Characters - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2024/oct/22/featured-comic-the-side-characters/

Featured music:
The Deadlys ReVamped - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Deadlys_ReVamped/ - by Paneltastic, rated T..

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Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
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Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/

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Ozoneocean at 7:02PM, Oct. 29, 2024

@Jaso- hahaha! How else would we have known how cool Michael was unless they didn't ram home the Jim Morrison comparison LOL

Ozoneocean at 7:00PM, Oct. 29, 2024

@Marchy, Time Cappello puts it on another level LOL! The skit of him on SNL by John Hamm is amazing lol!

Ozoneocean at 6:59PM, Oct. 29, 2024

@Paul- it's worth it!

@Marco- yup hahaha a weird Peter Pan thing LOL! What is Peter really was a vamp? Hmmm...

Ozoneocean at 6:58PM, Oct. 29, 2024

@Bravo- I'd actually like to see a serious version of it... Though I LOVE the real one. Those two lines are perfect for the film.

Ozoneocean at 6:56PM, Oct. 29, 2024

Thanks for the compliment on the pic guys <3 ^_^

kawaiidaigakusei at 5:50PM, Oct. 29, 2024

Cheers for The Lost Duck Boys cover image.

Banes at 9:10AM, Oct. 29, 2024

That image is incredible, Oz! Love it!

marcorossi at 8:23AM, Oct. 29, 2024

Now, after probably 34 years after when I watched "Lost Boys", I finally realize the title is a reference to Peter Pan. Whopsie!

Jason Moon at 8:17AM, Oct. 29, 2024

I thought it was funny how the Vampires had that Jim Morrison poster on the wall in their underground den. But I suppose it could have been left there since it was a hotel that slid underground. It was wild how the little vampire that they killed when the vamps were sleeping was Bill from "Bill and Ted." Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric played well off of each other.

bravo1102 at 7:01AM, Oct. 29, 2024

@marcorossi; the bugs scene! Really hard for me because it was my favorite Chinese food; Lo Mein noodles. I actually got hungry. July 1987, I was freshly graduated from college, just moved out of the house and had a job and a new girl friend. And saw this expecting a typical horror vampire fest and got this trendy and funny movie and loved it. Bought the soundtrack and once on cable would watch the hell out of it.

Marchy_D at 6:35AM, Oct. 29, 2024

Cheesy, muscled, saxophone player aside, lol...it's a great flick from the 80's!

PaulEberhardt at 4:45AM, Oct. 29, 2024

Gotta watch this one! I've got the impression I'll love it.

marcorossi at 4:34AM, Oct. 29, 2024

I remember that movie! I watched it when I was around 14 I think and I was mostly shocked by the bugs scene (I hate bugs).

Tantz_Aerine at 2:15AM, Oct. 29, 2024

This is an epic Newspost Image Oz!

bravo1102 at 12:26AM, Oct. 29, 2024

Some of the best lines ever. "The blood sucking Brady Bunch!" "One thing living in Santa Carla I could never quite stomach, all the damn vampires " Actually has an interesting making of back story too, how they felt the whole teen proto-emo thing was too much and decided to add the comedy. There was an extremely forgettable remake that went full serious and was unwatchable. I just kept wanting the Frog brothers to show up.