Corey Feldman: The “Lost Boy” is Back!

Before “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and Twilight there was the film The Lost Boys, which helped establish vampires as cool, scary and exciting all at the same time.The movie, which followed two Arizonan brothers who moved to California and fought off a gang of teenage vampires, was edgy enough to appeal to teens and continues to impress young people of today with its classic story. Now there is a sequel out on DVD and Blu-Ray Lost Boys: The Thirst.

At New York Comic Con, TeenHollywood got to chat with one of the stars of the original film, Corey Feldman about how his strand of hair represents his journey of survival while filming in Africa, the eeriness of shooting the film without his friend, the original film’s recently deceased co-star Corey Haim, the promising future of the The Lost Boys franchise and how he gets dates on FaceBook.

TeenHollywood: Okay, I have to comment on the strand of hair. It looks so cool and unique.What inspired this new look for you?

Corey Feldman: The strand represents both Edgar Frog (his character) and Corey.For me it’s about being a lone soldier and survival.I spent two months in Africa filming on my own and disconnected from family and everything.I literally lost seven people dear to me; Michael Jackson, my grandfather, several close friends, a divorce and Corey and I were separated at that time.I felt isolated.

All these people I lost in the last year helped shape and identify who I was to the public.When people think of Michael Jackson and Corey [Haim] they think of me.Now I have to stand alone so the emotion in the film is very genuine.Even though I had to cut my hair and return to normal life I wanted keep the strand because it represents that time of being alone and unified as one.When Corey died shortly after, it was even more reason to keep it around.

TeenHollywood: Is it difficult for you to now watch those scenes where you visit the gravesite of Corey’s character?

Corey: It’s hard for me. Not only was he a brother to me—I think we cut ourselves at one point and did the blood brother thing—but he’s a celebrity.Every time I walk down the street somebody who is trying to be nice says hey man sorry about your friend.I appreciate the kind gesture but when I go out I don’t want to think about his death every time I walk out the door.So it’s really hard.

Sometimes I think I have this great idea that Corey and I could do and it’s hard to know we can’t create that magic again.It was always a career fall back.If going through a slouch I could call up Corey and we will come up with an idea and do something together and get everybody excited all over again. He even had a trilogy idea for License to Drive, and wrote a thirty page treatment.We were going to set that up at 20th Century Fox but that will never happen now.

TeenHollywood: You started your career in the ‘80’s when there were no social networking sites for celebrities so are you active on FaceBook and Twitter now?

Corey: Yes.When we announced this new event with Live Nation and Warner Brothers my friend at Live Nation said you better be on Twitter to promote this thing.So I now have a Twitter account.In the ‘80’s the image of the celebrity world was smoke and mirrors.We wanted stars that were unattainable but now it’s about who is the most real.So I have a blog, FaceBook, and a MySpace to reach as many people as I can. It’s a pain in the a** but I love the direct response of fans.I’ve even been lucky enough to get a couple dates out of FaceBook.

Lost Boys: The Thirst is available now on DVD and Blu-Ray