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Plot Summary:
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When a recently divorced mother and her two teenage boys move to a coastal town to stay with her father, it doesn't take long for the brothers to realize the area is a haven for something much more sinister than party-going surfers. |
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Cast: (First 20, for the rest click 'Show All Cast & Crew' below.)
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Special Effects Department:
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- Makeup Effects Laboratories Inc.
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Stage 12, Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank Studios, Burbank, California, USA [interiors]
- Stage 15, Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank Studios, Burbank, California, USA [interiors]
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $8,500,000
- Revenue:
- $32,222,567
- Color Info:
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Color (Technicolor)
- Laboratory:
- Technicolor
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Panavision
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm / 70 mm
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Quotes:
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David: Michael wants to know what's going on. Marco, what's going on?
Marko: I don't know. What's going on, Paul?
Paul: Wait a minute. Who wants to know?
Dwayne: Michael wants to know.
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Grandpa: Second shelf is mine. That's where I keep my rootbeers and my double-thick Oreo cookies. Nobody touches the second shelf but me.
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Max: Don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy. It renders you powerless.
Sam: Did you know that?
Edgar: Sure. Everyone knows that.
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Edgar: If you try to stop us, or vamp out in any way, I'll stake you without even thinking twice about it!
Sam: Chill out Edgar.
Edgar: [coming to his senses] Right.
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David: It is too late, my blood is in your veins.
Michael: So is mine!
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Trivia:
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- David is impaled on a pair of antlers and doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires. Despite what Max later says, he is not really dead. This was intended to be picked up in the sequel, which was scripted but never made.
- The amusement park scenes were filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California. This is the same park that appeared in Brotherhood of Justice (also starring Kiefer Sutherland.) The Boardwalk was also seen in the Dirty Harry sequel Sudden Impact and Harold and Maude.
- Both Corey Feldman, who plays Edgar Frog, and Barnard Hughes, who plays Grandpa, share the same birthday, July 16th.
- The movie was originally written as a bunch of "Goonie-type 5th-6th grade kid vampires". Joel Schumacher liked the title but hated the concept, so he changed it.
- Although the movie is clearly set in Santa Cruz, Ca (the Boardwalk and Pier are featured in several scenes) the city name given in the film is the-as far as I know-fictional Santa Carla. Apparently the Santa Cruz chamber of commerce was not keen on reviving the "Murder capital" moniker, which had been hung on Santa Cruz during a serial killer's rampage in the 70s.
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