7 More Horror Films That Eerily Came True
4. The Lost Boys Aren't The Only Ones Drinking Blood
Joel Schumacher’s vampire horror is the peak of 80s cinema, proving a cult classic over the years since release and a transformation of the vampire trope into much younger and sexier bloodsuckers than the Draculas of old. Whilst one side of the movie is about slaying vampires, the other is about becoming one - and it’s this that inspired a young boy to take his chances as one of the undead.
A particular scene in The Lost Boys sees Michael drink blood in an initiation test from the other angsty vampires, and unfortunately, it was enough to inspire one such watcher to try it out for themselves.
One year after the film’s release, 30-year-old Donald Gall went on a camping trip with four teenage boys, who consequently beat and stabbed the man to death after a fight broke out on the campsite. Becoming ‘very interested’ in vampirism ever since watching the 1987 movie, one of the perpetrators then drank Gall’s spilled blood - though seemingly had no urge to transform into a bat, go on moonlit walks, or hiss at garlic bread afterwards.
The boys were only caught when another friend turned them in after they spoke about their crime to him.