Fan CastingThe Lost Boys : The Beginning (1989)

Around the start of 1908 in California, David Powers (Kiefer Sutherland) along with his gang of thieves and ruffians work small heists in the California coast until they were chased out of town until ending up in Santa Carla, David and his crew witness a nearby ship crash, one survivor escaped the wreck. Later after, the boys soon afterwards attempt to rob the survivor that wandered town but without their knowledge, that survivor was Vlad Tepes. Otherwise known as Count Dracula, himself. One by one, the boys were hunted by Vlad, however he does not kill them. When they wake up in the Hotel the next morning, all of their injuries have healed. Unbeknownst to them he fed each one his own blood, turning them without their knowledge. By nightfall, Vlad gives the boys an invitation to gamble with him as the head vampire gambles against the hotel's owner but after game ending with the owner's near death and Vlad giving them the hotel, that's when the crimson soaked horror starts..