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MTV’s “Teen Wolf” is one of the best shows based on a movie<\/a> out there, but it didn’t actually mine the 1985 flick starring Michael J. Fox as the eponymous basketball-loving lycanthrope for inspiration. The small-screen “Teen Wolf” reboot<\/a> incorporates more chaos and horror into the mix, which stems from creator Jeff Davis’ love of “The Lost Boys,” the ’80s cult classic about vampires causing havoc in a small California town.<\/p>\n While speaking to Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>, Davis revealed that the original “Teen Wolf” is essentially a high school sports movie, and he wasn’t interested in repeating what came before. “The Lost Boys,” meanwhile, contains a variety of different flavors that informed his own creative process on “Teen Wolf.”<\/p>\n “[‘The Lost Boys’ is] not only scary, suspenseful, sexy, but it also has a sense of humor,” Davis tells the magazine. “More than anything, if I was going to do this, I wanted to make sure it was going to have some humor to it.”<\/p>\n Like “The Lost Boys,” Davis’ supernatural drama centers around young people who must contend with monstrous threats to their own California town. Meanwhile, the only real similarity between the “Teen Wolf” film and the MTV series is that both feature werewolf protagonists named Scott who must navigate the complexities of adolescence while coming to terms with their otherworldly abilities. The horror spin works on the series, though, and it allowed “Teen Wolf” to enjoy six successful seasons<\/a> on MTV (plus a movie afterward). That said, “The Lost Boys” isn’t the only property that inspired Davis’ series.<\/p>\n