In one of Us's first scenes, we see the childhood version of Adelaide (played by Madison Curry) on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with her mother and father. Not only does The Lost Boys take place in Santa Cruz, but its opening scene was filmed at the same boardwalk, and includes a sequence of the characters on the carousel. Adelaide's mother makes reference to this part of the 1987 vampire film when she says, "You know they're shooting a movie over there by the carousel."