31 Days of Horror: The Lost Boys

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 19, 2008

31 Days of Horror

The Lost Boys (1987)

Synopsis: After moving to a new California town, a pair of brothers soon become embroiled in a mess of teenage vampires and inept comic loving vampire hunters.  After the elder brother Michael starts displaying signs of vampirism, it becomes vitally important this ragtag assortment of heroes slay the head vampire.

Killer Scene: The final battle is pretty sweet and any time Kiefer is on screen is awesome, but the scene that sticks out most in my mind is Sutherland’s David taunting Michael and making him believe he’s eating maggots out of a Chinese food box.  Maggots, Michael, you’re eating maggots.  How do they taste?

KILLSHEET

Violence: There is a lot of bloody vampire goodness, with people getting bit and tossed into fires and thrown around.  The vampires themselves take the brunt of most of the violent stuff, with stakes into hearts, impalements, electrocutions, and all sorts of sharp objects being shoved into them.  The blood flows freely – vamps are bleeders.

Sex: One sex scene in the film and you get to see a little bit of bra action, but nothing really worth mentioning.  The film does fine without the sex though, so don’t worry.

Scares: Not really a scary flick, but there are some tense moments throughout.  Towards the end the Vampires amp up their frightening tactics and looks which could put some creepy images into your mind.  There is a jump scare or two and Kiefer Sutherland is sufficiently menacing to scare your children.

Final Thoughts: The Lost Boys is a favorite of mine, and a lot of others.  Joel Schumacher moved the vampire legend into a sleepy town in California and made the vampires perhaps the thing that scares adults most – teenagers!  With cool 1980s fashion, a ripping soundtrack, and great performances in a novel movie, this is one of the first and best times a movie really tried to make the Vampire something more than a well dressed gentlemen and it works great.  It also stars the Coreys and Bill S. Preston, Esquire!


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  • D Train
    Man, I wonder what Bills up to these days.
  • D Train
    Oh boy. Not much according to IMdB.
  • am i the only one that thinks this film is way over rated?
    don't get me wrong i think its a fun movie but not as great to the extent taht this films is hailed as being.
  • MacDaddy
    This is one of my all time favs!!! It's hilarious, has the Corey's, Keifer rocks the shit in this and has a buffed Timmy Capello playing sax and singing which is so so so 80's! It's an outright classic from my childhood and just good fun. One of those movies I don't want to end.
  • John
    I was so excited when it was finally released in a 2-disk DVD. However, I do not think it aged well at all. I still love the 80's, but the movie was not as cool as I remembered it. And what is up with that Rob Lowe poster up on Corey Heim's wall? I never caught it back in the 80's, but what is an ab showing Lowe poster doing in the room of a kid who walks around in a technicolor dream coat. Subtext perhaps?
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