Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 07/31/1987(USA)
Release Date: 01/28/1998
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In this hit '80s hybrid of the
horror movie and the
teen flick, a single mom and her two sons become involved with a pack of vampires when they move into an offbeat Northern California town.
Lucy (
Dianne Wiest) and her sons,
Michael (
Jason Patric) and
Sam (
Corey Haim), move to Santa Carla to live with
Lucy's lovable but curmudgeonly father (
Barnard Hughes).
Lucy gets a job from video store-owner
Max (
Edward Herrmann), then begins dating him, while
Sam hangs out with
Edward and
Alan Frog (
Corey Feldman and
Jamison Newlander), a pair of vampire-obsessed comic-shop clerks. Soon
Michael falls in with some actual vampires after becoming enamored of one of their victims:
Star (
Jami Gertz), a gypsy-like vixen who is trying to hold onto her humanity even though vampire leader
David (
Kiefer Sutherland) wants to play
Peter Pan to her
Wendy. When
Michael visits the cavernous hangout of
David and his cronies and unwittingly drinks from a wine bottle full of vampiric blood, he becomes an unwilling member of the bloodsucker biker gang. Soon, it's up to
Sam and the
Frog brothers to destroy
David and his ilk without killing
Michael and
Star. Shot on location in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz and directed by Hollywood pro
Joel Schumacher,
The Lost Boys became a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to its attractive young stars, offbeat soundtrack, and hip, clever marketing campaign; the film's tagline -- "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." -- perfectly captured its knowing mixture of attitude and gore. The effects team who transformed
Sutherland and company into snarling blood-suckers would go on to provide equally gruesome effects for
Blade, another revisionist vampire flick, more than a decade later.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
