The Lost Boys

People ask me what the hell has happened to vampires these days, I respond "Vampires died when Twilight was born" and you know what, the sad thing is that it's true. Vampires use to be one of the best horror villains ever created by the wonderful Bram Stoker with "Dracula" but once Twilight came out they all died. That's why I love The Lost Boys it's seriously the best vampire movie ever made. Once Lucy (Dianne Wiest) gets divorced she decides she needs some financial help along with raising her two sons Micheal (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) and they move to a small coast town in California to live with their grandfather, Lucy's dad. Micheal and Sam take a tour around the local amusement park which is where Micheal meets Star (Jami Gertz) and learns about rumors of mysterious deaths caused by vampires and he shrugs it off cause why would you believe rumors about vampires from someone you just met? You have no idea who this person is and you don't know if they could be off their rocker, they have to be if they believe in vampires.

Later on Star introduces Micheal to David (Kiefer Sutherland) the leader of the vampire gang and turns him into a vampire. You start to wonder where Sam is during all this time, well he's just minding his own business until he starts to realize that something is not right with his brother. He sleeps ALL day and he's only awake during the night and when he's actually awake during the day he wears sunglasses. Sam befriends two kids Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) and Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) who work at the local comic book store who claim to be vampire hunters riiiiight, that's like me claiming to be a zombie hunter but I wouldn't be a hunter I'd be part of the zombie army. They ban together to fight off the gang of vampires to get to the vampire leader to save his brother. They all know once they kill the leader then Micheal is saved but the only problem with that is they have no idea who the leader is. They think it's David but come to find out it's not so they have to go through out the movie trying to find who it is.

This movie was awesome and did the vampire clan justice and I loved every minute of it. It was funny, it was gorey, it had a twist at the end of the movie and each scene kept up with the last one. One of the things I hate about movies is they can't keep the movie flowing evenly, the scenes wont match the last one and you end up being confused and not liking the movie cause it's not entertaining when you have to think really hard about the movie since they didn't make it easy for you to follow it. The Lost Boys was very good it even made a sequel, almost 10 years later with a whole new cast lol. The funny thing is in the sequel The Lost Boys: The Tribe the villain in that movie is Angus Sutherland who is the younger half brother of Kiefer Sutherland who played the villain in the 1987 Lost Boys. Small world huh?!

I give this movie 5 out of 5 Skulls.

"Great! The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch!" - Edgar Frog

JennyB<br />
http://memoirsofascreamqueen.blogspot.com/

So the other day i popped in my copy of the Lost Boys since it was the  passing of Corey Haim, loved the film then, love it now.

Starts  off with a vampire attack scene set to an excellent score, then we're  introduced to Emerson family Sam, Michael & their mom Lucy, played  by Corey Haim, Jason Patrick(underrated actor) and Dianne Wiest, along  with their dog Nanook. We here a cover version of People Are Strange by  Eco & THe Bunneyman, who alot of you may know from Donnie Darko!  They decide to move to Santa Carla, the murder capital of the world, and  live with Lucy's dad played by Barnard Hughes.

Michael is  smitten by Star, played by Jami Gertz, whose parents were ex hippies  much like Michael's whose name was this close to being Moon Beam or Moon  Child. However Star runs with a gang of teens led by David, Kiefer  Sutherland, who love to ride motorcycles, run around in circles while  partying, eat chinese, hang Jim Morrison posters and apparently use alot  of hair care products.  The catch is these dudes are vampires, and they  just have Michael some wine, which it turns out is actually blood.

Meanwhile  Sam goes to look for an issue of Batman number 14, a very serious book,  and gives the two kids who run the shop for their parents a lesson in  Superman. The kids are the Frog Brothers, Edgar & Allen, Corey  Feldman & Jamison Newlander, fighters for truth, justice & the  american way, aka vampire hunters! They want Sam to read a horror comic  but he refuses, they later wind up convincing him to take it, as a  survival manual!

Lucy meanwhile has begun a relationship with  Max played by Edgar Herman, who runs a video store with the biggest  collection of video tapes in Santa Carla.She begins working at the store  and dating Max, but the dates never turn out well. One occasion Sam  calls her freaking out that Michael is trying to kill him, she takes off  only to have Sam telling her he was just scared by his horror comic. In  actuality Sam figured out Michael wasn't going to kill him. Other  incidents include Max's dog Thorn chasing after Lucy & ripping her  dress, and the Frog Brothers & Sam trying various tricks to prove  Max is a vampire even after Michael invited him in!

The Frogs,  Sam & Michael decide to go take down David & his gang but it  turns bad for them as the vampires begin to wake up, the battle is now  on. Garlic & holy water are assembled as the vampires rush to the  Emerson house, a battle rages on & Michael kill David. Unfortunately  David is not the head vampire, Max is, who just wanted the two familys  to unite and turn the Emersons into vampires themselves, Michael didn't  invite Max this time so a battle between them is on, until Grampa  crashes through killing Max. Winds up he knew all along about the  vampires, as it was the one thing he couldn't stomach!

I love  this film, always have, the sequel is a piece of shit but the first one  will live forever. R.I.P. Corey Haim!

The Lost Boys is a really fun film to watch. I know it was made back in the 80’s but so what? It is a good film and it is really easy to enjoy it.

Kiefer Sutherland plays a vampire leading his gang of vampires in a small town. Jason Patric plays a young man who moves to this small town with his mother and brother. You think they all will become friends? I’ll tell you what, they will sure have something to talk about in this film.

Vampires films are always enjoyable. This is a film that is made really good, there is a great atmosphere in this film of summer, a small town, girls and...have I mentioned vampires?
Little by little Patric’s character is drawn to the vampires gang and as in all films, there is always a girl somewhere there, so a romantic connection forms in this films but who cares? As long as we have vampires to terrorize the town, all is good!

This film is a soft horror film with comedy in it as well. The scenes where the good guys fight the vampires are great and funny with the comendy touch being made by Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. This is truly is a good movie to watch when you’re down, you cheer up as it finishes and even start singing the great songs in the film. It’s also great seeing Sutherland young and powerful and being a vampire suits him 100%, if someone should represent them, it’s him.

All in all, a great movie that even though it is a little old, it is made good, it’s funn at times too and it’s a soft horror film that is always fun watching when you’re down and want to cheer up and watch some vampires and when you’re up and want to stay this way.