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The Lost Boys is a 1987 American comedy/horror film about young Californians who must fight a gang of teenage vampires. It stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and Kiefer Sutherland, and co-stars Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, and Barnard Hughes. It was directed by Joel Schumacher. The film's title is derived from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.

Plot

A divorced mother and her two teenage sons, Michael and Samuel, move to live with the mother's father in the small California town of Santa Carla (based loosely on the city of Santa Cruz, California), plagued by problems with a motorcycle gang and unexplained disappearances.

The older boy, Michael (Jason Patric), is eventually drawn into the motorcycle gang because he feels attracted to the group's girl, Star (Jami Gertz), and because he doesn't want to look less than their charismatic leader, David (Kiefer Sutherland). After a sort of informal initiation ceremony with the gang involving dangerous activities such as motorcycle racing through the fog and hanging from the underside of a rail bridge, Michael begins to hang out with them until he is made to drink blood in the guise of wine. Soon afterwards, he starts showing the symptoms of vampirism. He sleeps all day and starts hanging out with them all night, which lasts until they drive him to a real hunt and show him that he must kill in order to survive.

This makes Michael react. With the help of Star, Laddie (a vampire child), and his brother Sam who in the meantime has joined up with two inept vampire hunters (Edgar and Alan Frog), he sets out to shake off the curse by finding and killing the head vampire. This will prove more difficult than it seems, because it is not so evident who the leader is.

The movie ends with two twists: one regarding the identity of the head vampire, and the other sure to make you laugh.

Cast

Jason Patric
- Michael Emerson
Corey Haim
- Sam Emerson
Diane Weist - Lucy Emerson
Barnard Hughes - Grandpa
Edward Herrmann
- Max
Kiefer Sutherland
- David
Billy Wirth - Dwayne
Brooke McCarter - Paul
Alex Winter
- Marco
Jami Gertz
- Star
Corey Feldman
- Edgar Frog
Jamison Newlander - Alan Frog
Chance Michael Corbitt - Laddie Thompson

Box office and critical importance

The Lost Boys performed well at the U.S. box office, grossing over $32 million - a strong performance for an R-rated horror movie.

It won a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film in 1987. The film was part of a postmodern trend to transplant the European folklore of vampires into the new world that included 1987's western-gothic Near Dark
. Such works paved the way for other modern vampire movies and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer
. The movie can be seen as seminal in the modernization of the vampire myth and its adaptation to the end of the 20th century. It is probably thanks to it that movies such as the aforementioned and others, such as Blade
and its sequels ever came to exist.

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Movies - The Lost Boys

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