When was the film the Lost Boys first released?”
User Reviews (Review this title) 7 out of 9 people found the following review useful. Great 80s fun!, 3 August 2006 Author: José Luis Rivera Mendoza (jluis1984) from Mexico There are many films about vampires, but one that is almost always remembered with a shy smile on the face is definitely “The Lost Boys”. As one of the best remembered films of the 80s, this movie has become part of pop culture and a defining film for that period as it showcases most of what was cool or hip in that decade. While its status as “horror classic” has a lot to do with the nostalgic factor, it’s an entertaining film on its own right and its modernization of the vampire myth along with its tongue in cheek humor still make for a charming and funny session of pure mindless entertainment. The movie begins with Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest) as she moves to Santa Clara, California, with her two teenager sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) after a bitter divorce. In Santa Clara, Michael becomes invol
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror film about two young Arizonans who move to California and end up fighting a gang of teenage vampires. Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and Kiefer Sutherland, and co-stars Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. M. Barrie’s stories about Peter Pan and Neverland. Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) and his boyish brother Sam (Corey Haim) move with their just-divorced mother Lucy (Dianne Wiest) to Santa Carla, a coastal California town plagued by gang activity and unexplained disappearances. The family moves in with Lucy’s father (Barnard Hughes), a cantankerous and eccentric old man who lives in the outlying suburbs of town, with a hobby of taxidermy. The center of town life is the boardwalk and amusement park. While Lucy gets a job at a local video store run by a man named Max (Edward Hermann), Micha
