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"The Lost Boys" provides guilty pleasure for everyone!
Date of Review: Sep 24, 2003
The Bottom Line: I love the 80's. If you didn't, avoid this movie
Review- The Lost Boys is a story about two kids, Sam, and his older brother Michael that move to beautiful Santa Carla, the murder capitol of the world. Michael then mixes with the wrong group, and becomes a half vampire. Can Sam save his brother? Will Michael become a full-blooded vampire? And most importantly, why does Sam have a picture of topless guy on his wall?
Review- The Lost Boys is yet another crappy movie from the 80's that I love beyond all control. Typically, this movie is one of those "popular for their soundtrack movies", and I agree, I really like the sound-track in The Lost Boys. But there's more than that. This movie is filled with guilty pleasure, and even though many say that they hate this movie, deep down, they enjoyed it.
Kiefer Sutherland is in this movie, so of course it's going to be good. Every time Kiefer Sutherland is in a movie, it lightens it up, no matter how bad it is. He's a great actor, and his preformence of the vampire named David is great. The next best thing about this movie is Corey Feldman. He also has a great ability to lighten up any movie as well, and he's pretty much like Beavis and Butthead rolled into one.
The movie opens with a security guard being slaughtered by the vampires, and just lets you know right off the bat how low the integrity will be throughout the rest of the feature. The vampires are a group of teenagers led by Sutherland to basically make Santa Carla a miserable place, and they especially like to kill people who listen to Aerosmith.
Enter Michael and Sam. Two brothers who move to Santa Carla with their mom. We meet their very strange grandfather, who doesn't like his Oreo cookies to be eaten, and especially doesn't like label on the TV Guide to be ripped. The guy who plays Michael has one emotionless expression the whole time. David and his vampire buddies race him in a motorcycle race and then ask him to drink blood, therefore turning Michael into a vampire. (the motorcycle race is a standard thing in all Vampire lore *note the sarcasm*).
Well, if this movie does one thing it entertains you a lot. Corey Feldman is a "Frog Brother". The "Frog Brothers" are 13 year old Vampire killers. Feldman is, at times, hilarious. I love his advice to Sam on how to help his brother's problems: "Get a nice big stake, drive it right through his heart." The movie ends with a showdown between the vampires and the protagonists, inside Sam and Michael's new house, which is kinda like a Satanic version of Home Alone. They eventually kill the vampires with holy water inside of super soakers, and there is a surprise twist. But please, please don't give away the awesome surprise twist to The Lost Boys *once again, note the sarcasm*.
This movie is extremely dumb, demented, mean-spirited, and an abomination to all that lives. And yet I loved it. It's very entertaining, and the humor, though very dark, was very funny. If there's one thing that's missing, it really messes up with Vampire lore, not too much, but it doesn't have a sufficient amount of classic Vampire references. Still, it doesn't mess with Vampire lore as much as Underworld does. Despite it's stupidity, it's extremely entertaining, and it was made in the 80's!
DVD Features- The Lost Boys has a very sad DVD. It has no special features, only a theatrical trailer. That's it. Oh, it has production notes, but seriously, does anyone really read them. Thanks for the crappy DVD Warner Brothers.
Overall Grade- B
