The Lost Boys
Year: 1987
Director: Joel Schumacher
Written by: Janice Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam
Threat: Vampire
Weapon of Choice: Stake
Based upon: none
IMDb page: 
The Lost BoysYear: 1987 Director: Joel Schumacher Written by: Janice Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam Threat: Vampire Weapon of Choice: Stake Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
Before Joel Schumacher ruined the Batman franchise, he made a pretty good
little vampire flick with the help of master filmmaker Dick Donner. I've loved this
one for a long time and have no excuse for not having reviewed it before now.
The Emerson's are fleeing a bad marriage in Phoenix, Arizona for the Santa Carla,
California, the murder capital of the world. It takes them no time at all to get involved
in the local vampire sub-culture.
People mock the two Corey's, but I've always liked them, probably because of this
movie. Add in Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jami Gertz and you have a movie
worth seeing. Alex Winter is also here, causing me to wonder if he was a future
celebrity at this poin, or if he was ever a celebrity at all.
What has always made this movie for me is that atmosphere. A lot of vampires choose
a harder, darker world in which to play, but this one happens in a place that I can
believe exists. A place that is carefree and relaxed. A place where a few night loving
kids may just as well be exactly that as vampires.
The script and plot are solid. The acting is pretty good even if Corey Haim overacts
a few times. Really, for me at least, there is nothing not to love about this movie. If
you've never seen it then you owe it to yourself to see it. And if you haven't seen it
in years, then maybe you should check it out again. Yes, even you Rish [Rish: What?
I didn't say anything!]. Even if you hate Joel Schumacher [and who
doesn't?].
Total Skulls: 13
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex |  |
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| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | ||
| Power is cut | |
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| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | |
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| Car stalls or won't start | ||
| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | |
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| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | |
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| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | |
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| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | |
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| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | |
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| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |