A recently divorced lady and her two sons are forced to move in with her father, due to financial problems, in the town of Santa Carla, California. Santa Carla has a high murder rate and are famous for people disappearing without a trace and the youngest son Sam gets to hear that the town is inhabited by vampires who supposably are behind the murders but refuse to believe it at first. The elder son Mike meets a girl that he falls for but she's hanging with a crowd that are not your normal human beings. Later Sam sees Mike showing signs of becoming an actual vampire and together with two young vampire hunters that he met earlier, they set out to destroy the head vampire to get rid of all the vampires and to save his brother.
The Lost Boys is a pretty cool 80's movie and probably among the better vampire flicks ever made. Most vampire movies have a tendensy to suck (no pun intended) or take themselves too seriously which only makes them end up more goofy in the first place.
The Lost Boys actually manages to have a really good balance between comedy, thriller and horror. The comedy is 80's style but not too over-the-top and works pretty well without ruining the actual suspense parts of the movie.
The story is pretty cool but far from brilliant but works well and makes for a really good and entertaining movie. The twist in the end is nothing special and you can probably figure it out at least half way through the movie. This doesn't really matter though since it's a really good and most of all a entertaining flick with good performances from all the actors involved.
We get to see a young Kiefer Sutherland as a vampire and 80's star Corey Feldman as a vampire hunter, he's not really a good actor but his 80's movies are actually kinda fun to watch, same with Corey Haim who plays the youngest son Sam.
It's a serious movie but has a little humour here and there which works pretty well without taking the suspense off. We don't get to see that much blood and gore even if it deals with vampires but it's not that kind of movie and is not necessary either. About the directing, score, acting and special effects etc, there's nothing to really complain about since it's all well done.
For a lot of people I guess this movie is kinda nostalgic seeing it nowadays, and for younger people who haven't seen it you might wanna give it a shot since it's such a cool and classic vampire movie.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1987
DIRECTOR: Joel Schumacher
WRITING CREDITS: Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Thriller
CAST: Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 97 min
RATING: 8/10
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