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The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

Posted By: Efgrapha
The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition
DVD5+DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC, 16:9 (720x480) VBR | 01:37:19 | 9.84 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Comedy

In this hit '80s hybrid of the horror movie and the teen flick, a single mom and her two sons become involved with a pack of vampires when they move into an offbeat Northern California town. Lucy (Dianne Wiest) and her sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to Santa Carla to live with Lucy's lovable but curmudgeonly father (Barnard Hughes). Lucy gets a job from video-store owner Max (Edward Herrmann), then begins dating him, while Sam hangs out with Edward and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), a pair of vampire-obsessed comic-shop clerks. Soon Michael falls in with some actual vampires after becoming enamored of one of their victims: Star (Jami Gertz), a gypsy-like vixen who is trying to hold on to her humanity even though vampire leader David (Kiefer Sutherland) wants to play Peter Pan to her Wendy. When Michael visits the cavernous hangout of David and his cronies and unwittingly drinks from a wine bottle full of vampiric blood, he becomes an unwilling member of the bloodsucker biker gang. Soon, it's up to Sam and the Frog brothers to destroy David and his ilk without killing Michael and Star. Shot on location in the coastal California town of Santa Cruz and directed by Hollywood pro Joel Schumacher, The Lost Boys became a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to its attractive young stars, offbeat soundtrack, and hip, clever marketing campaign. The film's tagline – "Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire." – perfectly captured its knowing mixture of attitude and gore. The effects team who transformed Sutherland and company into snarling bloodsuckers would go on to provide equally gruesome effects for Blade, another revisionist vampire flick, more than a decade later.

Synopsis by Brian J. Dillard, Allmovie.com

"The Lost Boys" in this movie are vampires, teenage vampires, and of course there is a lost girl, too, but why mention her? They hang from the ceiling of their lair, in the ruins of an old hotel, and at night they go out to cruise the boardwalk of Santa Cruz, Mass Murder Capital of the World. When a new kid moves to town, the lost boys look threatening but the lost girl looks just great.

From this beginning, Joel Schumacher has devised an ambitious entertainment that starts out well but ends up selling its soul. There is a moment, early in this film, when it seems to have a handle on its characters and the after-dark teenage world they inhabit. But the ending of the film is just another one of those by-the-numbers action climaxes in which the movie is over when all the bad guys are dead. Has there been an action thriller all year in which the last 20 minutes weren't phoned in from the depository of bankrupt cliches?

The movie stars Jason Patric as Michael, a bright kid who moves to town with his widowed mother (Dianne Wiest) and little brother (Corey Haim). Right away he meets a nice local man (Edward Herrmann), who comes calling on his mother. Before long, he sees the great-looking girl (Jami Gertz). And not long after that, he sees the pack of lost boys, led by Kiefer Sutherland. The girl invites him to join them.

The Frog Brothers try to warn him. They're a couple of bright kids who run a comic book store on the carnival boardwalk. They give him a couple of comic books about vampires and offer their services if any vampires need to be killed, but Michael doesn't believe in vampires and doesn't make the connection until it's too late.

At about this point, the movie feels like it's going somewhere. But then the plot starts getting very complicated, with the adult romance between Wiest and Herrmann, the teenage romance between Patric and Gertz, and the vampire intrigues of Sutherland.

Because everything looks so good (the movie was photographed in rich, dark colors by Michael Chapman), we almost give it the benefit of the doubt: The high quality of the photography and acting had me wondering if perhaps this wouldn't develop into a genuinely frightening and interesting vampire story. But no such luck. It is no longer a virtue in mainstream Hollywood to bring any genuine, unsettling imagination to a commercial movie.

If you really stop to think about it, a bunch of vampire teenagers would be a terrible shame, a tragedy, a heartbreaking loss of innocence for them, let alone their victims. Am I silly to take them seriously? Maybe so. The movie doesn't. It lacks the sense of dread that creeps out from the pages of a novel such as Anne Rice's Interviews with the Vampire and substitutes the same old cornball, predictable action climax with everybody chasing everybody around with lots of screams and special-effects gore. Sometimes I think modern advances in special-effects technology can be directly blamed for the collapse of original screenwriting.

There's some good stuff in the movie, including a cast that's good right down the line and a willingness to have some fun with teenage culture in the Mass Murder Capital. But when everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with - no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination - just technique at the service of formula.

Review by Roger Ebert

IMDB 7,2/10 from 76 603 users
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Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Janice Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam

Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition



The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition

The Lost Boys (1987) Special Edition


Special Features:

Disc One:

Audio Commentary by director Joel Schumacher

Disc Two:

The Lost Boys: A Retrospective documentary

Inside the Vampire’s Cave:
- A Director's Vision
- Comedy vs Horror
- Fresh Blood: A New Look At Vampires
- The Lost Boys Sequel?

Vamping Out: The Undead Creations of Greg Cannom

The Return of Sam and the Frog Brothers:
- Haimster & Feldog: The Story of the 2 Coreys
- Multi Angle Video Commentary with Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander featurette (on Frog Brother scenes)

The Lost Scenes (Deleted Scenes)

'Lost In the Shadows' Lou Gramm Music Video

Theatrical Trailer

The Vampire’s Photo Gallery

A World of Vampires: Interactive Ancient Map

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