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After doing battle with, and vanquishing, a werewolf in Silver Bullet just two years prior, Corey Haim took the next logical step by taking on a group of vampires in The Lost Boys (or as many people refer to it as; The Most Awesome Vampire Movie Ever Made). However, this time around, he wouldn’t be taking on the burden alone; this time, he brought his good buddy, Corey Feldman, along for the ride.

In the film, a family consisting of a Mom (Dianne Wiest) and her two boys, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), are moving from Phoenix to the surfer town of Santa Carla. At first, everything appears to be going fine as there is a shitload of stuff to do… assuming you like hanging out on the boardwalk and watching sweating men play a saxophone and singing a song that gets stuck in your head. But then Michael sees a girl (Jami Gertz)… a girl who gets Michael into hanging out with the wrong group of guys. As it turns out, these guys lead by Kiefer Sutherland, are vampires and they trick Michael into becoming one of them. So, in hopes of saving Michael, the two brothers decided to take on this pack of vampires and enlist the help of The Frog Brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), two “Vampire Hunters” who happen to run a comic book shop.

Though I do enjoy Falling Down, The Lost Boys will always be, in my opinion, Schumacher’s best film. The look and feel of this movie is fantastic. The pacing for it is amazing as the scenes flow flawlessly. He even relies on what I call “The Jaws Technique”, which is where they hold off revealing what the baddie looks until the time is right… in this case that moment is around the 1 hour mark and it makes the payoff even sweeter than it already is.

The cast for the film, though their acting isn’t anything award winning, is downright titsy. Everyone plays their part perfectly. It doesn’t matter if it’s Alex Winter (Bill from Bill and Ted) as Marco, the runt of the vampire gang, or Barnard Hughes, Sam and Michael’s darling Grandpa who loves dabbling in taxidermy and nail old who-ers; everyone servers their purpose and helps the film move along as fluidly as possible. As for the main characters, the actors do a great job as well and have a great chemistry between them.

The film has a few scenes that involve special effects, which is a little bit of a let down, but the ones that are in the movie, for the most part, are solid. This is do to the fact that a majority of them are practical effects; which have a longer shelf life than computer effects; which get that outdated look as time goes on. The only outdated effect in this movie is the fight sequence between Michael and David at the end of the film. It looks really bad as you can see the blue lines around both actors.

The Lost Boys is one of those “sure thing” types of movies. Meaning that no matter who you are or how old you get, you can always rely on The Lost Boys being an entertaining film. It’s a shame that there was a piss poor sequel released last year, but even that film’s shittiness can’t taint the awesomeness of the original.

Final Synopsis: This movie is the tits… if you don’t own it, you better go buy it or suffer the consequences.

Points Lost: Even though the fight looks a bit outdated, it still looks better than a lot of the stuff released today, so, in other words… none.

Lesson Learned: Never kill a vampire in your bathtub.

Burning Question: Whatever happens to Laddie? I don’t even remember him being referenced in the sequel.

The Lost Boys
10/10

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