Lost Boys Collection

Jason Patric

Corey Haim

Dianne Wiest

Barnard Hughes

Edward Herrmann

Kiefer Sutherland

Jami Gertz

Corey Feldman

Jamison Newlander

Brooke McCarter

Billy Wirth

Alex Winter

Chance Michael Corbitt

Alexander Bacan Chapman

Nori Morgan

Kelly Jo Minter

Todd Feder

Christopher Peters

Keith Butterfield

Gerald Younggren

Eric Graves

J. Dinan Myrtetus

Timmy Cappello

Jim Turner

Tony Cain

Melanie Bishop

Nicole Vigil

Sandra E. Garcia

Ian Guindon

Jane Bare

B. Lowenberg

Captain Colourz

Inez Pandalfi

Douglas Mellor

Joel Schumacher

Janice Fischer

James Jeremias

Ve Neill

Lou Gramm

Jeffrey Boam

Thomas Newman

Harvey Bernhard

Mark Damon

Richard Donner

John W. Hyde

Robert Brown

Marion Dougherty

Bo Welch

Tom Duffield

R. Chris Westlund

Susan Becker

William L. Young

Donald Elliott

Sam Marquez

Tim Moran

Doyle Smiley

Bob Stoker

Lucinda Strub

Richard Stutsman

Matt Sweeney

Fred Tassaro

Mike Wever

D. Kerry Prior

Vicky Benson

Sandy Berumen

May Boss

Christopher Bowman

Janet Brady

David Burton

Jodie Mae Caldwell

Doc D. Charbonneau

Monty Cox

Gary Davis

Scott Dockstader

Bill Erickson

Bruce Gattenbein

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Jeff Habberstad

Randy Hall

Steve Holladay

Madonna Joy

Kim Robert Koscki

David LeBell

Gene LeBell

John C. Meier

Larry Nicholas

William R. Perry

Chuck Picerni Jr.

Dan Plum

Bernie Pock

Pat Romano

Dennis Scott

Ceci Vendrell

Jack West

Scott Wilder

Spice Williams-Crosby

Tony Gardner

Ross Reynolds

Michael Chapman

Greg Cannom

Dino Ganziano

Steve LaPorte

KG Ramsey

M. James Arnett

William S. Beasley

Patrick A. Duffy

Eric Jewett

Jennifer Kingry

Cheryl Carasik

Ray Chambers

William A. Petrotta

Anne Sidaris-Reeves

Michael J. Smith

John Warnke

Rick Alexander

Jeff Bushelman

Charles L. Campbell

Larry Carow

Robert Crosby

Louis L. Edemann

Richard C. Franklin

Les Fresholtz

Chuck Neely

Alan L. Nineberg

Vern Poore

David M. Ronne

Larry Singer

Eric Brevig

Eric D. Andersen

Michael W. Blymyer

Michael Genne

Paul Goldsmith

Kim Guthrie

Larry Hezzelwood

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The Lost Boys

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

**_Several lost boys but, unfortunately, only one lost girl_**

After a mother and two sons move from Phoenix to coastal town in Northern California, the older son (Jason Patric) gets involved with a gang led by a sinister guy (Kiefer Sutherland) while the younger son (Corey Haim) hangs out with two geeky vampire hunters (Corey Feldman & Jamison Newlander). Meanwhile the mother (Dianne Wiest) starts dating a shop owner (Edward Herrmann). Jami Gertz in on hand as the sole young female.

Released in 1987, "The Lost Boys" is a stylish and hip vampire flick that expertly meshes horror and humor. I usually don't like horror-comedies, but this one works well. The horror is pretty horrifying (in a fun way) while the comedy is consistently amusing. The coastal California locations are superb. However, the excellent train trestle sequence was shot in Alabama (see below).

I generally don't like 80's new wave pop rock, but the soundtrack is enjoyable, particularly the creative Lost Boys Theme, "Cry Little Sister" by Gerard Mcmann (with a catchy chorus sung by children). "Lost in the Shadows" by Lou Gramm is good as well. INXS, Roger Daltry and Echo and The Bunnymen also have songs on the soundtrack, the latter group doing a mid-80's version of The Doors' "People Are Strange," which is very close to the original song and actually sounds like its Jim Morrison singing. The sax-playing beefcake sequence features one-hit wonder Tim Cappello playing "I Still Believe."

Speaking of beefcake, this zeroes in on my problem with this flick: There are multiple lost boys, but only one lost girl. Although Gertz is good-looking, she's always wearing a long skirt and so we never get a good look at her beyond her face (not talkin' 'bout nudity), with the exception of a campfire sex scene that doesn't work because it's premature and overall lame. Needless to say, a mid-80s horror flick without adequate females is scandalous. Director Joel Schumacher needed to take notes from the six Friday the 13th movies that had been released by the time "The Lost Boys" was shot. Oh, wait, Schumacher is, um, nevermind.

While the movie was largely shot in Santa Cruz, California, the vampire cave entrance was 350 miles south at Rancho Palos Verdes whereas the train trestle sequence was shot in Bayou Canot, Mobile, Alabama. The boys were able to jump into the underlying fog because the river was only 12-15 feet below, although the movie gives the impression that they were way higher up. Interior shooting was done in the studio at Burbank.

It's short 'n' sweet at 1 hour, 37 minutes.

GRADE: B