The Lost Boys is about a pair of brothers being raised by a single mom who move to the seaside town of Santa Carla, that is overrun by a gang of teenage vampires. The older brother (Jason Patric) falls in with the charismatic gang leader (Kiefer Sutherland) while Corey Haim, the younger brother, befriends a pair of vampire hunting kids named the Frog Brothers. Haim becomes obsessed with saving his big brother from a life of bloodsucking and decides he needs to find the head vampire in town. Also, our heroes' mom has started dating again. Things do not go smoothly.
This is just 80s glam horror at its best. The Lost Boys (the vampire gang) dress like leather night at the gypsy camp and, of course, they make you think you are eating maggots when you eat Chinese food. The action styling of Joel Schumacher (which would later make Batman and Robin so horrible) is put to good use here with lots of good tension and some practical effects fight scenes between vampires that were quite good for the time.
I don't know if this ages well. I am a fan from my youth so I will always be a little tilted towards it. I remember it being angsty teenage vampire fun.
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