Lost Boys

Theatrical Release Date: 1987 07 31 (USA)

UPC: 883929024315

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language]

Summary: 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. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: Commentary by director Joel Schumacher
Additional scenes
The Lost Boys: A Retrospective documentary
The Return of Sam and the Frog Brothers: The 2 Coreys and Jamison Newlander - Multiangle video commentary
Vamping Out: The Undead Creations of Greg Cannom
Inside the Vampire's Cave: 4 featurettes
The Vampire's photo gallery
Lou Gramm Lost in the Shadows music video
A World of Vampires interactive map
Theatrical trailer

Lost Boys

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 07/29/2008

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 97 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French,German

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,German

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Brian J. Dillard

Few blockbusters can boast the easy charms of this delightful popcorn flick, which featured "the two Coreys" (Haim and Feldman) at the height of their popularity and set brooding Jason Patric up for endless "Why isn't he a bigger star?" feature stories. Although no fewer than five hands were involved in the screenplay, the film that emerges is a solidly cohesive effort that takes both its teen angst and its blood-n-fangs seriously even as it smirks slightly at its own cheekiness. From the deadpan antics of Grampa (Barnard Hughes) and the quirky likability of his flaky daughter, Lucy (Woody Allen favorite Dianne Wiest), to the classic "meet cute" of Star (Jamie Gertz) and Michael (Jason Patric), The Lost Boys uses standard-issue screenwriting devices to set up its vampires-in-seedy-suburbia scenario. It succeeds, however, thanks to its imaginative vampire mythos and its easy mixture of laughs and thrills. Kiefer Sutherland is actually quite menacing as the leader of the Rebel Without a Cause-style undead, while the Coreys and co-star Jamison Newlander have great fun spouting slang witticism and driving stakes through the hearts of the bloodsucking legions. The location shots of coastal Northern California punks cavorting on the boardwalk set an edgy pop-culture tone that's carried through in the music (by INXS, Echo and the Bunnymen, and composer Thomas Newman, among others) and especially in the shots of the so-hip-it-hurts vampire hangout. The real treat for horror fans, though, is the extended set piece of the climax, which includes so many inventive deaths (and killer plot twists) that it renders earlier vampire movies tame. Fans of more methodical psychological horror -- and older audiences in general -- probably won't find The Lost Boys too scintillating, but for youngsters, horror fans, and '80s survivors, it's a fun little flick that has held up remarkably well. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Nori Morgan  Actor 
Melanie Bishop  Actor 
Kelly Minter  Actor 
J. Dinan Myrtetus  Actor 
Jim Turner  Actor 
Harvey Bernhard  Producer 
Jeffrey Boam  Screenwriter 
Chris Columbus  Screenwriter 
Mark Damon  Executive Producer 
Richard Donner  Executive Producer 
Janice Fischer  Screenwriter 
John W. Hyde  Executive Producer 
James Jeremias  Screenwriter 
Thomas Newman  Composer (Music Score) 
Joel Schumacher  Director 
Thomas Pope  Screenwriter 
Jason Patric  Actor 
Corey Haim  Actor 
Dianne Wiest  Actor 
Barnard Hughes  Actor 
Edward Herrmann  Actor 
Kiefer Sutherland  Actor 
Jami Gertz  Actor 
Corey Feldman  Actor 
Jamison Newlander  Actor 
Brooke McCarter, Jr.  Actor 
Billy Wirth  Actor 
Alex Winter  Actor 
Chance Michael Corbitt  Actor 

Country: USA