Lost Boys

Cult Classics • Sep 17 • By Aaron Sweeney

The Lost Boys

I watched it at 4:30 AM on a Thurs. after having to do an overseas 4AM business call. When I finished that call, I looked around and thought, gosh, only me and psychopaths are up at this hour, where do I start here with my day? Given this spiritual ungrounded emotional state of mind, the movie really delivered. Kiefer is amazing. I like how he and his crew are just reckless, glamourous and dangerous. What’s with the focus on the amusement park? The movie completely dates itself as being set starkly in the pre-cell phone era since all teens could do was cause trouble on the local merry go round or nerd out at a comic store. Coreys, nice work! Haim, you are like the same exact kid as in License to Drive.

Michael (Jason Patric), how can you be so naive? Jamie Gertz caught you looking, and then you became a vampire. Maybe next time you will decide not to agree to race around on your motorcycle with a group of strangers dressed like they just came from a Whitesnake video shoot. It’s too easy to jest, the earrings! What fisherman was robbed?

Where did Jason Patric's earing come from? Santa Carla truly is a weird town since vampires seem to become raging 80s hair band sketch balls. Where was the Cali town of early 80s Ridgemont High? A town where bong hits, skateboards and talking back to customers at your crappy fast food job were forms of rebellion. No, Lost Boys goes for the jugular literally, and figuratively. Very noir shots as well.

I am not a horror/fantasy movie buff by any stretch, but maybe I just was not tuning in at 4:30am? Clockwork Orange and The Shining would also probably play well at that hour. I regret so many Halloweens have come and gone without me taking the opportunity to be a Lost Boy. So easy; trench coat - check, hair sprayed mullet - check, dangly fishing lure for earing - check, then I’m good. Throw in some vampire teeth and a vampire prop or two and there you have it!