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Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) Emerson move with their mother Lucy (Dianne Wiest) to Santa Carla, a coastal California town plagued with gang activity and unexplained disappearances. The family moves in with Lucy's father (Barnard Hughes), a cantankerous old man who lives in the outlying suburbs of town and who decorates his house with the product of his hobby: taxidermy.

The center of town life seems to be the local boardwalk, which has an amusement park. While Lucy gets a job at a local video and electronics store run by a man named Max (Edward Hermann), Michael is fascinated by Star (Jami Gertz), a beautiful young woman who leaves with the leader of the local gang. Michael finds her the next night, but is provoked by gang leader David (Kiefer Sutherland) into a motorcycle race, in which he is baited into almost going over the edge of a sea cliff.

David invites Michael to their lair, where he is put through an unsettling initiation that includes drinking blood from a wine bottle. He joins the gang in hanging from the underside of elevated train tracks, watching in horror as each purposefully drops into a foggy gorge below. Unable to hold on any longer, Michael falls... waking up in his bed, groggy and disoriented.

Meanwhile, Sam meets brothers Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), self-proclaimed vampire hunters. Alerted by the Frog brothers, who keep giving Sam vampire comics, Sam begins to notice Michael's strange behavior, such as sleeping all day and being sensitive to sunlight. One night Michael experiences an episode of blood lust that nearly drives him to attack his brother; the dog bites his hand defending Sam. Terrified of his brother, Sam contacts Edgar and Alan. However, he refuses to kill Michael. Michael convinces Sam that he's not going to kill him and that he's going to find out what's going on.

Michael sneaks out of the house and returns to the vampires' lair, where he confronts Star. She apologizes, insisting that she tried to warn him. The two embrace and then have sex. The morning after Michael removes the makeshift bandage from his hand and finds that the dog bite has healed.

Sometime later, the gang slaughters a group of people in front of Michael and try to convince him to join them, but Michael refuses to kill.

Meanwhile, Sam learns that if the head vampire is killed, all half-vampires will be returned to normal. Sam, Edgar and Alan believe Max, Lucy's new boyfriend, to be the head vampire. They put him through a series of tests, which appear to indicate that he is normal. Desperate to find and kill the head vampire, they plot to invade the vampires' lair and kill them in their sleep. The death of one vampire, Marko, awakens David and the other vampires. The Emerson brothers, the Frog brothers, Star, and another young half-vampire named Laddie barely escape with their lives.

Lucy goes on another date with Max, and Grandpa is tricked into leaving the house. The teens arm themselves with traditional defenses against vampires. David and his remaining gang attack, but are killed. But Michael, Star and Laddie do not return to normal. The suspicions of Sam, Edgar and Alan are confirmed when Max reveals himself to be the head vampire. He had passed the teens' tests because Michael had invited him into his home. Max is about to bite Lucy to transform her into a vampire, to serve as "mother" for his acquired family, but then Granpa crashes his Jeep through the wall of the house and kills Max by impaling him with a flying fence post.

Jason Patric as Michael Emerson

Corey Haim as Sam Emerson

Kiefer Sutherland as David

Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog

Jamison Newlander as Alan Frog

Dianne Wiest as Lucy Emerson

Edward Herrmann as Max

Jami Gertz as Star

Barnard Hughes as Grandpa

Alex Winter as Marko

Billy Wirth as Dwayne

Brooke McCarter as Paul

Chance Michael Corbitt as Laddie

Alexander Bacon Chapman as Greg

Jane Bare as Frog Mother

B. Lowenberg as Frog Father

The greater majority of the movie was filmed in the city of Santa Cruz, California, and the surrounding Santa Cruz mountains. The amusement park scenes were filmed at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. This is the same park that appeared in Brotherhood of Justice (also starring Kiefer Sutherland). The Boardwalk also was seen in the Dirty Harry sequel Sudden Impact and Harold and Maude. Only the inside of the Cave and house were filmed on Stages 12 and 15 at Warner Brothers.

The original screenplay written by Janice Fischer, and James Jeremias was about a bunch of "Goonies-type 5th-6th grade kid vampires", with the Frog Brothers being "chubby 8-year-old Cub Scouts", and Star being a boy instead of a love interest. Joel Schumacher hated that idea and told the producers he would only sign on if he could change them to teenagers, as he thought it would be sexier and more interesting.[citation needed]

Executive producer Richard Donner originally intended to direct the movie himself, but as production languished, he moved on to Lethal Weapon (1987) - and eventually hired Joel Schumacher for the job.[citation needed]

The movie didn't originally end on a joke. After the scene with Grandpa at the refrigerator, it was supposed to cut to the surviving Lost Boys regrouping in the sunken hotel. The last shot was of a mural on the wall, made in the early 1900s, with Max in it looking exactly the same even though nearly 100 years had passed, a la The Shining. All of this appeared in an early draft of the script, but ultimately was never filmed.[citation needed]

Kiefer Sutherland was only meant to wear black gloves when riding the motorbike. However, while messing around on the bike off camera he fell off, breaking his wrist, which forced him to wear the gloves through the whole movie to cover his cast.[citation needed]

The Lost Boys performed well at the U.S. box office, grossing over $32 million; a strong performance for an R-rated horror film, especially for that time.

It won a Saturn Award for Best Horror Film in 1987. The film was part of an 80s trend to make the vampire figures of the stories of old more applicable to audiences in the 1980s, one that included 1987's western-gothic Near Dark and the suburban Fright Night of 1985.

As was the case for many of Warner Brothers' films at the time, Craig Shaw Gardner was given a copy of the script and asked to write a short novel to accompany the film's release. It was released in paperback by Berkley Publishing and is 220 pages long. It includes several scenes later dropped from the film such as Michael working as a trash man for money to buy his leather jacket. It expands the roles of the opposing gang, the Surf Nazis, who were seen as nameless victims of the vampires in the film. It includes several tidbits of vampire lore, such as not being able to cross running water and salt sticking to their forms. It has become something of a collector's item among fans with prices ranging from $20 for a well-read and somewhat battered copy to well over a $150 for copies in good condition.

"David" (Kiefer Sutherland) is impaled on a pair of antlers but doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires. Despite what Max later says, he is not really supposed to be dead. This was intended to be picked up in a sequel, The Lost Girls, which was scripted but never made. In Lost Boys: The Tribe this is explained away as a vampire being able to be killed by anything through the heart, not just a wooden stake. David does not appear in Lost Boys: The Tribe. He makes a reappearance in the comic book series, The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs, which serves as a prequel to Lost Boys: The Tribe and explains the antlers missed his heart.

Scripts for this and other sequels have been circulating since the late 1980s, and the original film's director, Joel Schumacher, made several attempts at one during the 1990s.

Finally, over 20 years after the release of the original film, Lost Boys: The Tribe, was greenlit. Corey Feldman reprises his role as Edgar Frog, with cameos by Jamison Newlander and Corey Haim as Alan Frog and Sam Emerson, respectively. Kiefer Sutherland's half-brother Angus Sutherland takes over the role of lead vampire in the sequel.

In March 2009, MTV reported that work had begun on a third "Lost Boys" movie entitled Lost Boys: The Thirst. Corey Feldman will serve as an executive producer as well as act reprising his role of Edgar Frog.

Main article: The Lost Boys (soundtrack)

Thomas Newman wrote the film score to be an eerie blend of orchestra and organ arrangement while the music soundtrack contains a number of notable songs and several covers, including "Good Times", a duet between INXS and former Cold Chisel lead singer Jimmy Barnes which reached number 1 on the Australian charts in early 1987. This cover version of a 1960s Australian hit by the Easybeats was originally recorded to promote the Australian Made tour of Australia in early 1987, headlined by INXS and Barnes.

Tim Capello's cover of The Call's "I Still Believe" was featured in the film as well as on the soundtrack. Tim Capello makes a small cameo appearance in the movie playing the song at the Santa Carla boardwalk, with his saxophone and trademark bodybuilder muscles on display.

The soundtrack also features a cover version of The Doors' song "People are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen. The song as it featured in the movie is an alternate, shortened version with a slightly different music arrangement.

Lou Gramm, the famed lead singer of Foreigner, also recorded "Lost in the Shadows" for the soundtrack, along with a video which featured clips from the film.

The theme song, "Cry Little Sister", was originally recorded by Gerard McMahon (under his pseudonym of Gerard McMann) for the soundtrack, and later re-released on his self-titled album "G Tom Mac" in 2000. In the sequel of the film the theme song "Cry Little Sister" was covered by a Seattle based rock band "Aiden". As of 2009, the song was recently covered by the Wichita, KS rock band Seasons After. Their version reached #30 in the Mainstream Rock charts.

80s Music Channel: Lost in the Shadows

80s Music Channel: Cry Little Sister

The Lost Boys at the Internet Movie Database

The Lost Boys at Allmovie

The Lost Boys at Box Office Mojo

The Lost Boys (1987) Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010)

The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs (2008) The Lost Boys (soundtrack)

Films directed by Joel Schumacher

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) D.C. Cab (1983) St. Elmo's Fire (1985) The Lost Boys (1987) Cousins (1989)

Flatliners (1990) Dying Young (1991) Falling Down (1993) The Client (1994) Batman Forever (1995) A Time to Kill (1996) Batman & Robin (1997) 8mm (1999) Flawless (1999)

Tigerland (2000) Bad Company (2002) Phone Booth (2003) Veronica Guerin (2003) The Phantom of the Opera (2004) The Number 23 (2007)

Blood Creek (2010) Twelve (2010)

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