Thursday 8 January 2009

The Lost Boys (1987)

[Movie 11 / Day 8]


The Lost Boys is a teen-vampire movie that starred a who's who of 80s faces - the two Coreys, Feldman (who starred in so many fondly remembered 80s movies, including Gremlins, The Goonies and Stand By Me, before being doomed to obscurity) and Haim (who always seemed to have his gob open and fat tongue lolling), Jason Patric (who is much better in this than the painful Speed 2) and Kiefer Sutherland (who seemed to nail the bad-boy role before becoming doomed to 24).

It's pretty tame fair compared to modern vampire flicks, but it's still worth a watch. The vampire effects themselves, whilst simplistic, are done well enough not to become a laughing point now.

My rating: 6.4 / 10
IMDB rating: 6.9 / 10
Running time: 97 mins
IMDB link

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