The Lost Boys DVD [1998]

The Lost Boys DVD [1998] Description

This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumachers films, its conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons and, granted, theres some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but its a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast thats eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay.