Saturday 21 August 2010

The Lost Boys

Before Keifer Sutherland did 24, before Jason Patric did Speed 2-Cruise Control, after the two Corey's (Haim and Feldman) did Goonies and before Alex Winter did Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey...there were, The Lost Boys.

In 1987, Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin and Tigerland) created a teen vampire horror (not Twilight!). This told the story of two brothers and their mom, who relocate from Arizona to Califor NI AAYY, for a fresh start, following a divorce and move in with grouchy grand-dad.

Covering The Doors classic 'People are Strange', Echo & The Bunnymen's version opens up the film and sets the theme for the entire movie, dark and thrilling.

Older brother 'Patric' gets involved with a gang, 'cos he fancies this chick and it turns out he's a victim of peer pressure and ends up drinkin' this 'drink'...he doesn't know, but we do, don't we folks...that's right, Pat's on his way to full Vampire-dom. Except, Corey Haim (younger bro) has started going to the comic book store, met these 'cool' guys that know about wierd stuff going on around the place and recognize the symptoms in Corey's older bruv.

So, they decide to sort it!

Line of the film: "Something I could never stand about this town...all the Damn Vampires"!

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