"I’m sorry, but Lost Boys is the only expert movie on vampires"

you know while watching this i noticed an abundance of 60's/hippie-era references in this movie. also i find it striking that the film is
ultimately about resistance to peer pressure (vampirism=drugs, obviously).

is it possible this film is an oblique conservative commentary on the decades-long fallout from the permissive 60's counterculture and its supposed negative effects on reagan-era youth?

after all, it is wily old Grandpa, the seemingly crazy member of the Greatest generation, who saves the day in the end. are the filmmakers trying to tell us something?

I love how two of the biggest things that this film was trying to set up -- Jason Patric as a star and Charlie Sexton as a music star -- never got much more famous than this. (Patric's had one erratic career...)

he was briefly mentioned for Dr. Manhattan in the upcoming watchmen flick but it's now gone to Billy Crudup, apparently.

no, Jason Patric was actually the center of a couple films for adults.

Never knew you were a Speed 2 fan.

After Dark My Sweet, Geronimo, Your Friends & Neighbors

I'm sorry, but *this* is the only expert movie on vampires:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Vampire

omg "enquiring minds want to know" has been an integral part of my lexicon since 1988 because of that line!

That's where I got that line from? Shit, didn't even realize!

patric does a damn good narc

saw him in "sleepers" with no idea of the plot - i almost refused to watch movies ever again

nathalie that line is from a decades-long advertising campaign from the National Enquirer!

xpost on National Enq, yeah

This looked so gay when it was released I didn't want to see it for fear of looking like a chickenhawk. I shd get around to it sometime.

(a 20something chickenhawk)

Oh okay. Shit, I didn't need to know that. ;-)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/thefalloness/Avatars/chickenhawk.gif

r u hstencil?

http://thighswideshut.org/videos/sax.gif

boy oh boy, time has not been kind to this film ... not that it was ever anything more than a good hoot, but eesh it's kind of embarrassing to admit that i liked this so much when i was a teenager.

So you no longer still believe.

Not even through the storms?

i'd still rather watch this (and last year's piece-of-shit sequel) than "buffy," "true blood," or "twilight." at least i can laugh at a young Jack Bauer's once-resplendent mullet.

Monster Squad is way more fun (and even more dated!)

which has aged worse: Lost Boys or An American Werewolf in London?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SS0F9KOsPgA/R9ooISWgJfI/AAAAAAAACpQ/fB5QZCfK9pU/S1600-R/Fright+Night.jpg

also, i can't believe that ONLY NOW did i notice the REALLY homoerotic/beefcake poster that Corey Haim has hanging on his bedroom wall in this film. i mean, i know that Corey Haim is a punchline, and that this film was directed by Joel "Close-Up Shots of George Clooney's Batman Codpiece" Schumacher -- but STILL COME ON.

still my favorite Kiefer movie

"maggots, michael"

shall I spell it out for y'all ... ROB LOWE BARING HIS MIDRIFF ON TWINKY COREY HAIM'S WALL:

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6851/roblowe0258ww.jpg

Why else do you think they were lost?

Anyway I did like that Bill (rather than Ted) was one of the vampires.

i don't think i could handle watching this movie right now tbh.

This thread reminded me of my obsession with oiled up saxophone man Timmy Cappello unbound even when wrapped in chains. So very sensual, so unfailingly hilarious.

How sad it is to think what he has become.

Please tell me this is not the same person.

I remember loving this film having seen it in about 1987... I then saw it again on dvd in about 2002 and I was so so disappointed how badly it'd aged. Tad's right. It's kind of cringey now.

No, it was my favourite film when I was a teenage goth. It's old enough now that it's become fun and kitschy to watch it now, rather than cringeworthy. I thought it wouldn't hold up, but for me, it totally did.

Rewatching this film (aside from the obvious drawcard of TC) is quite nostalgic for me, and funny. As I never noticed the poster of Rob Lowe on CH's wall I think yet another viewing may be in order. There are hitherto undiscovered levels to appreciate

Can't think of any other vampire film I've seen that I would rewatch, not a fan of the type. Must be the strong moral messages and bitchin' soundtrack that drew me to this one. That and the maggots line.

This movie is classic for the Frog Brothers, who were one of a series of movie role models for kids who dealt with being unpopular and socially awkward by setting aside popularity and academic achievement for devotion to a higher purpose, such as killing vampires, finding pirate treasure, or building a physics-defying spaceship with only an Apple IIc.

. patrick FLOATS OUTSIDE COREY HAIM'S WINDOW. AND COREY HAIM HAS ON A BORN TO SHOP SHIRT AND A POSTER OF A SHIRTLESS ROB LOWE ON HIS CLOSET DOOR!

I had forgotten how gay Corey Haim's character was in this movie.

Love Lost Boys. Love Fright Night. But you do yourself a disservice if you discount Daughters of Darkness.

http://www.locoono.dk/covers/Lesbian%20Euro-Vampires/Daughters%20of%20Darkness%20_01.jpg

I had forgotten how gay Corey Haim's character was in this movie.

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/lost-boys/14.jpg http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/lost-boys/8.jpg

The original Neo.

Daughters of Darkness is a pinnacle of 70's eurohorror, second only to Suspiria. Check it out, and see Kumel's Malpertuis and The Coming of Joachim Stiller as well.

As for Lost Boys, saw it at a festival a couple of years back, and it struck me I'd actually known straight guys who wore that weird pastel stuff that Corey Haim did, and how strange the eighties were, and so on, and so on. As for the movie, I thought it was a painful piece of trash then, and it really isn't improving in any way like a fine wine,

For me Lost Boys has two things going for it: the sense of 80s nostalgia, and the fact that the Frog brothers put holy water in their squirt guns.

It's no Near Dark, though.

Near Dark - great cast, and they use tin foil on the windshield. Big points.

RIP Corey Haim -- you took the secret of the sexual preference of your "Lost Boys" character to the grave w/ you.

;_;

Good to see some Wolfman/nard discussion on this thread too, really.

RIP Corey Haim -- you took the secret of the sexual preference of your "Lost Boys" character to the grave w/ you.

uh, dude had a steamy Rob Lowe poster IN HIS CLOSET

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/lost-boys/14.jpg

he also sported a hot pick t-shirt which read "born to shop" at some point in the film iirc

the "enquiring minds want to know" line comes from a national enquirer tv ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3Xs9sBEVg

god i can't believe that footage is on the internet

Ned is prescient, what can I say.

Hey, there ya go.

somebody in the terrible ideas thread had this brilliant idea for a robot lost boys adaptation or something? where like there are sentient androids trying to destroy humanity, but the vampires need humanity for snacks, so it was this secret war of our oldest predator vs. our newest existential threat and it sounded great, honestly

cyberpunk remake of The Lost Boys titled The Lost Bots.

― peace, man, Wednesday, August 24, 2022 1:58 PM

apparently i made up 95% of my previous post

I think we need to take a moment to recognize the greatness of the title of this thread.

it is indisputable for sure. the film is the perfect distillation of all previous vampire media and the wellspring of all subsequent vampire media. the great vampire media nexus.

i mean i don’t think i’ve ever watched it all the way thru but from the parts i remember seeing on tv ~25 years ago, i assume that’s what it is

i am still sometimes reluctant to dig into fried rice

It is certainly the distillation of young male actors of the 80s.

a most delicious distillation

i’m assuming

Pretty safe assumption.

I hear this thread title in Gregg Turkington’s voice.

On BBC1 right now.

Maybe I have said this but some friends of mine got a Cameo video from the oily sax player as an anniversary present to themselves

Oh, upon scrolling I see that I in fact did say this. Sorry, carry on

Off-topic: For my last birthday, my wife paid Lisa Loeb to sing "Happy Birthday" to me while wearing chunky glasses. It is pretty much my best memory of an utterly horrible year.

This world has many problems but Cameo seems like a bright spot in the darkness.

does anyone know any other expert movies?

My Cousin Vinny is the expert movie on lawyers.