It is Halloween again ladies and gentlemen. Specifically, the very last Halloween before the finally witness the very last Twilight film at long last. But the very sad thing about it aside from the fact that Twilight ever existed is the sheer fact that because it exists, all most of us are going to think of when we hear the word 'vampire', are going to be about Twilight vampires with the expressionless acting, super pale faces and most of all...the sparkling. So I'm going to try to rescue as many people's Halloweens as I can with this review to remind you of a time where there were movies with REAL vampires filled with actual blood-sucking, acting, action and real teenage romance that we can dig. So THIS is a vampire movie you should see this Halloween. THIS is a tale with REAL vampires. THIS is The Lost Boys!
Plot: Michael and his younger brother Sam move to Santa Carla with their recently divorced mother to live with her father. While they are hanging out at the amusement park Broadwalk, Michael becomes interested in a girl named Star who lives with a local gang leader named David who convinces him to a motorcycle race. David later invites him into the gang's lair where he makes him part of the gang by drinking an ornate bottle of wine. But afterwords, Michael and Sam notice that Micheal's reflection in a mirror is barely appearing and he starts to accidentally fly. Michael comes back to the gang to find out that they're all vampires and because he drank the wine (which was actually David's blood), he is a vampire too. So Michael, Sam, Sam's friends who are self-claimed vampire hunters, and Star who is revealed to be a half-vampire, work together to find a way to be cured from Michael and Star being vampires.
Now to be honest, the first...28 ish minutes of this film wasn't that enjoyable for me, mostly in the sense that since this is a Joel Schumacher film, it did have crazy lights and some motorcycle race and things like that that made me think a little too much about Batman & Robin. I mean I honestly wonder if the motorcycle race in that film was there just so Schumacher could do the exact same thing he did for this film. But once Michael turn into a vampire, the rest is real teen-horror film history (or may as well be in my opinion.) It's dark, it's suspenseful, the action is awesome (for its time) some of the comedy is cute, and the story just plain works in terms of the fact that this is what vampires should be about and what kind of story it should be when it's a vampire story involving teenagers. Just horror, action, little bit of teen romance, and actual vampires that sleep during the day, fly around killing people and sucking their blood at night, no sparkling, no looking at expressionless girls weirdly, no baseball or anything else that has to do with Twilight!!!
So that's my review for The Lost Boys. It acts too familiar to some of the things that make you think Batman & Robin or maybe even Batman Forever just because it's a Joel Schumacher film at first, but once the actual vampires kick into the picture, it gives you an actual teen-horror film with actual vampires that is easily an entertaining movie that you can enjoy for yourself this Halloween.
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