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| Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: July 31, 1987 |
Starring:
Corey Haim, Jason Patric
Summary:
Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires. (Warner Bros.)
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The Lost Boys is a horror movie that's funny without making fun of itself and scary without trying to make you sick. [31 Jul 1987, p.86]
There's some good stuff in the movie, including a cast that's good right down the line and a willingness to have some fun with teenage culture in the Mass Murder Capital. But when everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with - no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination - just technique at the service of formula.
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The film loses courage (or imagination) and hews to the Spielberg school of climactic denouement, so that teen farce and special effects take over. By the time the thing has played out, that subtle scare/laugh mix is a thing of the past and you feel as though you just walked out of "Breaking Away" or Goonies. Ah well.
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Schumacher's work in The Lost Boys consists of turning undertones into overtones--of taking the latent, the implied and the mysterious, and turning them into the loud and the obvious. He takes a story and turns it into a bunch of scenes, each of which contains its own payoff and none of which seems to draw on what has come before. And in these days of concept films, a story is a terrible thing to waste. [31 Jul 1987, p.D]
Jul 19, 2014
The Lost Boys has a good soundtrack, effects and acting from the cast mainly Sutherland and Patric. The
movie is as great as Fright Night and a Child's Play. The movie is similar to those because it is a
horror comedy, A+.
movie is as great as Fright Night and a Child's Play. The movie is similar to those because it is a
horror comedy, A+.
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Aug 11, 2013
Una historia de vampiros que dio, da y va a dar que hablar en muchos años. Terrorífica, con un reparto bien de los 80 y con un Kiefer Sutherland en un gran momento, es adictiva y se disfruta a cada momento.
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Oct 29, 2018
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Sep 26, 2011
Good vampire story, it has some things that make it a little infantile, but is good, the performances are ok but the thing that is simply the best are the soundtrack by Gerard McMann
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Jan 13, 2022
Probably one of the best vampire flix to ever exist. Amazing soundtrack and some great 80's vibes if you like that kind of thing. A little cheesy at times, but that's what makes it special!
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Jul 27, 2020
Una de las peores películas del género de terror de vampiros y a su vez la mas sobrevalorada de todas, pésima en todo los sentidos, hasta La Cabina de Besos es mas decente que esta basura.
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