Winter Sucks 2024: The Lost Boys (1987) 4K Restoration
Director: Joel Schumacher Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Barnard Hughes, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Jason Patric
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Winner of the 1988 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, Schumacher’s iconic vampire horror-comedy is an entertaining blend of visual style and standout performances with a jam-packed 80s soundtrack.
A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it’s overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires that they suspect of a few mysterious murders and restore peace and calm to their town.
“sprightly and satirical 80s spin on JM Barrie’s “lost boys”… being forever young isn’t a sweet Edwardian evocation of innocence, but a vision of pure hell”
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
About the filmmaker:
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film The Lost Boys (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two controversial superhero films Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Several of his films competed at major film festivals, including 8MM (1999) at Berlin, Veronica Guerin (2003) at San Sebastián, and Falling Down (1993) at Cannes. His final high-profile film was the Golden Globe-nominated musical adaptation The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
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