10 Best Joel Schumacher Films
2. The Lost Boys
It’s surprising that a film so quintessentially 1980s as The Lost Boys has aged so well. A bloodthirsty retelling of the Peter Pan story, The Lost Boys isn’t the only film to posit vampires as the rock stars of the supernatural world, but it might make the most convincing argument.
The plot is delightfully simple: a family moves to a small town which quickly turns out to be infested by motorbike riding, leather clad vampires. Older brother Michael falls in with a bad crowd, as ‘80s teens are wont to do, and young Sam must free him from the clutches of the fanged fiends.
The Lost Boys combines the talents of Coreys Haim and Feldman with Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland in another of his swaggering bully roles that he excelled in throughout the decade. With Dianne Wiest and Edward Herrmann gamely playing the adult roles, it’s a particularly stacked cast (at the time, anyway - some of the above didn’t find much to do the following decades).
It’s a young adult movie that doesn’t skimp on the scares or gore, with a killer soundtrack and one of the funniest ending jokes in cinema. Like its sunlight dodging subjects, it’s ageless.