The Lost Boys is a truly excellent film. I remember how gobsmacked I was when I first watched it as a young teenager. That haunting boy choir melody takes me immediately back to the first time I saw it and gives me a chill!
This is a film that beautifully blends two elements that don't always go well together: comedy and horror. It gets it so right I'm not even sure how Joel Schumacher pulled it off. The serious and scary characters like Kiefer Sutherland's menacing David are offset beautifully by Sam, and the Frog brothers.
These two sides of the film sit neatly beside each other without ever really coming together until the climactic end. It would have been very easy indeed for this film to end up neither funny nor scary but somehow it manages to be both through neat dialogue, simple jokes, and outstanding pacing.
I sat through this again last night for the first time in years and I savoured every minute, and was stunned to see a lowly rating of 7.2 on here. Poor show IMDb reviewers. The blistering soundtrack is just the icing on the cake. 9/10
This is a film that beautifully blends two elements that don't always go well together: comedy and horror. It gets it so right I'm not even sure how Joel Schumacher pulled it off. The serious and scary characters like Kiefer Sutherland's menacing David are offset beautifully by Sam, and the Frog brothers.
These two sides of the film sit neatly beside each other without ever really coming together until the climactic end. It would have been very easy indeed for this film to end up neither funny nor scary but somehow it manages to be both through neat dialogue, simple jokes, and outstanding pacing.
I sat through this again last night for the first time in years and I savoured every minute, and was stunned to see a lowly rating of 7.2 on here. Poor show IMDb reviewers. The blistering soundtrack is just the icing on the cake. 9/10