The Lost Boys (1987)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman
"The Lost Boys" tells the story of a family moving to Santa Carla, California only to find that the town is plagued with vampire teens, picking off the town's population one by one. Dianne Wiest offers the film's best performance as the mother of the two teen boys, Michael and Sam (played by Patric and Haim respectively), but even that is not enough to save the film from it's fatal flaws. Micheal's descent into the immortal occurs so quickly that he ends up a flat, one-dimensional character: stupid teen turned sassy teen vampire. Albeit, this movie recognizes itself to be a campy take on the vampire genre. The problem remains that the movie lacks the fundamental entertainment value necessary to excuse it's camp qualities.
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