The Lost Boys

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The Lost Boys is a horror-comedy film, which was directed by Joel Schumacher. It was released to the cinemas in the USA on 31 July 1987.The film at Box Office Mojo
== Plot ==
Michael Emerson and his younger brother Sam move with their recently divorced mother Lucy from Phoenix, Arizona to the fictional small beach town of Santa Carla, California, to live with their eccentric maternal grandfather.
Lucy gets a job at a video store owned by bachelor Max. Michael becomes fascinated by Star, a beautiful girl he spots on the boardwalk, though she seems to be with David, the leader of a biker gang.
In the local comic book store, Sam meets brothers Edgar and Alan Frog, a pair of self-proclaimed vampire hunters. They give a skeptical Sam horror comics to teach him about the undead threat they claim has infiltrated the town.
Through Star, Michael is drawn into the orbit of David's motorcycle gang. They challenge him with several tests of courage and offer him initiation into the gang. During a meal in their hangout, an abandoned luxury hotel sunken beneath the cliff by the 1906 earthquake, Star warns Michael that an offered bottle is blood, but he disregards her and drinks from it.
Michael begins to undergo a transformation; his eyes become sensitive to sunlight, the smell of food revolts him, and his reflection becomes translucent. He develops a craving for blood and attempts to attack his brother Sam, but is stopped by Sam's dog Nanook. Sam is terrified, but Michael convinces him that he is not yet a vampire and needs his help. Sam deduces that, as Michael has not yet killed, he is a "half-vampire" and his condition is reversible upon the head vampire's death. Sam and the Frog Brothers suspect Max of being the head vampire, but while Max is over at Sam's house for dinner with Lucy, they observe that he has a reflection.
David tries to provoke Michael into killing but Michael repeatedly refuses. Star reveals that she and Laddie, the youngest of the gang, are also still partly human and that David intended for Michael to be Star's first kill, sealing her fate as a vampire.
Michael leads Sam and the Frog Brothers to the gang's lair during the day, when they are asleep. They impale one vampire, Marko, with a wood stake, awakening the others. The boys escape, rescuing Star and Laddie. Realizing the gang will come after them that night, the teens arm themselves with holy water-filled water guns, a longbow and stakes, barricading themselves in the house. When night falls, David's gang attacks. The Frog Brothers, Sam, and Nanook take out two of the gang while Michael and David battle each other. David is impaled, but there is no change in Michael, Star, or Laddie, forcing the group to conclude they still have not accounted for the head vampire.
Lucy and Max return home from a date. Max says he is the head vampire, attributing his reflection earlier to the fact that Michael invited him into the house. Max explains that he instructed David to turn Sam and Michael into vampires so that Lucy could not refuse to be transformed herself, as his objective had been to make Lucy mother for his lost boys. As Max pulls Lucy to him, preparing to transform her, Grandpa crashes his truck through the wall of the house, impaling Max on a wooden fence post and causing him to explode. Michael, Star and Laddie then return to normal. When Lucy, Michael, and Sam go to see if Grandpa is all right, he replies, "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires."
== Cast ==
* Jason Patric as Michael Emerson
* Corey Haim as Sam Emerson
* Dianne Wiest as Lucy Emerson
* Barnard Hughes as Grandpa
* Edward Herrmann as Max
* Kiefer Sutherland as David
* Jami Gertz as Star
* Corey Feldman as Edgar Frog
* Jamison Newlander as Alan Frog
* Brooke McCarter as Paul
* Billy Wirth as Dwayne
* Alex Winter as Marko
* Chance Michael Corbitt as Laddie
* Alexander Bacan Chapman as Greg
* Nori Morgan as Shelly
* Kelly Jo Minter as Maria
* Tim Cappello as Beach Concert Star
==References==
Category:1987 films
Category:Warner Bros. films
Category:Warner Bros. Pictures films
Category:Rated R
Category:Films directed by Joel Schumacher
Category:Films on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray
Category:2:35:1 Aspect Ratio Films
Category:2:39:1 Aspect Ratio Films
Category:Atlantic Records soundtracks