Love of Vampires

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Ah, yes…  The Lost Boys – get your vampire fix AND your 1980′s fix all in one movie!

I hadn’t seen The Lost Boys in years, literally.  And so when walking through the store the other day and coming upon the glare of David (Kiefer Sutherland, a super young Kiefer at that!) and Ray Bans and tousled hair of Jason Patric, I couldn’t resist!

I actually love the premise of this movie.  Family moves to city (happens to be the murder capitol of the US), son falls in with the hooligans (vampires, yay!) of the town and starts to act (gasp!) like a teenager, and younger brother has to help his brother and save the day.

Yes, the elder brother falls in with the wrong crowd, namely some rocker, biker teenaged vampires with totally bangin’ 80′s hair while following a beautiful woman and ends up drinking blood out of a bottle in the ruins of a building in a cave on the coast. I hate it when that happens!  He then starts to turn vampire.

His little brother, who also happens to be a comic book fanatic, teams up with a pair of brat pack vampire hunters.  He then commits to helping his half vampire brother and vows to save him from the vampire life.   All the while the mother is dating some spiffy dude with a dog named Fang, who happens to be way more than he seems.

Yes, this movie was totally predictable (even though I had already seen it a few times!)  But, I have to say… I like a movie with the classic vampire elements and legends.  These vampires were mean – monsters of the night.  They could come out at night, they had bad breath, hated garlic, had no reflection, could only come in when invited, could fly, and found holy water to act a bit like acid.  But these vampires have amazing feathered hair (bring on the Aqua Net!) and punk rock duds.

In this day of brooding and angsty vampires, it was great to get back a story of vampires being monsters – and they really don’t make movies like the classic movies from the 1980′s!  Just the soundtrack alone is amazingly amusing.

The Lost Boys, not one of my favorite vampire movies of all time, but I truly think it was significant in the evolution of the modern vampire.  It had classic elements but also made these creatures “cool” and able to live in the world without people realizing what they really were.  It’s definitely a movie for a true vampire collection.

VVV (3 Fangs for The Lost Boys)

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