Synopsis
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
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Cast
- Jason PatricMichael Emerson
- Corey HaimSam Emerson
- Dianne WiestLucy Emerson
- Barnard HughesGrandpa
- Edward HerrmannMax
- Kiefer SutherlandDavid
- Jami GertzStar
- Corey FeldmanEdgar Frog
- Jamison NewlanderAlan Frog
- Brooke McCarterPaul
Recommendations
- 100
The A.V. Club
Corey Haim plus Corey Feldman plus Joel Schumacher doesn't seem like a foolproof formula for a good movie, but when the three oft-maligned figures united for 1987's horror-comedy The Lost Boys, the result was briskly entertaining. - 80
Empire
The Lost Boys remains a supremely watchable example of something the '80s did right. - 80
The New York Times
The Lost Boys is to horror movies what ''Late Night With David Letterman'' is to television; it laughs at the form it embraces, adds a rock-and-roll soundtrack and, if you share its serious-satiric attitude, manages to be very funny. - 75
Boston Globe
The Lost Boys is schlock, but it's juicy schlock. [31 Jul 1987, p.34] - 70
Chicago Reader
Another early youth ensemble pic from St. Elmo's Fire director Joel Schumacher, with an aspiring-to-hipness cast. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
There's some good stuff in the movie, including a cast that's good right down the line and a willingness to have some fun with teenage culture in the Mass Murder Capital. But when everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with - no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination - just technique at the service of formula. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Part horror, part comedy, THE LOST BOYS is a vampire thriller that brings some interesting twists to the genre, but is nearly defeated by director Joel Schumacher's heavy-handed efforts to bring an MTV-like sensibility to the traditionally gothic material. Despite its flaws, however, the film is an interesting addition to vampire cinema. - 60
Washington Post
The film loses courage (or imagination) and hews to the Spielberg school of climactic denouement, so that teen farce and special effects take over. By the time the thing has played out, that subtle scare/laugh mix is a thing of the past and you feel as though you just walked out of "Breaking Away" or Goonies. Ah well.
