Customer Reviews
Sleep all day! Party all night! 
2008-10-08
THE LOST BOYS is not a comedy yet has many comedy aspects. This film never took itself too seriously but it didn't make fun of itself either. The scary moments, when they come, convey the real horror of life and death without mocking it. The Lost Boys along with a few Vampire Films from the 80's helped establish what we view as the modern Vampire. This film was written by Janice Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam. Directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, Brooke McCarter and Dianne Wiest.
A mother takes her 2 sons to California to move in with her father after her recent divorce. The oldest son makes friends with the wrong crowd and the younger makes friends with a couple boys claiming to be Vampire Hunters. Strange murders are happening around the area and the oldest brother learns that he might have been transformed to a vampire by his new found friends. The younger brother must now try and save him along with his new Vampire studying friends. The Lost Boys is a must watch for any horror fan, a Cult Classic! we all know that Vampires Sleep all Day and Party all night!
What A Classic !!! 2008-09-27
WOW! loved the Bluray Quality !!
It's a Must-have for any Bluray owner!
Huge upgrade from DVD quality.
Bluray Review not movie review 2008-09-09
First of all I have to say this is one of the best transfers to bluray I have seen for an 80's movie. Trust me i have seen/own some subpar ones like T2 and Total Recall. I put this movie in and watched it on my 65 plasma and my wife thought it was a newer movie just released thats how good the picture is. I also showed this to some of my friends and they also admitted that the quality on this was jaw dropping for such an old movie. If you like the movie and want to upgrade to a better quality then don't hesitate to buy this one you won't regret it. Also to note those who say the blu ray version is subpar you might wanna adjust your HD settings to make sure you are getting the most out of it. I had my TV on the factory settings and the picture quality on my blurays were pretty disappointing it wasn't until I started reading some of these reviews that I realized the factory settings were not getting the most out of the HD experience.
A classic of my era 
2008-09-08
What can I say? This is a classic of my generation! Not only does it have good special effects but what they did to the whole classic vampire story was aewsome.Good movie,Good atmospheric cinematography and it was filmed in Santa Cruz!!!If you like vampire movies that don't take themselves too seriously or if your an 80's movie buff then by all means,Get it!!!
Movie: 3.25/5 Picture Quality: 3.25~4/5 Sound Quality: 3.75/5 Extras: 3.25/5 
2008-09-05
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
Title: The Lost Boys
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 1:37:26
Movie size: 17,221,939,200 bytes
Disc size: 26,668,952,324 bytes
Average video bit rate: 16.58 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1778 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1778kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio German 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Italian 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 192 kbps 1.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Subtitles: English / Danish / Dutch / Finnish / French / German / Italian / Japanese / Norwegian / Portuguese / Spanish / Swedish
Number of chapters: 32
#Audio Commentary
#Featurette: "Lost Boys: A Retrospective" (SD, 24 minutes)
#Additional Featurettes (SD)
#"Haimster & Feldog/Multi-Angle Featurette" (SD, 23 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD, 12 minutes)
#Vampires Photo Gallery (SD, 10 minutes)
#Music Video (SD)
#Theatrical Trailer (HD)
An 80's horror hit that has never looked better. 2008-08-29
Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires.
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Burn Rubber Does Not Mean Warp Speed! 2008-08-28
I remember winning free tickets to this movie when I was a teenager. It rocked then and still rocks now. It was slick, ultra cool, and dark just like any good vampire movie should be. While this may not be a "classic" film, it's definitely a cult classic. And let's not forget the soundtrack which I still play to this day. And as for the recent sequel (Lost Boys, The Tribe), all I can I say is "Cry Little Sister."
A Satisfying Horror-Fantasy Flick (Rating: 3.5 of 5) 2008-08-13
Far from being a perfect film, or even great for that matter, it is none the less a movie that will live on. As with anything, time can be very revealing. But things that seem pretentious and awkward now, were felt wholly different circa '87. But that happens with any film as it dates, and that is not the reason why I give it a 3.5 rather than a 4 or 4.5 (on to that later).
Whatever its faults, this film has a lot going for it, including a stellar cast. This film, as you should know, set off the careers of many talented people. As good a director Joel is, there was certainly potential to screw this one up bad, had Jason Patric or even Kiefer Sutherland been miscast (or not cast).
More on the positive, is the sheer atmosphere of this film. We CAN certainly thank Joel for his awesome direction there. Because, really, anything is tolerable with great visuals and tonality. Also, typically, it is very tough to cross-genre in a movie like this. It has been done before, but rarely to this amount of success. This film flips back and forth suitably between drama, horror, adult-romance and slap stick. Thank Joel and the cast equally.
My quibble is that this film tends to feel too rushed near the end. I read somewhere that they didn't have a lot of time, but even so. Laying it all on so thick at the end, for me, made it feel ham-fisted. It is ham-fisted, heavy-handed, etc. I guess I could've done with a little less slap-stick, so to speak. But, whatever...
This is still a groundbreaking film for its time. There was very little of that kind of imagery going on pre-Lost era '87. Visually this film is intense.
I liked it. I recommend it.
Love this movie! 2008-08-04
I've loved this movie since I was a teenager, and watching it again as an adult, it is still a great movie!
Essential viewing for vampire fans 2008-08-04
The Lost Boys stands out as one of the finest examples of an 80's teen horror/comedy movie themed around vampires that this reviewer has seen, (amazingly other movies that fall into that category actually exist!). While it ocassionally treads into some rather corny territory as far as the humor goes, it still maintains enough seriousness to go down as a solid vampire movie.
In short, a mother and her two sons, Sam and Michael, move to the town of Santa Carla, the "murder capital of the world". When the two brothers decide to explore town, Michael falls into a bad crowd of kids. By "bad" I don't mean that they do drugs and vandalize city property, by "bad" I mean that they are really vampires and every night they go out and kill people to satisfy their blood thirst. Once they convert Michael into one of their own, his younger brother Sam embarks on a mission to save his brother's soul along with the help of two goofy self-proclaimed vampire hunters that work in a comic book shop.
One thing I'll say about The Lost Boys is that if it didn't star Feldman and Haim, I'd have never guessed this was from 1987. This movie has aged magnificently as there is hardly a shred of evidence to indicate that it's over twenty years old, I'd have guessed it was from the mid ninety's perhaps. Looking at The Lost Boys from a horror/comedy standpoint, it is neither scary nor laugh out loud funny. However with its mix of darker subject material and light hearted humor, it is indeed a very fun movie to watch and the replay value is high. If you love vampires and/or horror movies, consider The Lost Boys essential viewing. Thanks for reading!
