This movie and the original "Fright Night" were THE vampire movies of the 80's. Dirt Bikes, Kiefer, the 2 Corey's, great one-liners...You can not get more 80's than this movie.
John Carpenter's Vampires in the 90s was quite decent too, cant leave out mentioning the superb From Dusk Till Dawn either in that decade. No idea why Twilight became a hit, it was total garbage compared to the 80s and 90s classics.
RIP Corey Haim. I was fairly young in the 80's but I remember him well. It would be amazing to see actors like him and River Phoenix today if they'd gotten through those times.
RIP, to those that were involved with the project: Joel Schumacher, Director Richard Donner, Producer Harvey Bernhard, Producer Michael Chapman, Cinematographer Jeffrey Boam, Screenwriter Bernard Hughes, Grandpa Corey Haim, Sam Brooke McCarter, Paul Edward Hermann, Max
The sax player is Tim Capello. He still tours with that song. The guitarist behind him is the late Peggy Jones, aka Lady Bo, who played with Bo Diddly for a long time.
He also was featured with the 80 synthwave band Gunship as the character he was in Lost Boys! The song is called Dark all Day. He sports his muscular look and everything! It’s great!
I remember when Jami Gertz (Star) was on an evening talk show, she told a story about when she moved away from home into her own apartment in New York to pursue her acting career. Her dad helped her get moved in, and he did his best to treat her as an independent adult, but as he left, he stopped to talked to the doorman and everyone who worked at the apartment building. He gave each of them a hundred dollar bill, and, almost in tears, he asked each of them "Please take care of my little girl!" "Please take care of my little girl!" I thought that was a very cute dad story.
Believe it or not I saw this when I was 17 years old in the 80’s at the theater, a midnight show. So walking home it was about 2:00 a.m. …….through the high school parking lot, where I saw my first ever bats flying around eating bugs circling the tall light posts. Needless to say, I pulled up my collar and walked a lot faster.
awesome soundtrack, one of the first CD's I bought and actually listening to it now then watching Lost Boys afterwards... Beauty has her way.... wow what a song! sends shivers down my spine. As does them all - Cry Little sister - well, love the deep bass and vampire organ sequence!
"You're a god-damned shit sucking vampire, Michael. Wait until mom finds out." One of my favorite lines ever. Also as someone else posted, Near Dark is an awesome movie.
In some vampire lore you have to willingly drink the blood in order to become a vampire. That's why they were messing with his perception with the food being maggots and worms. When Star tells him the truth about it being blood he doesn't believe her and drinks it willingly. Great reaction, glad you guys enjoyed the film!
Excellent explanation. Initially like them, I always viewed it as "they kero messing with you why trust them". But it's prank based reverse trust, like gaslighting. They prank him with the suggestion that its maggots, but it really was just rice, so it's like a process of wearing down his defenses, his fearful trust in his senses, to the point he'll drink what tastes like blood, overtly, believing he's just being sensitive.
I'd add that in most vampire movies you have to be bitten by a vampire to start the transformation , but certainly vampire science is not exact , most movies have their own twist to the vampire lore .
@@ravissary79 Michael really thought it was wine, though, so maybe David messed with his sense of taste, as well. Add a little peer pressure and machismo, and we've got a new "half-vampire".
One of my very, very favorite vampire movies. It has the right amount of horror and humor. Solid soundtrack too. Cry Little Sister is such a moody song. Lou Graham's title track is pop rock PERFECTION.
This was filmed in Santa Cruz, CA, which actually was the murder capital of the world for a little while (though it was solely because there was a serial killer living in the woods above town). I lived there for some years, and I know all the locations in this film. Grandpa's house (at least from the outside) is a place up on Highway 9, the home of a chainsaw sculptor who made big animal figures out of redwood logs. The boardwalk is famous, and I knew that comic book store, as well. It's a real walk down memory lane, watching this movie. :)
you wanna see murder capitol look up east st louis. It may have changed now but at one point the chances of being murdered there were 19 times the national average. National Average was 5 murders for 100,000 people. E St Louis in 2018 it was 113 for 100,000.
I grew up in Santa Cruz. I once lived in the apartments right next to the train trestle bridge they all hang from in one of the most iconic scene from this movie. It definitely is a walk down memory lane. I wonder if TBR or Samantha realize they just did back to back reaction of 2 movies that were both filmed (mostly) in Santa Cruz. LOL
One of my most favorite movies and definitely my favorite vampire movie. This also has an amazing soundtrack. Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMann was the song that played a lot. It fits this movie so well. Also the vampire effects were incredible. Jami Gertz played Star, you might know her from the movie Twister.
Strange that I did not make the style connection. I appeared on Angel several times and now that I think 0f it, the wardrobe on that show was definitely influenced by the Lost Boys.
1987 was a good year :D Lost Boys basically rewrote some Vampire Lore that every story since has followed. Caves for coffins, sunlight causing actual combustion rather than just fading away into nothing... ... and if I remember rightly, the half-Vampire thing where they only become full after drinking blood for the first time was invented for The Lost Boys. I've got a feeling that killing the head Vampire and all others will return to human beings, was also invented for this movie. I might be wrong on that though. - The inviting thing as well, was a twist on the original lore. It was said originally in Bram Stoker's novel, that a Vampire can only genuinely hurt you if you voluntarily enter its home, as in, you are accepting of Dracula's presence, which is why he had to work hard to get Lucy Westenra to submit to his will... and The Lost Boys twisted it into "If you invite a Vampire into your house, it renders you powerless."
The invitation thing comes from at least the 17h century if not before. Leona Allatius wrote in one of his manuscripts that vampires are not able to hurt citizens and their homes unless they enter after the response of the owners at the door.
Casting a spell can restore the block, as done in Buffy after Angel turned back into a nasty, and Willow cast a spell so he cant go into the house (more to torment Buffy than kill her)
My favorite part will always be the reveal at the end that Grandpa knew all along what was going on. But I assume he was never able to figure out who the head vampire was so he just pretended to be a harmless and clueless old man.
An 80's classic! Incredible soundtrack, great cast, amazing mullets (Alex Winter's is particularly glorious), the two Coreys (RIP to Haim) and the quintessential 80's mom Dianne Wiest.
Wiest is terrific as the domestic violence victim, married to wife beater Cliff De Young in 1983's underrated drama Independence Day, not to be confused with the much later silly sci-fi movie.
I fell in love with Dianne when I saw her in this. Dee Wallace could have played the mom role, but Dianne got an Oscar for "Hannah And Her Sisters". Brad Pitt noted somewhere that she's one of his favorite character actresses.
Michael wasn't bothered too much by the sun as he wasn't a full vampire yet. Don't become a full vampire til first kill (has to be a feed. drink the blood eg). Star and Laddie were also half vampires not having first feed yet.
Keifer Sutherland's vampire was a 50's punk kid, so I like to think it is the same character he played in Stand by Me. Like, he just moved to California and was killed by Max. By the way, if you have never seen 24, Seson 1 is stand-alone and just excellent. (He was also in a Few Good Men, which you have seen, unless I am misremembering.)
I thought they did a pretty good job covering Star's warning that he was about to drink blood. He'd just been told he was eating maggots, and freaked out, then he was told noodles were worms, and freaked out again, so of course when he was told "that wine is blood," he naturally wouldn't believe it. Rule of threes.
Really happy you guys enjoyed The Lost Boys. Its just a fun film that captures that time in the 80s. Yes, people did dress like that. Tim Cappello the "greased up sax guy" is one if the nicest guys. He played saxaphone for Tina Turner and features in the the Song "Dark all Day" by Gunship. Such a great vampire based music video. You should check out 24 when you finish Sopranos. Kiefer is so good in it.
The first vampire the Frog Brothers stake in the cave is Alex Winter, who played Bill from the Bill and Ted movies. The Lost Boys is such a great Vampire movie. That is how Vampires are supposed to act…Makes the Twilight Sparkly Vampires look absolutely ridiculous!
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, the 2 Coreys. This movie started off their career and friendship together. Check these out. License to Drive (1988) Dream a Little Dream (1989) Blown Away (1993)
I was about 11 when this came out, and it was my all-time favorite movie for ages. I had it memorized. It wasn't shockingly gory to me as I had already seen much scarier (and less sexy) horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street (and it's sequels), The Howling (and it's sequels), Salem's Lot, An American Werewolf in London, and more long before this movie came out. This is where I would say vampires started to be more sexy and less grotesque in TV and films, and the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman) were a movie dream team for teenage-oriented films at the time. Plus it has a killer soundtrack, lots of comedy, and a really fresh take on the vampire genre. This was a huge hit when it came out, especially when it started being replayed on cable (we had VCRs back then, but it replayed so often on cable that all you really needed to do was check the TV guide to see when it would be on). Now it's about 36 years later (holy crap!) and it's still just as enjoyable to me now as it was back then.
Try to imagine seeing it in the the theater when it came out. The 80's cheese was just our fashion then. And this movie was really cool at the time. I LOVED it. Had a framed poster in my living room for years back then. Glad y'all had fun with it.
That's awesome! The same year _The Lost Boys_ came out, a Contemporary Christian artist called Russ Taff released his own cover of it that my super-religious barracks roommate had, and I conflated the two artists, and for years I thought Tim was actually this super-jacked Christian Rocker who slicked himself up and performed that way. I thought "Maybe there's something to this Christian Rock stuff!" It took the Web coming into fruition to disabuse me of that notion, lol. Well, anyway, Tim is awesome. Let him know next time you talk to him!
@rollomaughfling380 that's awesome.. Tim has been going to conventions and things of that nature lately to sign autographs, specifically anything to do with The Lost Boys a cult classic indeed. The last we spoke was during the pandemic. So it's been a while.
Two of my favorite vampire films came out the same year and couldn't be more different. It was "The Lost Boys" and "Near Dark." Maybe you could do "Near Dark" for Halloween, although it is hard to see these days. The other classic vampire film from the 80's you should see is "Fright Night" which presents the legend of the vampire in it's own modern way as well.
You guys should watch 'Flatliners'. A quite suspenseful thriller with Kiefer Sutherland. The 90's original that is. Haven't seen the more recent remake/sequel.
In the comics written after the films, Grandpa is revealed to be a half-vampire and his "soda" is actually blood. Corey Feldman patterned his voice after Rambo.
The concept for this movie grew out of the question, "What if the Lost Boys in Peter Pan were actually vampires?". The dog's name (Nanook) is a reference to Nana, the dog in the Disney adaptation of Peter Pan.
'Ripped Sax Player' is Tim Cappello. He actually toured with Tina Turner for a while. 'I Still Believe' is his only partial hit that I know of. I've secretly loved that song since I was a kid.
The wonderful Dianne Wiest (Lucy) had a diverse "Mom" career in the 80's. She was burdened with a self-righteous preacher husband and community in "Footloose" (1984), and then she had to deal with vampires coming after her kids! She fared much better two years later as the less-troubled Mom in "Parenthood" (1989) with Steve Martin. Parenthood has a great script and a magnificent cast.
Wonderful reaction as always! Pure 80s entertainment and so rewatchable! For more great movies with The Coreys, give License to Drive (1988) & Dream a little Dream (1989) a try.
While License to Drive has some elements that have not aged great, I still find it an 80's teen classic. Dream A Little Dream is a weird one (and it's even weirder sequel) but they are fun watches.
This movie was my whole childhood. I would wear red bandannas like Edgar Frog. I’d be constantly quoting the film (I knew every line) It still has a special place in my heart thank you for watching it
I was living in Santa Cruz and selling tickets at the Boardwalk when this came out, so seeing the movie in the theater was extra fun for me. Still one of my favorite vampire movies. And a legendary 80s soundtrack.
I'm now convinced that you guys have a direct feed to my brain! This last month or so has been my top ten fav films! And now you watch my number 2 all time fav movie! Keep up the amazing work!
Google lost boys saxophone guy. When the film came out, the don't-invite-a-vampire-inside thing was a much more obscure vampire rule that audiences could easily have missed.
By the way, Kiefer and Keanu starred in a film together in the 80's called "Brotherhood of Justice". In an interesting twist, Kiefer is the good guy in that film. It's a Very Serious Teen Movie, really fun 80's stuff. :D
my funniest thing about keifer sutherland is I mistook him for his father, so when I watched 24 I kept waiting for donald to show up untill I realized my mistake.
The soundtrack is fire. To today, I STILL have this in ny ALL-TIME FAVORITES. It's a Corey's movie (both boyos) and people never notice Ted from "Bill and Ted's Awesome Adventure" is Marco the vampire with curly hair.
The movie started with a Doors song “People are Strange” - so the poster was a homage to The Doors. A movie with Bradley Cooper called Van Helsing explains many of the rules of vampires and werewolves (also includes Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde as monsters).
Believe it or not, this was my very first horror film. At first, i thought The Lost Boys was straight up scary but after my first time watching it for the first time, it was a very fun film, aside from being scary, it's also a very hilarious and wild. I loved it not only for it's blend of horror and comedy, but for for the way it introduced me to the horror genre.
I think the Jim Morrison mural, especially with how it crossfaded with Michael's face, was supposed to be about the "live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse", "immortality" sort of celebrity cult around gorgeous people who died young and thus never had to grow old
I saw this film at the Dream Theater (a very _boho_ theater with couches and pillows to sit on in some areas) when I was stationed in Monterey, CA, which is just down the Monterey Bay coast from Santa Cruz on the PCH, where the movie was primarily filmed. Santa Carla, Santa Cruz, you get it. About a 45-minute drive away and a great park on the boardwalk, which you saw in the film, I had a lot of wonderful memories made there as a 20- 21 y/o. This movie is inextricably woven into that magical time in my life. I got to know Kiefer a little bit years later after I moved to LA, through running into him at bars and a bit of side work we did together years later while he was also doing *_24,_* and we talked about that experience at a premiere. He's a great, solid dude, and I'd love to run into him again. So this was a real blast from the past for me. Loved this reaction-great job, guys!
Michael is actor Jason Patric, son of Jason Miller, the priest in "The Exorcist," and grandson of actor and entertainer Jackie Gleason ("The Honeymooners").
Between 1985 and 1987 three iconic vampire movies were released. This movie and Near Dark were both released in 87, but the best of all was Fright Night , from 85. Please check out the other two if you can.
I remember seeing this in the theatres...it was so much fun!! 2 years later Bill and Ted release and I got so excited when I saw Alex Winter (Marko from Lost Boys) playing Bill!! Another awesome movie from the 80's! I had the biggest crush on Kiefer Sutherland and the 2 Coreys. And yes...the 80's were amazing. Best music and some pretty awesome movies! Great reaction guys!!
I love everything about this movie. I saw it in the theatre multiple times when it was released. I was *obsessed* with the soundtrack (I was dying when Sam said, "This is like the third time we've heard this song!" and he was like, "What?"). As for the end, when you were a little confused about Max saying, "If you invite a vampire in, it renders you powerless", I always took it to mean that you couldn't use any tricks like mirrors or holy water to discern if they were a vampire, but obviously if you stabbed them in the heart or cut off their head, they would die. So, in the final battle, since the tribe wasn't invited in, the holy water did affect them. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING ME BACK TO THE 80s!!!
I was in middle school when it came out and loved it. It’s still one my favorite vampire movies. The sax player is a musician I saw in person when I went to see Tina Turner in concert in the 90’s. He was full of energy just like in the movie and so much fun to watch. He’s a very talented musician.
I was excited you and Samantha reacted to this movie. Lost Boys is one my favorite movies from the 80's growing up and my top vampire movie of all time. Samantha pointing out the "Cry Little Sister" song a number of times to you during the movie was comical 😂 Continue the great work with your channel and continue bringing smiles to all that follow you both!
This movie was a favorite among my friends when we were kids! We watched it over and over. It was the first sort of adult themed movies we were allowed to see and we LOVED it!
this is my favorite vampire movie i seen it so many times i never get tired of it they dont make movies like this anymore my second favorite vampire movie has to be fright night 1985
Grandpa was an OG. He always knew about the vampires. He had those long pole stakes ready in case of a vampire emergency. Great reaction to a classic movie.
*Common tropes for becoming a vampire:* •Bitten/killed by a vampire. You then rise a vampire. •Must be bitten 3 times (3rd time kills you), then you rise a vampire. •You have to be bitten _and_ drink from the vampire that bit you. Then you become a vampire (I believe we really only start to see this one in media from the 80's on¹). _"To make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood and then you have to suck their blood._ _It's a whole big sucking thing."_ ~Buffy These are not the _only ways_ depicted in film and TV, just common ones. *EDIT:* 32:47 Had *Grandpa* said anything when they arrived, do you think anyone would have taken him seriously? 🧛🏻♂️ ··•●✺●•·· ¹ ─ 🤔 Now, that's somewhat anecdotal. So, I'm gonna have to look into that further.
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This movie and the original "Fright Night" were THE vampire movies of the 80's. Dirt Bikes, Kiefer, the 2 Corey's, great one-liners...You can not get more 80's than this movie.
John Carpenter's Vampires in the 90s was quite decent too, cant leave out mentioning the superb From Dusk Till Dawn either in that decade. No idea why Twilight became a hit, it was total garbage compared to the 80s and 90s classics.
Don't forget "Vamp" and "Near Dark".
RIP Corey Haim. I was fairly young in the 80's but I remember him well. It would be amazing to see actors like him and River Phoenix today if they'd gotten through those times.
@@trevf3517 Haha James Woods in that Vampires movie was so damn funny. "Garlic !?!?!" haha
Bruh, nobody has yet to react to the original Fright Night. Chris Sarandon was a PIMP
RIP, to those that were involved with the project:
Joel Schumacher, Director
Richard Donner, Producer
Harvey Bernhard, Producer
Michael Chapman, Cinematographer
Jeffrey Boam, Screenwriter
Bernard Hughes, Grandpa
Corey Haim, Sam
Brooke McCarter, Paul
Edward Hermann, Max
presumably all vampires now
Paul is played by Brooke?
'Near Dark' with Bill Paxton, from the same year, is a much better film.
Wow they all died making this Vampire movie!
Damn, that’s sad. Didn’t realize how many people from that project passed away.
"It started out almost like a kids movie and then went complete horror...gory."
I feel like you're starting to understand GenX, 😂😂
Lmao. Yep.
The sax player is Tim Capello. He still tours with that song. The guitarist behind him is the late Peggy Jones, aka Lady Bo, who played with Bo Diddly for a long time.
Tim Capello has become a legend in his own right because of this movie. Doesn't he make conventions and all?
He also was featured with the 80 synthwave band Gunship as the character he was in Lost Boys! The song is called Dark all Day. He sports his muscular look and everything! It’s great!
Also, he was Tina Turner's touring and studio sax player for years and years.
@@sidewaysoul Is he on any of her studio work, or just concert recordings?
And he has his own action figure!
I remember when Jami Gertz (Star) was on an evening talk show, she told a story about when she moved away from home into her own apartment in New York to pursue her acting career. Her dad helped her get moved in, and he did his best to treat her as an independent adult, but as he left, he stopped to talked to the doorman and everyone who worked at the apartment building. He gave each of them a hundred dollar bill, and, almost in tears, he asked each of them "Please take care of my little girl!" "Please take care of my little girl!" I thought that was a very cute dad story.
Believe it or not I saw this when I was 17 years old in the 80’s at the theater, a midnight show. So walking home it was about 2:00 a.m. …….through the high school parking lot, where I saw my first ever bats flying around eating bugs circling the tall light posts. Needless to say, I pulled up my collar and walked a lot faster.
LOL
Had that damn "Cry Little Sister" (Thou shalt not kill) song in my head for 36 years.
awesome soundtrack, one of the first CD's I bought and actually listening to it now then watching Lost Boys afterwards...
Beauty has her way.... wow what a song! sends shivers down my spine. As does them all - Cry Little sister - well, love the deep bass and vampire organ sequence!
Marilyn Mason does a pretty awesome cover of it if you want a new version to listen to for a change.
It’s been a goddamn curse since I first saw this movie when I’m 8 years old. “CRRRRRYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER”
IT'S SO GOOD
I actually keep an Android app on my phone that simulates a Zippo lighter... just in case I rewatch this movie or otherwise hear Cry Little Sister.
"You're a god-damned shit sucking vampire, Michael. Wait until mom finds out." One of my favorite lines ever. Also as someone else posted, Near Dark is an awesome movie.
In some vampire lore you have to willingly drink the blood in order to become a vampire. That's why they were messing with his perception with the food being maggots and worms. When Star tells him the truth about it being blood he doesn't believe her and drinks it willingly. Great reaction, glad you guys enjoyed the film!
Excellent explanation. Initially like them, I always viewed it as "they kero messing with you why trust them". But it's prank based reverse trust, like gaslighting. They prank him with the suggestion that its maggots, but it really was just rice, so it's like a process of wearing down his defenses, his fearful trust in his senses, to the point he'll drink what tastes like blood, overtly, believing he's just being sensitive.
I'd add that in most vampire movies you have to be bitten by a vampire to start the transformation , but certainly vampire science is not exact , most movies have their own twist to the vampire lore .
I have been watching this movie for many years and it never dawned on me about the maggots and worms being the lead up to him drinking the blood.
@@ravissary79 Michael really thought it was wine, though, so maybe David messed with his sense of taste, as well. Add a little peer pressure and machismo, and we've got a new "half-vampire".
„I tried to make you immortal….“
David and Michael- still a better lovestory than Twilight 😂😂😂
There's a subtle queer love story in the subtext between Michael and David.
@@LordVolkov isn’t it always with male vampires? 😂
@@BlankSpace83 It does go with the territory 🧛🏻
@@LordVolkov Well, they do like to suck, & swallow bodily fluids....🥒💦
@@williamshelton4318 surprised David didn't have nipples on his jacket
One of my very, very favorite vampire movies.
It has the right amount of horror and humor.
Solid soundtrack too.
Cry Little Sister is such a moody song.
Lou Graham's title track is pop rock PERFECTION.
Say Hello To The Night is a neo-goth rock banger. I still have it on playlists today.
That sweaty dude with the saxophone......what a legend. That guy is my idol
@@paulduncan9161 so you like greased up men
Who doesn't.
@@paulduncan9161 if you're gay just say so
"Star" was Bill Paxton's fiance in Twister.
This was filmed in Santa Cruz, CA, which actually was the murder capital of the world for a little while (though it was solely because there was a serial killer living in the woods above town). I lived there for some years, and I know all the locations in this film. Grandpa's house (at least from the outside) is a place up on Highway 9, the home of a chainsaw sculptor who made big animal figures out of redwood logs. The boardwalk is famous, and I knew that comic book store, as well. It's a real walk down memory lane, watching this movie. :)
you wanna see murder capitol look up east st louis. It may have changed now but at one point the chances of being murdered there were 19 times the national average. National Average was 5 murders for 100,000 people. E St Louis in 2018 it was 113 for 100,000.
@@Necrowolf81 And that has what to do with this movie or where it was filmed? You do realize this was the _80's,_ right?
@@Necrowolf81 And dude, BRAGGING about your town being insanely violent is not a good look for you.
that channel grimmlifecollective made a tour on the filming locations, very cool place!
thanks for sharing!
I grew up in Santa Cruz. I once lived in the apartments right next to the train trestle bridge they all hang from in one of the most iconic scene from this movie. It definitely is a walk down memory lane. I wonder if TBR or Samantha realize they just did back to back reaction of 2 movies that were both filmed (mostly) in Santa Cruz. LOL
One of my most favorite movies and definitely my favorite vampire movie. This also has an amazing soundtrack. Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMann was the song that played a lot. It fits this movie so well. Also the vampire effects were incredible. Jami Gertz played Star, you might know her from the movie Twister.
Holy shit he stayed with his ex over her that movie just lost all credibility to me I get compatibility and all that but its Star, Bill Paxton wtf?
The start of The Coreys.
Corey Haim starred in the 1985 adaptation of Stephen King's Silver Bullet.
I highly recommend it.
Can't forget about Gary Busey. Terrific movie.
@@Jryder-f7x And it's one of Sai King's best books. Or at least one of my favorites.
One of my favorite vampire movies ever and in my opinion The Lost Boys has the coolest looking vampires to this day in film. Love it.
Strange that I did not make the style connection. I appeared on Angel several times and now that I think 0f it, the wardrobe on that show was definitely influenced by the Lost Boys.
“Death by stereo”
RIP Corey Haim. Great review!
"You're a creature of the night Michael! You wait till mom finds out!"
He deserved so much better. RIP indeed.
1987 was a good year :D
Lost Boys basically rewrote some Vampire Lore that every story since has followed. Caves for coffins, sunlight causing actual combustion rather than just fading away into nothing...
... and if I remember rightly, the half-Vampire thing where they only become full after drinking blood for the first time was invented for The Lost Boys.
I've got a feeling that killing the head Vampire and all others will return to human beings, was also invented for this movie. I might be wrong on that though.
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The inviting thing as well, was a twist on the original lore.
It was said originally in Bram Stoker's novel, that a Vampire can only genuinely hurt you if you voluntarily enter its home, as in, you are accepting of Dracula's presence, which is why he had to work hard to get Lucy Westenra to submit to his will... and The Lost Boys twisted it into "If you invite a Vampire into your house, it renders you powerless."
The invitation thing comes from at least the 17h century if not before. Leona Allatius wrote in one of his manuscripts that vampires are not able to hurt citizens and their homes unless they enter after the response of the owners at the door.
Casting a spell can restore the block, as done in Buffy after Angel turned back into a nasty, and Willow cast a spell so he cant go into the house (more to torment Buffy than kill her)
My favorite part will always be the reveal at the end that Grandpa knew all along what was going on. But I assume he was never able to figure out who the head vampire was so he just pretended to be a harmless and clueless old man.
You mentioning Kiefer Sutherland made me think of the movie Dark City. That would be a great one for you to react to, but avoid spoilers first!
YES! i’m pretty sure i’ve mentioned Dark City on some of their other videos, always loved that movie i saw it in the theater
Dark City is amazing!
He's so great in Dark City! It's an incredibly underrated performance. His Vanity Fair (I think) segment talking about it was pretty neat.
dark city is fantastic but be sure to watch the directors cut version if doing it
Yeah, Director's Cut required on that one if you don't want it spoiled in the first few minutes. Great film.
An 80's classic!
Incredible soundtrack, great cast, amazing mullets (Alex Winter's is particularly glorious), the two Coreys (RIP to Haim) and the quintessential 80's mom Dianne Wiest.
Wiest is terrific as the domestic violence victim, married to wife beater Cliff De Young in 1983's underrated drama Independence Day, not to be confused with the much later silly sci-fi movie.
Ok because I was about to say how the hell did I gloss over that particular sidestory of the film
I fell in love with Dianne when I saw her in this. Dee Wallace could have played the mom role, but Dianne got an Oscar for "Hannah And Her Sisters". Brad Pitt noted somewhere that she's one of his favorite character actresses.
@@Madbandit77 She's in so much great stuff I can't help but love her. Her smile is so comforting.
Not all long hair is a mullet.
I had the BIGGEST crush on Jami Gertz after watching this movie. Classic vampire flick.
She is the richest actress. Billionaire.
Michael wasn't bothered too much by the sun as he wasn't a full vampire yet. Don't become a full vampire til first kill (has to be a feed. drink the blood eg). Star and Laddie were also half vampires not having first feed yet.
You drank someone’s blood? ARE YOU CRAZY?!
A good combo with this movie is Fright Night.
Keifer Sutherland's vampire was a 50's punk kid, so I like to think it is the same character he played in Stand by Me. Like, he just moved to California and was killed by Max. By the way, if you have never seen 24, Seson 1 is stand-alone and just excellent. (He was also in a Few Good Men, which you have seen, unless I am misremembering.)
Best last line of a movie ever!
I like the tribute to Edgar Allan Poe with the names of the two comic book store kids/vampire hunters.
Can't believe I never caught that.
I thought they did a pretty good job covering Star's warning that he was about to drink blood. He'd just been told he was eating maggots, and freaked out, then he was told noodles were worms, and freaked out again, so of course when he was told "that wine is blood," he naturally wouldn't believe it. Rule of threes.
Great reaction, you should do Fright Night from 1985.
Really happy you guys enjoyed The Lost Boys. Its just a fun film that captures that time in the 80s. Yes, people did dress like that.
Tim Cappello the "greased up sax guy" is one if the nicest guys. He played saxaphone for Tina Turner and features in the the Song "Dark all Day" by Gunship. Such a great vampire based music video.
You should check out 24 when you finish Sopranos. Kiefer is so good in it.
The first vampire the Frog Brothers stake in the cave is Alex Winter, who played Bill from the Bill and Ted movies. The Lost Boys is such a great Vampire movie. That is how Vampires are supposed to act…Makes the Twilight Sparkly Vampires look absolutely ridiculous!
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, the 2 Coreys. This movie started off their career and friendship together. Check these out.
License to Drive (1988)
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Blown Away (1993)
@@williamshelton4318 He goes even further with the MJ look in Rock n Roll Highschool Forever. It was definitely a phase for Feldman 😅
I was about 11 when this came out, and it was my all-time favorite movie for ages. I had it memorized. It wasn't shockingly gory to me as I had already seen much scarier (and less sexy) horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street (and it's sequels), The Howling (and it's sequels), Salem's Lot, An American Werewolf in London, and more long before this movie came out. This is where I would say vampires started to be more sexy and less grotesque in TV and films, and the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman) were a movie dream team for teenage-oriented films at the time. Plus it has a killer soundtrack, lots of comedy, and a really fresh take on the vampire genre. This was a huge hit when it came out, especially when it started being replayed on cable (we had VCRs back then, but it replayed so often on cable that all you really needed to do was check the TV guide to see when it would be on). Now it's about 36 years later (holy crap!) and it's still just as enjoyable to me now as it was back then.
Try to imagine seeing it in the the theater when it came out. The 80's cheese was just our fashion then. And this movie was really cool at the time. I LOVED it. Had a framed poster in my living room for years back then. Glad y'all had fun with it.
The saxophone player you saw in this classic is my second cousin Tim Cappello... and yes, he's a very well respected musician.
That's awesome! The same year _The Lost Boys_ came out, a Contemporary Christian artist called Russ Taff released his own cover of it that my super-religious barracks roommate had, and I conflated the two artists, and for years I thought Tim was actually this super-jacked Christian Rocker who slicked himself up and performed that way. I thought "Maybe there's something to this Christian Rock stuff!" It took the Web coming into fruition to disabuse me of that notion, lol. Well, anyway, Tim is awesome. Let him know next time you talk to him!
@rollomaughfling380 that's awesome.. Tim has been going to conventions and things of that nature lately to sign autographs, specifically anything to do with The Lost Boys a cult classic indeed. The last we spoke was during the pandemic. So it's been a while.
Two of my favorite vampire films came out the same year and couldn't be more different. It was "The Lost Boys" and "Near Dark." Maybe you could do "Near Dark" for Halloween, although it is hard to see these days. The other classic vampire film from the 80's you should see is "Fright Night" which presents the legend of the vampire in it's own modern way as well.
Near Dark is one of my favorites. It's not for everyone though. Most of my friends hate it. I love Mae too much to hate it ..
I recommended them Near Dark a long time ago, and I'm still waiting for a reaction. It's so good!
Near Dark might need to wait until after baby Schmitt 🤢 I might be a lot for Sam.
Kinda cool that Near Dark has half the cast of Aliens in it 😂
@@daave365 Well, it was directed by Cameron's then-wife Kathryn Bigelow...
You guys should watch 'Flatliners'. A quite suspenseful thriller with Kiefer Sutherland. The 90's original that is. Haven't seen the more recent remake/sequel.
Daniel: "I wonder if theyve killed a vampire or if theyre all talk?"
Me: "Wait til they crap their pants in a half hour or so." 🤣🤣🤣
In the comics written after the films, Grandpa is revealed to be a half-vampire and his "soda" is actually blood.
Corey Feldman patterned his voice after Rambo.
Classic 80s movie, one that everyone should say they’ve seen! Now you have.
Fright Night for another great 80's vampire flick, and License to Drive for an awesome 80's movie with both Haim and Feldman.
The concept for this movie grew out of the question, "What if the Lost Boys in Peter Pan were actually vampires?". The dog's name (Nanook) is a reference to Nana, the dog in the Disney adaptation of Peter Pan.
The original pitch was what if Peter Pan's lost boys didn't age because they were vampires.
'Ripped Sax Player' is Tim Cappello. He actually toured with Tina Turner for a while. 'I Still Believe' is his only partial hit that I know of. I've secretly loved that song since I was a kid.
Yes! Not to many react to this movie , cult classic ! I have a half sleeve dedicated to this movie ❤
The wonderful Dianne Wiest (Lucy) had a diverse "Mom" career in the 80's. She was burdened with a self-righteous preacher husband and community in "Footloose" (1984), and then she had to deal with vampires coming after her kids! She fared much better two years later as the less-troubled Mom in "Parenthood" (1989) with Steve Martin. Parenthood has a great script and a magnificent cast.
She's great in "Parenthood" and earned an Oscar nomination.
i didn't know how much i wanted to see you two do a review of this movie! Even better that neither of you knew it or had seen it!
Wonderful reaction as always!
Pure 80s entertainment and so rewatchable!
For more great movies with The Coreys, give License to Drive (1988) & Dream a little Dream (1989) a try.
While License to Drive has some elements that have not aged great, I still find it an 80's teen classic. Dream A Little Dream is a weird one (and it's even weirder sequel) but they are fun watches.
This movie was my whole childhood. I would wear red bandannas like Edgar Frog. I’d be constantly quoting the film (I knew every line)
It still has a special place in my heart thank you for watching it
I was living in Santa Cruz and selling tickets at the Boardwalk when this came out, so seeing the movie in the theater was extra fun for me. Still one of my favorite vampire movies. And a legendary 80s soundtrack.
That's cool.
Two vampire recommendations:
1. Fright Night (the 80's version)
2. My bestfriend is a vampire (hidden gem, comedy)
I'm now convinced that you guys have a direct feed to my brain! This last month or so has been my top ten fav films! And now you watch my number 2 all time fav movie! Keep up the amazing work!
“You’re a creature of the night, Michael. You wait til Mom finds out!” Typical younger brother!!
Google lost boys saxophone guy. When the film came out, the don't-invite-a-vampire-inside thing was a much more obscure vampire rule that audiences could easily have missed.
By the way, Kiefer and Keanu starred in a film together in the 80's called "Brotherhood of Justice". In an interesting twist, Kiefer is the good guy in that film. It's a Very Serious Teen Movie, really fun 80's stuff. :D
Good movie a very typical '80s TV movie, Billy Zane co-stars.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Also stars Lori Loughlin in the second movie she did with Keanu. :)
Fun Fact: Jason Patric is the son of Jason Miller; who’s most known for his role as Father Karras in The Exorcist.
And his maternal grandfather was Jackie Gleason,
Yep! Here I am! I'm all in. 😃 Can't wait to watch. And........GO! THANKS
my funniest thing about keifer sutherland is I mistook him for his father, so when I watched 24 I kept waiting for donald to show up untill I realized my mistake.
The soundtrack is fire. To today, I STILL have this in ny ALL-TIME FAVORITES. It's a Corey's movie (both boyos) and people never notice Ted from "Bill and Ted's Awesome Adventure" is Marco the vampire with curly hair.
The movie started with a Doors song “People are Strange” - so the poster was a homage to The Doors. A movie with Bradley Cooper called Van Helsing explains many of the rules of vampires and werewolves (also includes Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde as monsters).
That was Hugh Jackman not Bradley Cooper
Believe it or not, this was my very first horror film. At first, i thought The Lost Boys was straight up scary but after my first time watching it for the first time, it was a very fun film, aside from being scary, it's also a very hilarious and wild. I loved it not only for it's blend of horror and comedy, but for for the way it introduced me to the horror genre.
This is why us 80s people laugh about the twighlight stuff. We have the lost boys and fright night!!
And the funny ones with jim Carrey (once bitten) and Dracula dead and loving it from the early 90s
The muscle man with the sax was with Tina turner during the 80s and early 90s. Very talented
I think the Jim Morrison mural, especially with how it crossfaded with Michael's face, was supposed to be about the "live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse", "immortality" sort of celebrity cult around gorgeous people who died young and thus never had to grow old
Anyone remember The Wraith? really good movie. so undereated. charlie sheen was in it too.
“I smell a pig. How about you Gutterboy?”
“I smell French fries, but that don’t make no sense “
Fantastic film.
I saw this film at the Dream Theater (a very _boho_ theater with couches and pillows to sit on in some areas) when I was stationed in Monterey, CA, which is just down the Monterey Bay coast from Santa Cruz on the PCH, where the movie was primarily filmed. Santa Carla, Santa Cruz, you get it. About a 45-minute drive away and a great park on the boardwalk, which you saw in the film, I had a lot of wonderful memories made there as a 20- 21 y/o. This movie is inextricably woven into that magical time in my life. I got to know Kiefer a little bit years later after I moved to LA, through running into him at bars and a bit of side work we did together years later while he was also doing *_24,_* and we talked about that experience at a premiere. He's a great, solid dude, and I'd love to run into him again. So this was a real blast from the past for me. Loved this reaction-great job, guys!
"The Corey's" Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. They were in a few movies together.
Michael is actor Jason Patric, son of Jason Miller, the priest in "The Exorcist," and grandson of actor and entertainer Jackie Gleason ("The Honeymooners").
As a vampire, let me dispel the myth about daylight. We can move about in the day......we're just sluggish. 🌒🧛♀🤪
Tim Capello is the sax player and he’s iconic because of this movie and playing with Tina Turner, he’s a legend
Great film, awesome soundtrack!! Early Joel is so good
Between 1985 and 1987 three iconic vampire movies were released. This movie and Near Dark were both released in 87, but the best of all was Fright Night , from 85. Please check out the other two if you can.
Great reaction guys, I'm glad you enjoyed it! If you want another fun 80's vampire movie you should do the original Fright Night.
Yes !!!
Peter Vincent agrees🦇
I remember seeing this in the theatres...it was so much fun!! 2 years later Bill and Ted release and I got so excited when I saw Alex Winter (Marko from Lost Boys) playing Bill!! Another awesome movie from the 80's! I had the biggest crush on Kiefer Sutherland and the 2 Coreys. And yes...the 80's were amazing. Best music and some pretty awesome movies! Great reaction guys!!
I LOVE The Lost Boys. It is so good. The soundtrack is amazing. The cast is fantastic. It's just so good to me!
7:07 "NICE."
nice. my compliments to the editor.
I love everything about this movie. I saw it in the theatre multiple times when it was released. I was *obsessed* with the soundtrack (I was dying when Sam said, "This is like the third time we've heard this song!" and he was like, "What?"). As for the end, when you were a little confused about Max saying, "If you invite a vampire in, it renders you powerless", I always took it to mean that you couldn't use any tricks like mirrors or holy water to discern if they were a vampire, but obviously if you stabbed them in the heart or cut off their head, they would die. So, in the final battle, since the tribe wasn't invited in, the holy water did affect them. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING ME BACK TO THE 80s!!!
Classic 80’s movie-from the fashion, hair, music, cheesy story, teen heartthrobs. Just an awesome throwback memory. Thanks for reacting to it
That buff Sax player is Tim Cappello and he is a legend!
A crazy movie with a young Kiefer Sutherland and a very young Reese Witherspoon. FREEWAY.
I mean, now you've started, you just *have* to complete the classic trifecta of 80's vampire movies (Fright Night/Lost Boys/Near Dark), right? 😋
Would you guys watch "Licence to drive" ? its so funny and has Corey haim and Corey Feldman in it too
Wow, totally forgot about that one, good call.
@@MrDabulls23 Yeah i know right lol it would kill these 2 with laughter i think
Worked in a movie theater in the summer of ‘87. Watched this 5x a day, every day, for a month.
Still love it.
Saxophone guy, Timmy Cappello is still playing his saxophone! Definitely take a listen to the Lost Boys soundtrack, its quite awesome!
I always assumed Grandpa was a half vampire and only drank animal blood, hence the taxidermy and his special drink.
That would explain him being balls deep in the widow Johnson at like 90 years old 🤔
Fun fact - so the girl, Star, she played Bill Paxtons new wife in Twister!
The gore coming out of nowhere. That was my thought in "From Dusk til' Dawn" from Quentin Tarantino.
I was in middle school when it came out and loved it. It’s still one my favorite vampire movies. The sax player is a musician I saw in person when I went to see Tina Turner in concert in the 90’s. He was full of energy just like in the movie and so much fun to watch. He’s a very talented musician.
I was about to go to sleep then I see you 2 uploaded a reaction to one of my favorite movies of all time. That changes things. Haha.
"License to Drive" is another great 80's Corey Haim & Corey Feldman movie. It's hilarious!
I was excited you and Samantha reacted to this movie. Lost Boys is one my favorite movies from the 80's growing up and my top vampire movie of all time.
Samantha pointing out the "Cry Little Sister" song a number of times to you during the movie was comical 😂
Continue the great work with your channel and continue bringing smiles to all that follow you both!
This movie was a favorite among my friends when we were kids! We watched it over and over. It was the first sort of adult themed movies we were allowed to see and we LOVED it!
Love this movie. You can't talk about 80s movies without this one.
Samantha....The eighties WERE fun! Low budget movies in the eighties were indicated by lots of T & A.
“They’re only noodles, Michael”
That final line is so relevant today. Countless times I've thought "So and so is a great place to live, except for all the [horrible thing]".
Born in 83. Older brother 11 years old. This movie lasted for ever as a horror classic
this is my favorite vampire movie i seen it so many times i never get tired of it they dont make movies like this anymore my second favorite vampire movie has to be fright night 1985
Grandpa was an OG. He always knew about the vampires. He had those long pole stakes ready in case of a vampire emergency. Great reaction to a classic movie.
*Common tropes for becoming a vampire:*
•Bitten/killed by a vampire. You then rise a vampire.
•Must be bitten 3 times (3rd time kills you), then you rise a vampire.
•You have to be bitten _and_ drink from the vampire that bit you. Then you become a vampire (I believe we really only start to see this one in media from the 80's on¹).
_"To make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood and then you have to suck their blood._ _It's a whole big sucking thing."_ ~Buffy
These are not the _only ways_ depicted in film and TV, just common ones.
*EDIT:* 32:47 Had *Grandpa* said anything when they arrived, do you think anyone would have taken him seriously? 🧛🏻♂️
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¹ ─ 🤔 Now, that's somewhat anecdotal. So, I'm gonna have to look into that further.
Gem, both scary at times and funny at times. Was fun to see you and Samantha break it down as you watched.