The Lost Boys
One of my favourite 80’s movies was The Lost Boys, once I got into it. I was 13 when it came out, and my sister queenstartiger took me to see it one afternoon that summer. I was all about Corey Feldman at the time, so anything he was in was a must-see. I know, I know. Yeesh. If I only knew then what I know now...
By the time the opening credits started to roll, I wanted to leave. I was scared! Not only had Corey Feldman not appeared on the screen yet, but the scary vampire David (who was that bad guy Ace Merrill in Stand By Me) had bitten right into a bald guy's head and blood squirted out! It was about all my thirteen-year-old psyche could take. I'd be having nightmares for weeks!
queenstartiger had a better grip on reality, and was not going to waste the price of admission, especially since I had begged her to go to this movie. So we watched the whole thing. Looking at it now, I think Geez, what happened to these guys? Only Scary Vampire David (the gorgeous Keifer Sutherland) has a worthy career at this point. I didn't know how to back a winning horse back then, evidently.
And the soundtrack? Not so bad. Well, actually Roger Daltrey's cover of Elton John's Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me is laughable, but the INXS and Jimmy Barnes contributions are good, and Echo and the Bunnymen do a more than respectable cover of the Doors' People are Strange.
And where are you now, Gerard McMann? You and your ghostly-voiced children's choir really made this soundtrack for me with Cry Little Sister (Theme from the Lost Boys).
By the time the opening credits started to roll, I wanted to leave. I was scared! Not only had Corey Feldman not appeared on the screen yet, but the scary vampire David (who was that bad guy Ace Merrill in Stand By Me) had bitten right into a bald guy's head and blood squirted out! It was about all my thirteen-year-old psyche could take. I'd be having nightmares for weeks!
queenstartiger had a better grip on reality, and was not going to waste the price of admission, especially since I had begged her to go to this movie. So we watched the whole thing. Looking at it now, I think Geez, what happened to these guys? Only Scary Vampire David (the gorgeous Keifer Sutherland) has a worthy career at this point. I didn't know how to back a winning horse back then, evidently.
And the soundtrack? Not so bad. Well, actually Roger Daltrey's cover of Elton John's Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me is laughable, but the INXS and Jimmy Barnes contributions are good, and Echo and the Bunnymen do a more than respectable cover of the Doors' People are Strange.
And where are you now, Gerard McMann? You and your ghostly-voiced children's choir really made this soundtrack for me with Cry Little Sister (Theme from the Lost Boys).