Music Box - Friday and Saturday,
Midnight
In addition to being the first movie
where Corey Feldman and Corey Haim (R.I.P.) appear together, THE LOST
BOYS is also a darn good time. In a rarity for a horror film from the
'80's, the comedic elements work to lighten the mood without bringing
too much cheese. Much as with Schumacher's previous movie targeted towards
teenagers, ST. ELMO'S FIRE, the production team doesn't cut corners.
Recently pubescent vampires (Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, and Jami
Gertz) and soon-to-be pubescent comic store geeks (Haim and Feldman)
get the adult treatment as realistic characters, without a comic foil
in the bunch. Though the film was shot in and around Santa Cruz, the
fictional location of San Carla, CA, is adeptly rendered as a dark and
downtrodden small town, and feels like it could exist on the edge of
the Salton Sea. With it's run-down boardwalk, gang problems, and mysterious
disappearances, this is not the "Sunny California" that was (and
is?) a staple of the movies. Though the film lags a bit during the third
act, the night-time scenes of the amusement park and the vampires' lair
are dead on, and the soundtrack features an excellent cover of "People
are Strange" performed by Echo and the Bunnymen. (1987, 97 min, 35mm) JH - Cine-File.info
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