The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys

Released - 1987
Genre - Horror, Comedy, Thriller
Director - Joel Schumacher
Starring - Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman

A divorced mother with two sons moves in with her father in California to start a new life. The sons, Michael and Sam, manage to get into trouble almost immediately. Michael chases a cute girl he sees at the pier and ends up hanging out with a gang of vampires who want to turn him into one of them, while Sam meets the local vampire hunters at the comic book store. This is quality eighties cheese with a great cast and soundtrack, it predates Buffy by a few years but had an obvious influence on the move towards hip, young vamps. I loved this film as a youngster and while it has dated a bit it is still a lot of fun.

Gore - some biting and cool vampire deaths, nothing too nasty

Vampires - the original good looking teen vampires who go all demon faced when they vamp out