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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   31,298 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Janice Fischer (story) &
James Jeremias (story) ...
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Release Date:
31 July 1987 (USA) more
Tagline:
Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire. more
Plot:
After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(149 articles)
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User Reviews:
Funny, fast and fun to watch. more (281 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Génération perdue (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Izgubljeni djecaci (Croatia) (video title) [hr]
Jóvenes ocultos (Spain) [es]
La generación perdida (Chile) [es]
Os Rapazes da Noite (Portugal) [pt]
Os garotos Perdidos (Brazil) [pt]
Ragazzi perduti (Italy) [it]
Ta paidia tis nyhtas (Greece) [el]
The Lost Boys (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
97 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35mm prints)
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Trivia:
The names of the Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan, are a reference to Edgar Allan Poe, the well-known writer of horror fiction. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Sam enters Michael's room after his first encounter with the Lost Boys, Sam opens the blinds to let light in. A second later, light starts pouring in from the bottom right corner of the screen from a mistimed light. more
Quotes:
Star: [after Max is killed] It's over. It's over.
Laddie: [Runs down the stairs] Star! Star!
Star: Laddie!
[They hug]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Muggers: The Movie (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
I Still Believe more

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37 out of 44 people found the following review useful.
Funny, fast and fun to watch., 9 May 2003
9/10
Author: Aaron1375 from Alabama

This movie to me is more of a comedy than a horror. The scenes I remember most are the funny ones. Not to say it is a pure comedy, it isn't. It is though a very good vampire tale. The cast is superb, even Corey Haim and Feldman. This is definitely the best movie they did together. This one has a family of three (a mother and two sons) moving into her dad's home. They go around town and the younger one hears from some comic book workers that there are vampires in town. The older son is in fact being recruited by said vampires and is already becoming one after drinking a strange liquid. All in all I love this film and it is one of my favorite vampire flicks. Good mixture of action, horror, and especially for me...comedy. This movie is so very well made that you will find it hard to believe that the director of this would go on to make the pretty bad "Batman and Robin". This movie though is good, and has one of the best ending lines of any movie.

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