herbiehancock

No 438 - The Lost Boys Director - Joel Schumacher I find vampires fascinating. There are so many different ways to tell the story, from the sublime to the ridiculous . I love that there are so many ways to tell the story, that although there are similarities, no two vampire films are alike with different powers and different weaknesses. In this list we'll look at a number of very different Vampires ranging from the ethereal beauty of Anne Rice's vampires to the brutish Monsters at the Titty Twister. We begin with Lost Boys, looking at Vampires as 80's heart throbs and icons. Where the key word is 80's. It seems that in order to become a vampire at Santa Carla you have to have the most atrocious mullet - but not only that, it seems that this entire film is a celebration of the 80s, with a fantastic cast - including the Coreys - both Haim and Feldman and with none other than Bill S Preston esq (I never knew Alex Winter did anything outside of Bill and Ted), and a...