Before Anne Rice’s gothic horror novel based on young
vampires was immortalized in a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and long
before pre-adolescents became obsessed with the Twilight series of books and films, there was The Lost Boys, one of the first films to deal with teenaged
vampires in a dramatic way. Once Bitten
and Fright Night were both comedies
released two years earlier. Director Joel Schumacher made The Lost Boys in the middle of a stint of making several films
focused on young people. I consider it his best period as a director.
