

Sam and the Frog Brothers suspect Max of being the head vampire, but while Max is over at Sam's house to date Lucy they observe that he has a reflection.ĭavid tries to provoke Michael into killing but Michael repeatedly refuses. Sam deduces that, as Michael has not yet killed, he is a "half-vampire" and his condition is reversible upon the head vampire's death. Sam is terrified, but Michael convinces him that he is not yet a vampire and needs his help. He develops a craving for blood and attempts to attack his brother Sam, but is stopped by Sam's dog Nanook.

Michael begins to undergo a change his eyes are sensitive to sunlight, the smell of food revolts him, and his reflection becomes partly transparent. During a meal in their hangout, an abandoned luxury hotel sunken beneath the cliff by the 1906 earthquake, Star warns Michael that an offered bottle is blood, but he disregards her and drinks from it. They challenge him with several tests of courage and offer him initiation into the gang. Through Star, Michael is drawn into the orbit of David's motorcycle gang. They give Sam horror comics to teach him about the undead threat they claim has infiltrated the town. In the local comic book store, Sam meets brothers Edgar and Alan Frog, a pair of vampire hunters. Michael becomes fascinated by Star, a beautiful girl he spots on the boardwalk, though she seems to be with David Powers, the leader of a youth biker gang. Lucy gets a job at a video store owned by bachelor Max Lawrence. Michael Emerson and his younger brother Sam move with their recently divorced mother Lucy to the fictional small beach town of Santa Carla, California, to live with her eccentric father, Michael and Sam's grandfather. The success of the film has spawned a franchise with two sequels ( Lost Boys: The Tribe and Lost Boys: The Thirst), and two comic book series. Pictures on Jand was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $32 million against a production budget of $8.5 million.

The Lost Boys was released and produced by Warner Bros. Most of the film was shot in Santa Cruz, California. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, who, like vampires, never grow up. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. The film's ensemble cast includes Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Billy Wirth, Brooke McCarter, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. The Lost Boys is a 1987 American supernatural black comedy horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Harvey Bernhard with a screenplay written by Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer and James Jeremias, from a story by Fischer and Jeremias.
