The Lost Boys 1987

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: Schumacher`s sputtering, short-term approach to the material is a disappointment, because there's something in it that ought to make for a good movie, and from time to time makes The Lost Boys good enough. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times: There's always room for fancy trash, and this movie -- about a gang of punk vampires terrorizing the new kids in town -- seems capable of providing some. Then the characters open their mouths. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: The Lost Boys, which attempts to be funny while preserving the shock value of the vampire legend, aims somewhat higher... and misses. Read more

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer: Schumacher falls far short of the talent for pop wit that Joe Dante showed in Gremlins and The Howling. Read more

Caryn James, New York Times: It laughs at the form it embraces, adds a rock-and-roll soundtrack and, if you share its serious-satiric attitude, manages to be very funny. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: When everything is all over, there's nothing to leave the theater with -- no real horrors, no real dread, no real imagination -- just technique at the service of formula. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Directed with a cavalier disregard for intelligibility, this has to be one of the most anaemic vampire flicks ever made. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A horrifically dreadful vampire teensploitation entry. Read more

David Edelstein, Village Voice: Killing bloodsuckers was enough to make Fright Night a hit, and it will probably do the same for the crass, obvious Lost Boys. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: An exhilarating hybrid of horror and suburban comedy. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It starts slow, but finishes fast with some clever plot twists. In the end, all is not lost with these boys. Read more