The lost boys à
Basic movie notes:
Rated a 15
It was a massive mainstream Hollywood movie by Warner Bros.
American hybrid: horror, comedy, love story.
It’s a late 1980’s popular culture film.
Had one of the most famous straplines ‘Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never
die. It's fun to be a vampire’.
Opening of film à
The repertoire of elements of
the opening, ‘flying over the setting a night’.
In the opening there is a choir
of children singing the Ten Commandments which is the only religious aspect of
the film, and is repeated throughout different parts of the film.
The setting is conventional for a horror movie of the time
to be set in an American holiday resort, creating an ironic set of
juxtaposition.
Portrayal of the vampires and Michael à
There are a gang of vampires which we have not yet seen in
the vampire movies.
The vampires look like trouble making, white male teenagers.
The vampires/gang members are anti-authority, which we see
as their first kill is the security guard who kicked them off of the boardwalk.
Michael is torn between being safe with his family and being
part of the rebellious lost boys.
Michael is the personification of a life of sex, drugs and
alcohol.
Star is a half vampire and essentially just a love interest.
The fear at the time was teenage delinquents coming from
non-religious broken homes, and white teens listening to black rap.
The intertextuality of the film is between the 1950’s rebel
without a cause chicken run scene and the motorbike race scene.
Michael dresses in a typical teenage rebellion ‘costume’, a
black leather jacket; oil stained white t-shirt and blue jeans. This also helps
show the intertextuality within films such as grease.
The ‘gang’ of vampires was modelled on the guns and roses
band.
Vampire’s lair à
The ‘lair’ is a hotel that was on a fault line which got
swallowed into the earth by an earthquake.
There are posters of the ’27 club’ put up on the walls.
The floor of the ‘lair’ is littered with empty alcohol
bottles.
They smoke spliffs in the ‘lair’.
It is like a teenage boy’s bedroom but on a grander scale.
Frogg brothers (Vampire hunters) à
They are two teenage boys who run a comic shop.
Everything they know about vampire’s they have learned
through reading comic books.
They are not religious at all, which is wiping out the
religious aspect of vampires needing to be slayed by religious people.
It is a vampire film that references what happens in other
vampire films/books by using the Frogg brothers to do this.
The Frogg brothers make jokes about the repertoire of
elements in vampire films.
Kieffer Sutherland à
He personally added in the shot of the ‘head’ vampire crying
to the camera after getting burned in the sun.
It shows that the vampire was human once, and can still be
in touch with his human side.
This scene tries to add sympathy for the vampires, suggesting
that they don’t actually want this lifestyle themselves.
Feminist criticisms of the film à
The film just uses Star as a good looking sex object who
looks after the child, and the film doesn’t even try to hide this aspect.
The film also suggests that mothers are weak, and they NEED
a man to help save their rebellious children.
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