I didn’t get to see THE LOST BOYS in the theater when it originally came out. I read about it in FANGORIA. I saw the television ads for it. And when it released on VHS, I immediately rented it. It’s one of many films I didn’t get to see in the theater when they first came out. Being a kid with only one parent who drives, and having that parent hate the movie-going experience, sucks, I tell ya. I’m making up for that now, though. Or I have, to a large extent, made up for it, I should say. As an adult I’ve been able to see many of those film on the big screen. This past weekend, thanks to the Sand Mountain Twin Drive-In in Boaz, Alabama, I finally got to see THE LOST BOYS. It was a long drive for me, but I would’ve made it even if it had been twice the distance. That’s how badly I wanted to see this movie at the drive-in.
Time travel is possible, even if it only takes place in your mind and in your soul. I traveled back to 1987 this past Saturday night. I had the experience I was denied as a kid. And it was glorious.
Personally my favourite vampire movies of the 1980s are: “My Best Friend Is A Vampire” (which presaged “True Blood” in depicting the “undead” as persecuted outsiders rather than ruthless predators on humanity) and “Near Dark”!
Good choices.