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Fictional Places You Don’t Want To Visit (205 movies items)"Santa Carla, California Santa Carla is located on the north end of Monterey Bay, California, based on the actual city of Santa Cruz, California. Why you wouldn’t want to visit: “The One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach...all the damn vampires.""
Silence is Golden
It really is fun to be a vampire...
“I do find Joel Schumacher very hit and miss, when he's good, he is very good, when he is bad, he is very bad. The Lost Boys is a contender alongside Veronica Guerin as the best of his movies. Of course the feel is very 1980s, hence I can understand why some may find it dated. However, the 80s feel adds to the charm of The Lost Boys to me. The film looks very stylish and has a killer soundtrack, my personal favourite soundtrack of Schumacher's movies actually. The script has some cheesy moments, but it is still very entertaining, and the story is swiftly and intelligently told. Schumacher's direction is one of his more secure directing jobs too, no heavy-handedness, no over-saturated colour or frenzied camera work here. The characters are very likable, especially Corey Haim's, and the actin” read more
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films: 1986-1987 (46 movies items)" Directed by: Joel Schumacher Produced by: Harvey Bernhard Written by: Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer, and James Jeremias Cinematography: Michael Chapman Edited by: Robert Brown Music by: Thomas Newman Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures"
Childhood Memories (35 tv items)" Wikipedia: The Lost Boys is a 1987 American teen black comedy horror film directed by Joel Schumacher. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. M. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, who, like the vampires, never grow up. Most of the film was shot in Santa Cruz, California. My memories: My favourite film when I was twelve, I'd been fascinated with The Lost Boys since I'd seen a poster (above) on the wall of an older boys bedroom when I was a little kid. It's the perfect"
Movies the giraffe watched in 2020: July (30 movies items)"Re-watch - July 17th I think this was my first time seeing The Lost Boys on the big screen. It's possible I'm forgetting seeing it as a midnight movie at some point, but I don't think I am. Looking back at the last time I watched it I'm not sure why I came down so hard on it. Perhaps I wasn't in the right mood, or maybe this time around I was just in a better headspace in the wake of The Evil Dead. Whatever the case, I do still think the film puts too much weight on style over substance, but "
